Random House has four titles on the six-strong Wellcome Trust Book Prize shortlist, with two books each given the nod from imprints Jonathan Cape and Chatto & Windus across the non-fiction and fiction lists.

Shortlisted for the £25,000 prize, which is open to works of fiction and non-fiction centred around medicine, are...

Chatto & Windus has acquired a fiction debut by journalist Will Cohu, whose family memoir The Wolf Pit will be published by the imprint this April.

Publishing director Clara Farmer bought world rights in the novel, Nothing But Grass, from Caroline Wood at Felicity Bryan Associates.

Farmer said: "Will...

Chatto & Windus has acquired a new book by "Domestic Goddess" Nigella Lawson, whipping up rights in Nigellissima: Italian Express.

Publishing director Clara Farmer bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Ed Victor, with a tie-in TV series currently in discussion with the BBC. Chatto will...

Chatto & Windus has released Nigella Lawson's festive title Nigella Christmas as an e-book, in full colour and with interactive features.

The digital edition will be available for all e-reading devices, with a r.r.p. of £26, and with Amazon.co.uk currently selling it at £14.01, W H Smith currently selling...