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UPDATE: This is what happens when you print a stranger in the ass.

The good news first. Glen David Gold, the absolutely brilliant author of Carter Beats the Devil, one of my favourite books of the last 10 years, has finally produced a new novel, Sunnyside. And it sounds great.

Now the bad news. In what could be an unprecedented move for such a long-awaited novel, the book's UK publisher has decided to sell the hardback exclusively through Waterstone's for the first few months it is on sale: this means you won't be able to buy it from Amazon, from independents, from Borders - from anywhere except Waterstone's. The Bookseller reports that Hodder decided to work with Waterstone's "because it got so behind Carter - all the booksellers took it to their heart - and had the lion's share of the sales".

via The Guardian