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Even the Good Girls Will Cry

Melissa Auf der Maur

Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maur’s first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her bohemian home town, Montreal. Sensing Melissa’s talent, Billy Corgan recommended her to Courtney Love. Whisked from her local scene, Melissa joined Hole just after the deaths of Kurt Cobain and Hole’s prior bassist, Kristen Pfaff, with the just-widowed Courtney Love at the centre of it all. That was only the beginning of Melissa’s journey through alternative rock, a trip she undertook alongside 90s luminaries including Rufus Wainwright, Michae …

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Atlantic pre-empts Eve Binder’s funny, gorgeous debut novel about fertility, family and marriage, On One Condition

13 March 2026

Atlantic Fiction has pre-empted Eve Binder’s wise and hilarious debut On One Condition. Rachel Imrie, Editor at Atlantic and Corvus, bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Florence Rees at A.M. Heath. Atlantic will publish the novel as a lead title in summer 2027, backed with a significant marketing and publicity campaign. On One Condition follows Fran and Len, a happily child-free-by-choice couple, whose marriage is exploded when Len’s brother, Harry, asks Len to be a sperm donor. This huge request only snowballs into something more enormous, revealing long-kept secrets, ex …

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