Literary agency David Luxton Associates is partnering with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) to launch the first UK literary festival dedicated to sports writing.

The London Sports Writing Festival will take place at Lord's from 17th to 21st October, with the London Evening Standard also supporting the eventl.

The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency has appointed David Haviland to build a fiction list, with the agency having previously specialised in non-fiction.

It is the first appointment in 25 years for the agency, which is also looking to take on placing UK rights for American and Australian agencies.

Haviland is an experienced...

Authors Tony Parsons and Jane Fallon have said Curtis Brown’s new digital self-publishing initiative CB Creative Books is an “exciting” way to penetrate the difficult US market.

The programme will see upwards of 200 titles released this month as e-books and print-on-demand by literary agency Curtis Brown through...

The European Commission has begun the process of dismantling the agency model after finding publishers HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette Livre, and Apple "engaged in a concerted practice" to raise e-book prices or prevent the emergence of lower prices across Europe. The commission has reached agreements that...