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Time travel murder mystery to HoZ

Head of Zeus has acquired a time travel murder mystery from "brilliant new voice" Kate Mascarenhas. Read more

S&S triumphs in five-way auction for 'brave and moving' YA debut

Simon & Schuster UK has acquired two books by American YA debut author Erin Stewart following a five-publisher auction. Read more

Zaffre joins procession of books on royal wedding

Bonnier Zaffre is the latest in a raft of publishers to get behind this summer's royal wedding of Prince Harry to actress Meghan Markle.... Read more

Lagom to publish The Good Girl’s Guide To Being A Dick

Lagom is publishing The Good Girl’s Guide To Being A Dick, the first English translation of Alexandra Reinwarth's book which has sold half a million copies... Read more

Greer's Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction pre-empted by L,B within 24 hours

Little, Brown has pre-empted Andrew Sean Greer's 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Less within 24 hours. Read more

Abbi Jacobson's 'hilarious and poignant' essays to Virago

Virago has acquired a "hilarious and poignant" essay collection, I Might Regret This, about love, loss and "figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew" from... Read more

Royal biographer takes on All the Queen's Corgis

Royal biographer Penny Junor is publishing a book about all the dogs the Queen has owned in her lifetime, called All the Queen's Corgis.... Read more

Introvert's 'misadventures in extroverting' to Transworld

Transworld has acquired a non-fiction book "about an introvert who tries to live as an extrovert for a year". Read more

Constable to publish memoir of dry-stone waller

Constable has acquired the memoir of a dry-stone waller, publishing in May. Read more

Harvill Secker wins 'remarkable' debut after 'intense' five-way auction

Harvill Secker has won debut novelist Rosie Price’s literary novel, What Red Was, in an "intense" five-way auction.... Read more

Cosmo editor Storr pens first book on 'discomfort zone'

Piatkus has acquired Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Farrah Storr's first book at auction, about spending time in our "discomfort zone". Read more

Walliams’ Worst Children 3 gets May release

HarperCollins Children’s Books will publish David Walliams’ third and final title in ‘The World’s Worst Children’ series in May, with illustrations by Tony Ross.... Read more

Refugee Vuong nets global deals for debut novel

Rights to T S Eliot Prize winner Ocean Vuong’s debut novel have been snapped up around the world, with Jonathan Cape clinching rights to publish it in... Read more