Picador to publish eight backlist titles by Percival Everett

Picador has acquired eight backlist titles by Percival Everett, including The Trees, Dr No and Telephone.

Publisher Mary Mount acquired UK and Commonwealth plus e-book rights from Melanie Jackson Agency, LLC, and RCW. The other books acquired are So Much Blue, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Damned if I Do, I Am Not Sidney Poitier and Assumption.

Dr No and The Trees will be published on 5th October 2023 and continue with the remaining six into the spring of 2024 ahead of Mantle’s publication of Everett’s new novel, James.

Everett is the author of nearly 30 books, many of which have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker prize, and numerous PEN awards. He has received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Centre USA Award for Fiction. He lives in LA.

The Trees was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. Everett’s most recent novel, Dr No, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Everett was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize earlier this year.

Mount said: “It is a huge thrill and honour to be publishing some of Percival Everett’s extraordinary backlist at Picador. Percival is one of the most exhilarating novelists currently at work in the English language and we cannot wait to bring these novels to a huge new readership both in the UK and around the world.”