Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell has co-translated a book written by an autistic child to be published by Sceptre later this year.

Mitchell has worked with his wife, Keiko Yoshida, to translate The Reason I Jump by Japanese writer Naoki Higishida, who has autism and wrote the book when he was 13 years old.

Former soldier Kevin Powers has won the £10,000 Guardian First Book Award for novel The Yellow Birds (Sceptre).

The book is a fictional depiction of the psychological impact of serving in the Iraq war, informed by the author's own experiences of the conflict.

Chair of the judges Lisa Allardice, editor of...

Sceptre has acquired two titles which look to give more insight into two of the world's biggest technology and social media firms, with one title to be a biography of Apple founder c.e.o. Steve Jobs' years in the wilderness, when he was dismissed from the company he created, and the other to lift the lid on Twitter.



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Sceptre has signed three new titles, striking deals for a non-fiction title about avoiding errors of judgement, a third novel by author Ned Beauman, and the first novel in seven years by Andrew Cowan, author of Pig.

Editorial director Drummond Moir acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in The Art of Thinking Clearly by...