News: rights

BBC Scotland boss reveals career highlights in new memoir

Scottish independent The Lunicorn Press has acquired an account of 30 years of working in radio by Jeff Zycinski, former head of BBC Radio in... Read more

Gollancz acquires new Aaronovitch novella set in Germany

Orion's SFF imprint Gollancz has acquired a new Ben Aaronovitch novella, The October Man, which extends the Rivers of London universe to Germany.... Read more

Scribble buys children’s cookbook by illustrator Sala

Picture book publisher Scribble has acquired a children’s cookbook by illustrator Felicita Sala. Read more

Nosy Crow buys two by Catherine Bruton

Nosy Crow has acquired two standalone books by Catherine Bruton, the author of I Predict a Riot and We Can Be Heroes (Egmont).... Read more

BBC Books to publish novel from Fourth Doctor Tom Baker

BBC Books is publishing the first Doctor Who novel from Tom Baker, star of the series as the Fourth Doctor in the late seventies.... Read more

Virago seizes Megan Abbott's tale of female ambition

Virago has acquired two new novels from Megan Abbott, the author behind Dare Me and You Will Know Me (Picador), including a thriller about female ambition.... Read more

Hodder buys bereaved father’s ‘moving’ memoir

Hodder has bought a father’s "moving" memoir, Once More We Saw Stars, about how he and his wife coped after the death of their two-year-old daughter in a freak accident.... Read more

HC pre-empts Norwegian bestseller 'spreading love for insects'

HarperNonFiction has pre-empted a Norwegian bestseller about insects by life scientist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson. Read more

Oxenbury to illustrate Potter’s ‘little known’ Red Riding Hood

Helen Oxenbury is illustrating a “little known and darkly delicious" retelling of Red Riding Hood by Beatrix Potter. Read more

Puffin to publish graphic novel by R J Palacio

Penguin Random House Children’s imprint Puffin will next year publish a graphic novel about kindness and courage by R J Palacio, the author of Wonder.... Read more

Sir Ranulph Fiennes to celebrate 75th with updated autobiography

Hodder & Stoughton is publishing an updated edition of Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ autobiography, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know, in celebration of the British explorer's 75th birthday next March.... Read more

Mitchell Beazley acquires recipes from Siberia

Mitchell Beazley has acquired the first book of chef and entrepreneur Alissa Timoshkina, Salt & Time: Recipes from a modern Russian kitchen.... Read more

Chadwick's debut short story collection to Splice

Birmingham-based small press Splice has acquired world rights to Above the Fat, the début short story collection of Thomas Chadwick.... Read more

Octopus to publish clutter-clearing formula from 'organisers to the stars'

Mitchell Beazley has acquired The Home Edit: Conquering the Clutter with Style from "organisers to the stars" Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin.... Read more

Games Workshop to branch out into children’s books with Middle Grade series

Games Workshop is planning on moving into the world of children’s books by publishing a series of Middle Grade novels based on its war-game fantasy... Read more