John Murray is planning to expand its non-fiction publishing output and has appointed Georgina Laycock to the role of publisher.

Laycock joins from Penguin Press where she worked on titles including Pop Goes the Weasel and Atlas of Remote Islands.

She will be working on the commissioning team alongside Kate...

Penguin UK, US and India have together acquired a narrative non-fiction account of the terrorist siege which took place at Mumbai's Taj hotel in November 2008.

Viking editorial director Joel Rickett bought world rights from David Godwin at David Godwin Associates, with Chiki Sarkar at Penguin India and Emily Murdock Baker at...

Non-fiction publishers are battling it out for this autumn's blockbusters, with editors confident the celebrity market will bounce back, despite having their "fingers burnt" last year.

However Eugenie Furniss, head of books at WME, which represents Cheryl Cole for her live tour bookings, strongly denied talk that a...

Entirely face-out sections, dedicated publisher areas and revamped travel departments are among the non-fiction experiments Waterstone’s could roll out around the country come the new year.

Over the past few months a variety of trials in the retailer’s Cambridge store have been taking place after the branch reopened its...