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Tina Turner writes 'guide to life' for HarperCollins

Singer Tina Turner has written a guide to life using Buddhist principles, to be published by HarperCollins. Read more

Fourth Estate signs PRH editor's 'dazzling' debut for six figures

Fourth Estate has won a five-publisher auction for the “dazzling” debut novel from PRH assistant editor Kasim Ali, in a six-figure two-book deal.... Read more

Headline bags Barr's 'ambitious' Middle East history in six-way auction

Headline has acquired an "ambitious" work centred on conflict in the Middle East by historian and author James Barr in a "heated" six-way auction.... Read more

MCB flies in for Morayo's fairy fiction series

Macmillan Children's Books has won a multi-publisher auction for a young fiction series by debut author Lola Morayo. Read more

Movie animal trainer Tottman pens series for Sphere

Movie animal trainer Julie Tottman has signed with Sphere to author two books, about two of the deserving animals she has rescued, loved and trained to appear... Read more

Doubleday snaps up literary gem Diving for Pearls

Doubleday has acquired Jamie O'Connell's "stunning" debut Diving for Pearls, featuring intertwining stories "combining dark wit and devastating emotional truth". ... Read more

Lake Union splashes out on Spalding in three-book deal

Amazon imprint Lake Union has signed a three-book deal with comedy author Nick Spalding. Read more

Mirror Books lands story of Audrey Hepburn's secret resistance past

Mirror Books has landed the “extraordinary” true story of Audrey Hepburn and her time as a resistance fighter during the Second World War, written by... Read more

Bridgman to release debut junior fiction series with Tiny Tree

Tiny Tree has acquired a new junior fiction series from Bonnie Bridgman, featuring fun, adventure and a strong female lead. Read more

Vermilion releases 10-year anniversary edition of Brown's Gifts

Ebury imprint Vermilion is releasing a 10th anniversary edition of Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection. Read more

Faber pre-empts Hickson-Lovence's second novel

Faber has pre-empted Ashley Hickson-Lovence's second novel, due for publication in spring 2022. Read more

Bonnier scoops Flintoff's 'perfect tonic' social commentary

Bonnier Books UK is to publish a "lockdown fever, Zoom etiquette and social media meltdown" social commentary by Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff. Read more

HoZ wins three-way auction for 'sparkling' Ali-Afzal debut

Head of Zeus has won a three-way auction for the “sparkling” debut novel by Aliya Ali-Afzal. Read more

HarperCollins signs history of Britain told through ONS figures

HarperCollins has signed a history of Britain by Boris Starling with David Bradbury, told through figures from the Office for National Statistics. Read more

Derren Brown to share life lessons in bite-size for Transworld

Derren Brown is condensing the lessons from his bestseller Happy to handbook size in A Little Happier: Notes for Reassurance with Transworld this October.... Read more

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Chatto signs Invisible Women follow-up from Caroline Criado Perez

MJ reveals October novel from Dawn French

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