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Studiocanal’s Red Production Company has secured the rights to Irish novelist John Boyne’s latest critically-acclaimed novel “The Echo Chamber,” after a competitive auction.

The novel will become a 10-part returnable series, which Boyne will adapt for screen. Boyne is the author of 2006 novel “The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas,” which has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been adapted for cinema, theatre, ballet and opera.

“The Echo Chamber” follows five days in the gilded lives of the Cleverley family as their respective worlds come crashing down. The novel topped the bestseller charts in Ireland on publication earlier this year.

The deal was negotiated by Emily Hayward Whitlock and Robert Taylor at the Artists Partnership in association with Simon Trewin.

Sarah Doole, CEO Red Production Company said: “I have always loved John Boyne’s beautiful writing, but ‘The Echo Chamber’ was the most brilliant surprise. It is...

Literary agents nm2250545 autoSimon Trewin[/link] and Elizabeth Sheinkman have joined William Morris Endeavor's London office, the agency announced on Monday. Trewin joins the agency as partner and head of its U.K. literary department. Trewin has had stints at United Agents and Peters, Fraser and Dunlop; he's worked with clients such as Andrew Millier, Danny Wallace and Boy George. Sheinkman, whose last two stops were at Curtis Brown and the Elaine Markson Agency, has represented Steve Toltz, Marcel Therous and Melanie Gideon among others. Cathryn Summerhayes has been a literary agent out of that office since...

From Deadline|London editor Tim Adler: Andrew Motion, who was until recently the Queen’s poet (Her Majesty has her own bard) is writing a sequel to Treasure Island. Random House U.S. will bring out Return to Treasure Island with UK publisher Jonathan Cape over here in spring 2012. It’ll be interesting to see who goes for the movie rights. Disney has its own pirate franchise – and I guess it won’t be making a sequel to Treasure Planet anytime soon. Simon Trewin of United Agents sold the proposal by Motion, regarded as Britain’s greatest living poet. His book is bound to be better than the [...]...