{"id":61701,"date":"2021-10-01T18:52:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61701"},"modified":"2021-10-01T18:52:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:52:25","slug":"de-waals-extraordinary-memoir-goes-to-tinder-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61701","title":{"rendered":"De Waal&#8217;s &#8216;extraordinary&#8217; memoir goes to Tinder Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/kit-de-waals-memoir-goes-tinder-press-1281123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>De Waal&#8217;s &#8216;extraordinary&#8217; memoir goes to Tinder Press<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bookseller: At the Heart of Publishing since 1858<\/a><br \/>\n2021-09-28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saltounite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Heloise Wood<\/strong><\/a>, Deputy News Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/kit-de-waals-memoir-goes-tinder-press-1281123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large\/public\/field\/image\/Saturday.jpg?itok=FM1EpP9H\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tinderpress.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinder Press<\/a> has landed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KitdeWaal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kit de Waal\u2019s<\/a> memoir about growing up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Birmingham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> in the Sixties and Seventies, <em>Without Warning and Only Sometimes<\/em>, which she described as &#8220;the story I always wanted to tell&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachette.co.uk\/contributor\/mary-anne-harington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary-Anne Harrington<\/a> acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commonwealth_of_Nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commonwealth<\/a> rights from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jounwin.co.uk\/about-jo-unwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jo Unwin<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jounwin.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JULA<\/a>. <em>Without Warning and Only Sometimes<\/em> will be published on 18th August 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The memoir charts de Waal\u2019s unpredictable childhood, growing up mixed race in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moseley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moseley, Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harrington said: \u201cI have been desperate to work with Kit for years and knew she had the most wonderful story to tell, so it\u2019s both an enormous thrill and an honour to be working with her on <em>Without Warning and Only Sometimes<\/em>. Kit takes us into the mind and heart of a girl raised to believe the world was going to end in 1975, who was never allowed to celebrate Christmas, and whose father squirreled away every penny he had to build a house in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Kitts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St Kitts<\/a> that his wife and children were never to see.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/kit-de-waals-memoir-goes-tinder-press-1281123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De Waal&#8217;s &#8216;extraordinary&#8217; memoir goes to Tinder Press The Bookseller: At the Heart of Publishing since 1858 2021-09-28 Heloise Wood, Deputy News Editor Tinder Press has landed Kit de Waal\u2019s memoir about growing up in Birmingham in the Sixties and Seventies, Without Warning and Only Sometimes, which she described as &#8220;the story I always wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,10],"tags":[15923,81,32035,32039,24639,32038,32037,28048,28047,32036],"class_list":["post-61701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-birmingham","tag-england","tag-heloise-wood","tag-jo-unwin","tag-kit-de-waal","tag-mary-anne-harrington","tag-moseley","tag-the-bookseller","tag-the-bookseller-at-the-heart-of-publishing-since-1858","tag-tinder-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61702,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61701\/revisions\/61702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}