Canongate editorial director Francis Bickmore has acquired a début novel from Luke Brown, senior editor at UK independent publisher Tindal St Press. Bickmore bought world rights to My Biggest Lie from Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge & White.

A comic novel about “father figures, second chances and knowing...

Gaynor Arnold’s début novel, Girl in a Blue Dress, from Birmingham-based independent Tindal Street Press, achieved the rare feat of a place on the longlists of both the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. Arnold, a social worker in her early sixties at the time, was thrown into the full glare of the media spotlight with her...

Tindal Street Press has acquired a debut novel after discovering the author at a writing festival.

Editor Luke Brown bought world rights to Robyn directly from author Deborah Morgan. He discovered her work when judging a "Pulp Idol" competition at the Liverpool Writing on the Wall festival. The book tells the story of a 10-...

Tindal Street Press has acquired a novel by Lancashire novelist Paul Wilson.

Publishing director Alan Mahar acquired UK and Commonwealth rights excluding Canada to The Visiting Angel, from Diana Tyler at MBA Literary Agency.

The novel follows Patrick, a care worker at a halfway house. Called to talk to a man on a...