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Rachel Taff

A STYLE MUST-READ BOOK FOR 2026 – the intoxicating thriller about cults, true crime and toxic mothers________________________’Impeccable’ Sunday Times’Darkly addictive’ Katy Hays’Fiction with a true-crime edge’ Janice Hallett________________________EVERYBODY KNOWS THE STORY. NOBODY KNOWS THE TRUTH…Lucy Golden is a true-crime icon, infamous for killing someone as a teenager while escaping a California cult.Twenty years later, still coasting on the success of the memoir she wrote after her acquittal, Lucy knows that her story is always just one news cycle away from obscurity, even as online tr …

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Atlantic Books acquires ‘a wake-up call’ to 21st century fascism

23 February 2026

Atlantic Books has acquired World English rights to This Is Fascism: A Wake-Up Call by political scientist Rosan Smits. Associate Publisher Shoaib Rokadiya acquired rights to the Dutch bestseller from Milou Klein Lankhorst at De Correspondent. It will publish as a paperback original on 11 June 2026. ‘Fascism is back. This time no swastikas, Nazi flags, or deadly bureaucracy, but MAGA hats, extremist memes, and the erosion of human rights. For the first time in modern history, far-right parties in some European countries have won a larger share of the votes than the Conservatives and the Social …

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