Publishing Deal - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

From today's Bookseller:

Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired a new novel by bestselling Shadow of the Wind author Carlos Ruiz Zafón.

W&N fiction publishing director Kirsty Duneath bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Australia, New Zealand and Canada.... to The Prisoner of Heaven, the third in the cycle of novels that began with The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game.

W&N will release as a hardback in the UK on 21st June 2012.

The book returns to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop, beginning one year after the close of The Shadow of the Wind when a mysterious stranger enters Sempere & Sons, looking for a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo.