PUBLISHING / AUDIO NEWS
W. F. Howes, RBmedia’s UK publishing brand, has picked up the audio rights for Marek Kohn’s Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground, to coincide with a major BBC One dramatisation inspired by the cult classic.
Published in paperback by Granta in 2003, and set to be re-issued this autumn, the book takes a tour through the scandals and moral panics in Britain that followed the end of the First World War, as drug use - especially of morphine and cocaine - became a national menace.
The six-part TV dramatisation of Dope Girls will be produced by Bad Wolf (His Dark Materials) and will star Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown) Elidh Fisher (The Power), Eliza Scanlen (Little Women) and Umi Myers (Bob Marley: One Love).
The UK and Commonwealth audiobook rights were acquired from Isabella Depiazzi, Senior Rights and Acquisitions Manager at Granta by Kay Farrell, Acquisitions Editor at W.F. Howes in a competitive auction. She commented: “Dope Girls is a real hidden gem of a book that has surprisingly never been published in audio format. Marek Kohn’s enlightening and detailed account of how a nation’s drug problem, and burgeoning nightlife industry, was born, brings the seedy streets of Soho to life in gloriously vivid colour. We are delighted with this acquisition and look forward to publishing our audio edition at a time when interest around Dope Girls, and its big-budget TV dramatisation, will be reaching fever pitch.”
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