News: rights

Bloomsbury signs kids’ fantasy duo

Bloomsbury Children’s Books has acquired world rights, in all languages, to two fantasy series from Catherine Pellegrino at Marjacq. Read more

Ten-way UK tussle for Missy Carmichael

A "coming-of-old" début has been the subject of a string of deals on the eve of the fair, with HarperFiction sealing UK and Commonwealth rights... Read more

Oneworld signs Dennis-Benn’s migration tale

Oneworld publisher Juliet Mabey has signed UK and Commonwealth rights to Jamaican novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn’s second novel Patsy. ... Read more

Wicks to Wean in 15

Bluebird has signed two further books from fitness and cookery star Joe Wicks, both of which will focus on babies, children and healthy eating for... Read more

Ballantine bags New Girl in six-figure pre-empt

World rights to the Times fashion editor Harriet Walker’s début novel were sold to US publisher Kate Miciak at Ballantine in a six-figure, two-book pre-empt.... Read more

Bloomsbury scoops Flattery's 'urgent' stories in six-figure pre-empt

Bloomsbury has acquired a collection of short stories and a debut novel from Irish writer Nicole Flattery in a six-figure pre-empt. Read more

Canongate scoops Meek's Black Death tale

Canongate has acquired the “epic” new novel, To Calais, In Ordinary Time, from Booker-longlisted author James Meek, which is billed as a "mash up of... Read more

Chronicle prepares for the Worst 20th birthday

Chronicle is to update The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook to mark 20 years since the original publication by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht.... Read more

Whitehouse joins Fourth Estate with new police procedural series

Psychological thriller author Lucie Whitehouse is moving from Bloomsbury to Fourth Estate and changing gears with a new crime procedural series. Read more

Bodley Head in the Cloud

A book about the collision between the technology and finance worlds has gone to Bodley Head following a five-way auction. Read more

Harrow Lake horror pre-empted by PRH Children’s for six figures

Penguin Random House Children’s has acquired a YA horror novel by Kat Ellis in a two-book, six-figure pre-empt. Read more

Trapeze buys debut 'Five Steps to Happy' in 48-hour pre-empt

Trapeze Books has acquired journalist Ella Dove’s debut in a 48-hour pre-empt, a novel about learning to live life to the full as a survivor... Read more

Walker buys magical middle-grade set in Siberia

Walker Books has acquired Nevertell, a middle-grade novel set in the wilderness of Siberia, by debut author Katharine Orton. Read more

riverrun buys murder-suicide novel set in the Hebrides

Quercus imprint riverrun has acquired Rebecca Wait’s new novel about the impact of a murder-suicide on a small island in the Hebrides. Read more

Biteback buys Bernie Sanders' latest call to arms

Biteback Publishing has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance, the upcoming title by US... Read more