Orion Children's Books has acquired a new series for young readers by author and illustrator Kate Pankhurst, a descendant of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.

Commissioning editor Jenny Glencross bought world rights in her first acquisition in her new role with Mark Mills at Plum Pudding Illustration, in the Mariella Mystery...

Costa has launched a new award for a single, previously unpublished short story, with the winner to receive £3,500.

The Costa Short Story Award will run in association with the Costa Book Awards but will be judged independently of the main five-category system, with a separate judging panel to select a shortlist of six entries,...

Children's fiction series creators Working Partners and Beast Quest have been sold to two companies founded by Jeremy Banks and Tim Ricketts, the management team who built IP management specialists Coolabi, backed by Edge Performance VCT. 

Working Partners and Beast Quest have created series including Animal Ark, Heartland,...

Rajdeep Mukherjee has been appointed to the new position of senior vice-president, head of Pan Macmillan India, moving from his sales and marketing director role at the Harvard Business School Publishing.

Until three years ago, Mukherjee was Pan Macmillan's sales and marketing manager for the Indian sub-continent, a post he held...