News: rights

Lightning lands Scandi crime classics

Lightning Books has scooped rights to two classic works of Scandinavian crime fiction. Read more

Everything with Words signs Eve McDonnell debut

Independent publisher Everything with Words has acquired world English rights to Elsetime, a middle-grade debut by Irish author Eve McDonnell. Read more

Mairi Kidd celebrates inspirational Scots with Black & White deal

Black & White Publishing has acquired two books about inspirational people from Scotland by Mairi Kidd, head of literature, languages and publishing at Creative Scotland.... Read more

Granta signs 'urgent and unflinching' Peru reportage by Zárate

Granta Books has picked up an "urgent and unflinching" collection of reportage from Peru on the stories of three environmental activists. Read more

S&S UK acquires Hammonds Reed’s retelling of Rodney King riots

Simon & Schuster (S&S) Children’s UK has bought the UK and Commonwealth rights to The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed, which is set during the 1992... Read more

Sony Pictures secures film rights to Taylor’s Malamander

Sony Pictures has secured the film rights for Thomas Taylor’s middle-grade novel Malamander for a “substantial” pre-empt, Walker Books has confirmed.... Read more

Riverrun scoops Phelps-Roper memoir in three-publisher auction

Riverrun has scooped the “inspirational” literary memoir from Megan Phelps-Roper, former member of the Westboro Baptist Church and the focus of a recent Louis Theroux... Read more

HQ signs another three from Watkins

HQ has acquired three new novels in Roz Watkins’ DI Meg Dalton crime series. Read more

Virago scoops 'eye-opening' memoir from Toksvig

Virago has scooped an "eye-opening” memoir from broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, based around what she sees from the upper deck of a London bus. Read more

Fitzcarraldo Editions lands Tumarkin's 'one of a kind' award-winner

Fitzcarraldo Editions has landed a “one of a kind” award-winning book by Maria Tumarkin. Read more

Bloomsbury scoops Kerridge's Lose Weight & Get Fit

Bloomsbury imprint Absolute will publish Lose Weight & Get Fit by Tom Kerridge, featuring 100 high-flavour recipes for dieting and fitness in December.... Read more