Hg2, publisher of Hedonist’s Guides, is planning to shake up the restaurant guidebook sector with two new autumn releases. A Hedonist’s Guide to . . . Eat London and Eat New York (both £9.99) will be based on Hg2’s surveys of 150 chefs, restaurateurs, sommeliers and other food industry experts. The...

Photographic publisher and archivist the Francis Frith Collection is to move to digital print on demand (p.o.d.) for all its books by the end of the year.

The firm, which has 800 local history titles on its list, plans to begin selling all its titles in p.o.d. format by the beginning of 2009 in response to the “changes in the book...

James Patterson is extending his brand into graphic novels, with Daniel X: Alien Hunter due from Century in October. Patterson, who already authors crime and romance titles, and the Maximum Ride series for children, is writing the graphic novel in collaboration with artist Leopoldo Gout from New York production company Curious Pictures...

Julia Wisdom at HarperCollins has bought British Commonwealth rights in a period crime trilogy from journalist and reviewer Mark Sanderson, who writes the Sunday Telegraph’s Literary Life column.

The deal was done through Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown, who said that HC “snapped up” the books on the basis of a...