News: rights

Fitzcarraldo Editions snaps up 'vital' Preciado gender politics book

Fitzcarraldo Editions has snapped up a “vital” book on gender politics by Paul B Preciado, including an account of the author’s own transition.... Read more

Michael O’Mara to publish Margaret Beaufort biography

Michael O’Mara Books is to publish the first comprehensive popular biography in 30 years of Margaret Beaufort by historian Nicola Tallis. Read more

HCG snaps up nature poetry anthology

Hachette Children's Group will publish Poems from a Green and Blue Planet, a uniquely inclusive anthology of poetry from around the world, on National Poetry Day... Read more

Hamish Hamilton to publish 'lost nature classic'

Hamish Hamilton will publish “a lost classic of children's nature writing”, The House Without Windows, from 1927, to be introduced and illustrated by Jackie Morris. ... Read more

John Murray signs Lepore's polemical history of nationalism

John Murray Press has signed a “searing” concise polemical history of nationalism by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Jill Lepore. Read more

Penguin to publish sequel to McManus' One of Us is Lying

Penguin Books will publish a sequel to Karen M McManus’ bestselling YA thriller One Of Us Is Lying, entitled One of Us is Next. ... Read more

Firefly lands Killick's middle grade sci-fi horror

Firefly Press has landed a “scary and heart-warming” middle grade sci-fi horror by Jennifer Killick. Read more

Headline bags Buxton debut on foul-mouthed crow's battle to save humanity

Headline has bagged the “uniquely hilarious” debut novel from Kira Jane Buxton about a “foul-mouthed” crow’s battle to save humanity from extinction. Read more

Rebecca Swift poetry collection to come from Valley Press

Scarborough indie Valley Press is to publish A Suitable Love Object, a collection of poetry by Rebecca Swift, the founder of The Literary Consultancy, who died in... Read more

Trapeze bags first Lovell books in Kew partnership

Orion imprint Trapeze has bagged its first two fiction titles from Posy Lovell in a new partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Read more

Scribner scoops Trudeau policy advisor's memoir at auction

Scribner UK has acquired a book by Justin Trudeau’s foreign policy advisor Omer Aziz, following an auction. Read more

Canongate lands Mark Radcliffe book on 'epoch-changing' music

Canongate will publish BBC Radio 6 presenter Mark Radcliffe’s book Crossroads, discussing pivotal tracks in music and the musicians who performed them.... Read more