Viking editor Will Hammond has bought world rights to The Temple-Goers, a literary début by Aatish Taseer, described by V S Naipaul as “a writer to watch”. The deal, Hammond's first for a fiction title and Viking's first world rights deal in literary fiction for some years, was conducted by Andrew Kidd of...

From his study window, Antony Beevor has a view of a quiet Fulham cul-de-sac, the only distraction the distant rumble of a Tube train. It's a world away from the chaos and killing of the Second World War which he specialises in chronicling.

He has just finished work on D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Viking, May), which...

Viking is rushing out the US bestseller that President-elect Barack Obama has cited as a key influence on the shaping of his forthcoming ­administration.

Editorial director Joel Rickett snapped up UK and Commonwealth rights last week to Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Pulitzer Prize-winning US...

Joel Rickett, editorial director at Viking, has acquired The Cruel Goddess: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley. The book chronicles the August disaster on the world's second highest mountain, when eleven of the world’s best climbers lost their lives in a single ascent.

Rickett said The Cruel Goddess was a...