Launching a new literary imprint in these deeply commercial times is hard work, but having Maggie O’Farrell’s latest novel Instructions for a Heatwave as your first title makes things a little easier. Not surprisingly, fiction publisher Mary-Anne Harrington [left] and associate publisher Leah Woodburn [right] —the...

Headline imprint Tinder Press has acquired two new novels by Patrick Gale, who moves from Fourth Estate.

Imogen Taylor, publishing director for fiction at Headline, bought world English-language rights from Caradoc King at A P Watt.

Taylor said: “I’ve long been a huge Patrick Gale fan. He writes with tremendous...