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Canongate scoops personal memoir from Thomson

Canongate has scooped a personal memoir from Scottish writer and visual artist Amanda Thomson. Read more

Michael Joseph signs Kacenberg's 'unique' Holocaust memoir

Penguin Michael Joseph has signed a “unique” Holocaust memoir about the unlikely friendship between a young Jewish girl and a stray cat by Mala Kacenberg.... Read more

Ware joins S&S UK with 'unputdownable' novel in two-book deal

Simon & Schuster UK has signed an “unputdownable” new book from internationally bestselling author Ruth Ware in a two-book deal. Read more

Unbound to crowdfund Sanderson's Listen with Father

Unbound is crowdfunding Listen with Father, a “book of remembrance” by Caroline Sanderson. Read more

Chatto backs Tyler's 24th novel with 'unmissable' campaign

Chatto & Windus is beginning an "unmissable" marketing, publicity and sales campaign to accompany Anne Tyler’s 24th novel, French Braid, as the author turns 80. ... Read more

SelfMadeHero releases anthology by emerging creators of colour

SelfMadeHero is releasing Catalyst, the result of its 2021 Graphic Anthology Programme, which was designed to develop, publish and promote emerging creators of colour from across the... Read more

Clock Tower scoops YA novel from Jerams and Wyatt

Sweet Cherry imprint Clock Tower Publishing has scooped singer Becky Jerams’ YA novel, written with Bafta-winning songwriter Ellie Wyatt. Read more

Whitehouse's Evolution Gap goes to Hutchinson Heinemann

Oxford anthropology professor Harvey Whitehouse's The Evolution Gap will be published by Hutchinson Heinemann in 2024. Read more

HQ snaps up book on pain management by Davies

HQ has snapped up "an accessible and practical" book on pain management by osteopath, coach and massage therapist James Davies. Read more

Square Peg signs Dope Black Dads founder Harrison

Square Peg has acquired an "essential" guide to positive, life-affirming and joyful Black fatherhood from Marvyn Harrison, the founder of the international community and podcast Dope Black... Read more

Kyle Books lands 'vibrant' vegetarian cookbook by Woodhouse

Kyle Books has landed a "vibrant" vegetarian cookbook by chef and food photographer Joe Woodhouse. Read more

Gill pens YA poetry collection for Macmillan Children's Books

Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired Here Are the Words, the first YA and crossover poetry collection from bestselling poet and social media star Nikita Gill.... Read more

Atlantic seizes Arnott's 'brutal' coming-of-age novel

Atlantic has landed Robbie Arnott's "stunning" third novel Limberlost. Read more

Zephaniah writes 'powerfully moving' Windrush picture book for Scholastic

Benjamin Zephaniah is writing a “powerfully moving” picture book about the voyage of "HMT Empire Windrush" to be published by Scholastic UK in April 2022. ... Read more

Cape wins fierce auction for Borough Press editor Agbaje-Williams' début

Cape editorial director Željka Marošević has triumphed in a six-publisher auction for the "part-Black suburban Millennial comedy of manners, part-domestic noir" début novel by The Borough Press commissioning editor Ore Agbaje-Williams.... Read more

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Yellow Kite wins five-way auction for psychotherapist's debut

PRH Children's triumphs in 15-way auction for Fadugba debut

Chatto signs Invisible Women follow-up from Caroline Criado Perez

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