John Murray/Hachette will publish Judas by Astrid Holleeder in the UK

John Murray is one of the world’s oldest imprints, going into its 250th year in 2018. A prestige brand, its authors have included Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, and Charles Darwin. A proud publisher of global stories, including The Invention of Nature , The Secret Lives of Colour , Black Box Thinking , Beasts of No Nation , Gary Kasparov and Randall Munroe, we also have a strong heritage in memoir – from Roald Dahl to Trevor Noah.