Publishers are still prepared to pay good money up front for the right books, agents have told The Bookseller, after a raft of high-profile rights deals were struck ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair and at the fair itself. But agents also warned of gaps in publishing schedules and slow decision-making caused by doubts over retail...

The erotica trend sparked by the Fifty Shades trilogy continues, as e-book publisher, Total-E-Bound, is to publish a collection of erotic retellings of classic novels, following in the footsteps of Pan Macmillan's acquisition of Jane Eyre Laid Bare.

The Clandestine Classics, which will keep the original prose of the...

Corvus has bought a further three novels from Robert Fabbri, in his saga charting the rise of Vespasian to become Emperor of Rome. The series began with Tribune of Rome, with the second volume, Rome's Executioner, due out in May 2012.

Atlantic c.e.o. Toby Mundy and Corvus publishing director Nic...

Vintage Classics editorial director Laura Hassan has bought rights to 14 novels by Stella Gibbons, all of which have been out of print for the past decade.

Gibbons' first and most famous novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), in which the sensible Flora Poste sorts out the grim lives of the Starkadder family in a parody of the...