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Jeffrey Archer leaves Pan Mac for HarperCollins in three-book deal

Jeffrey Archer is leaving Pan Macmillan after 18 years and returning to HarperCollins in a three-book deal. Read more

Lloyd extends First World War histories for Viking

Viking is to publish two further First World War history titles by Dr Nick Lloyd, to follow on from The Western Front, which the imprint is... Read more

Boiler House acquires Pester's 'unsettling' short stories

University of East Anglia publisher Boiler House Press is to publish Ben Pester’s debut short story collection Am I in the Right Place? ... Read more

Scholastic UK acquires book from Mangan siblings

Scholastic UK has acquired Escape the Rooms, the "dazzling" children’s book debut from actor Stephen Mangan, illustrated by his sister Anita Mangan.... Read more

Penguin Books pre-empts YA thriller from 'astounding new voice'

Penguin Books has pre-empted What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson, a YA debut about "beauty, brutality and broken people trying to survive", branded "a masterpiece of a thriller".... Read more

Virago to publish memoir from Dame Eileen Atkins

Actress Dame Eileen Atkins, aged 86, will publish her memoir with Virago in October 2021. Read more

Billie Eilish to publish book with Wren & Rook

Hachette UK imprint Wren & Rook is releasing a photo book from singer and songwriter Billie Eilish. Read more

Puffin to publish 'eye-opening' true story of growing up autistic

Puffin has announced it is publishing A Different Sort of Normal, written and illustrated by debut talent Abigail Balfe—the true story of one girl's journey growing up autistic.... Read more

The Emma Press to publish pandemic-themed children's poetry debut

The Emma Press has acquired world rights to My Sneezes Are Perfect, the debut children's poetry collection by Rakhshan Rizwan. Read more

Faber to release Rooney's third novel Beautiful World, Where Are You, in September

Booksellers have expressed excitement at the news that Sally Rooney's third novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, will be out from Faber this September.... Read more

Muswell Press acquires 'utterly authentic' debut novel

Muswell Press has acquired The Whale Tattoo by Jon Ransom, for publication in February 2022. Read more

Manilla Press reveals Halls' third novel Mrs England

Manilla Press has revealed details of Stacey Halls' new novel, out in June 2021. Read more

Stacey Abrams' Washington conspiracy thriller to HarperFiction

HarperFiction has netted While Justice Sleeps by US politician and lawyer Stacey Abrams, a “powerful” political thriller about a young law clerk who is left to unravel... Read more

Bloomsbury Continuum to publish Bryant's 'modern-day Letter from America’

Bloomsbury Continuum has acquired When America Stopped Being Great by BBC New York correspondent Nick Bryant. Read more

Headline Review bags 'swoon-worthy' debut

Headline Publishing Group has acquired The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, a "bold, swoon-worthy and utterly modern" debut novel. ... Read more

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