The author of a graphic novel on the life of philosopher Bertrand Russell is one of the London Book Fair's visiting authors this year. Greek novelist Apostolos Doxiadis, the author of Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, has spent five years on the project, co-created with Christos H Papadimitriou and artist Alecos Papadatos. Titled...

Bloomsbury editor-in-chief Alexandra Pringle has won a five-publisher auction for UK and Commonwealth rights to a new novel from Lawrence Norfolk. John Saturnall's Feast was sold by Carole Blake at Blake Friedmann, with Carole Welch of Sceptre the underbidder. The sum was not disclosed but it was said to be a "substantial...

HarperCollins' Blue Door has bought world English-language rights to two novels by senior BBC foreign correspondent Jill McGivering. The first book, The Last Kestrel, is set in contemporary Helmand province and tells the story of a woman journalist's search for the truth behind a local army interpreter's mysterious death. Publisher Patrick...

The debonair life of "To the Manor Born" star Peter Bowles will be revealed in an autobiography from Simon & Schuster. M.d. Ian Chapman bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Caroline Michel at PFD, and the book will be published in hardback next spring.

The acquisition was made in suitably dapper fashion following a...