Little, Brown has acquired a memoir by Stuart David, founding member of the indie pop band Belle & Sebastian, well-known for songs including "The Boy With the Arab Strap" and "I'm a Cuckoo".

Editor-in-chief Antonia Hodgson bought world English language rights from Joanna Swainson at Hardman & Swainson...

Two Roads has acquired a debut novel by US independent bookseller Jamie Kornegay.

Publisher Lisa Highton bought UK rights from Jim Gill at United Agents acting for Jim Rutman of Sterling Lord Literistic. Marysue Ricci of Simon & Schuster will publish in the US.

The title, Soil, tells the story of Jay Mize, an...

Viking has won the nine-way publisher auction in the UK for London Book Fair buzzed-about book, 28-year-old Emma Healey’s debut novel Strange Companions.

Publishing director Venetia Butterfield [pictured] acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in the title, from Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown, with four...

Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired an "extraordinarily gripping" debut novel by US writer and editor Amy Grace Loyd.

The Affairs of Others will be published in January 2014, and tells of Celia Cassill, who five years ago, in the wake of her husband's death, bought a brownstone house in Brooklyn and now rents...