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No Exit to publish prequel to The Great Gatsby

No Exit Press will publish a prequel to F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by Michael Farris Smith in February 2021.... Read more

Finn examines world of ultra running in Guardian Faber acquisition

Guardian Faber has acquired a book about ‘ultra running’, one of the “toughest sports in the world”, by Adharanand Finn. Read more

Welbeck to publish memoir from pop duo Pepsi & Shirlie

Welbeck Publishing Group has acquired It’s All in Black and White: WHAM! Life and Friendship, the autobiography from 1980s pop duo Pepsi & Shirlie.... Read more

Rob Beckett's A Class Act for HarperCollins

HarperCollins has netted A Class Act by comedian Rob Beckett, a “funny and candid” attempt to reconcile his working-class childhood with the way he lives now.... Read more

Hodder snares Slater's 'deliciously dark' bookseller thriller

Former Waterstones staffer Alice Slater’s debut thriller, Death of a Bookseller, has gone to Hodder & Stoughton in a three-way auction. ... Read more

Faber lands Akwaeke Emezi's 'landmark' non-fiction debut

Faber is to publish Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, the first non-fiction work from novelist Akwaeke Emezi. Read more

Sphere acquires lockdown love story from Reekles

Sphere has acquired Love, Locked Down, the first adult novel from Beth Reekles, author of The Kissing Booth YA novels (Corgi Children's). ... Read more