A new collection of stories from the late Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; a début by a former Macmillan, Penguin and Hachette marketer; and Richard Ford’s new novel were among the rights deals signed this week.

At Canongate, senior editor Francis Bickmore bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding...

Taking a "look in from the outside" on publishing during her maternity leave last year was a refreshing change of pace for Kate Mills. Caught up in the hurly-burly of the trade, the Orion deputy fiction publisher says it is easy to forget that the public at large is not swept up by the deals or authors moving houses, and doesn't...