News: rights

Egmont announces new Stanton series

Egmont has announced new developments for Andy Stanton, including a new fiction series and a repackaging of the Mr Gum series. Read more

Faber acquires comedian David Mitchell's new book

Guardian Faber will publish Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By by comedian David Mitchell.... Read more

Peet's last book snapped up for TV

Late children’s author Mal Peet's final book, The Murdstone Trilogy (David Fickling Books), will be adapted for TV by the dramatist behind Hilary Mantel’s "Wolf Hall" for... Read more

Two Brothers finds reason in Haig's memoir

The producers of “Fleabag” are reportedly developing a TV show based on Matt Haig’s memoir Reasons To Stay Alive (Canongate).... Read more

Orbit acquires fantasy author Barker's dragon bone battleship trilogy

Little, Brown Book Group imprint Orbit has acquired world English rights to a new fantasy trilogy from RJ Barker. Read more

Lime Pictures to adapt James Nicol trilogy

Lime Pictures, the TV production company behind Hollyoaks and the Netflix children’s hit Free Rein, is to adapt James Nicol’s ‘The Apprentice Witch’ trilogy.... Read more

Andy McNab and Phil Earle team up for Scholastic series

Novelist and former soldier Andy McNab is working with Phil Earle on a new middle-grade fiction title for Scholastic. Read more

Viking bags Besson's book translated by Ringwald

Viking will publish Philippe Besson's award-winning novel Lie With Me, translated by actress and author Molly Ringwald. Read more

John Murray acquires Munroe's 'delightfully mind-bending' self-help guide

John Murray has acquired the new "delightfully mind-bending'" book from bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe. Read more

Myriad acquires Chiew's debut short story collection

Myriad has acquired world rights to Elaine Chiew's debut collection of short stories, The Heartsick Diaspora. Read more

Doughty's train station mystery published by Faber

Faber will publish Louise Doughty’s "gripping, eerily-timely" new novel about two deaths at a train station, Platform Seven, in August.... Read more

Blink scoops Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse book

Blink has signed Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse as the Bonnier Books UK imprint acquires rights to the comedy duo's new book. Read more

Hodder & Stoughton signs McCreesh's debut

Hodder & Stoughton has acquired Cracked, the debut crime novel by Curtis Brown Creative course graduate Louise McCreesh. Read more

Puffin pairs Bryon and Adeola for picture book series

Puffin, part of Penguin Random House Children's, has acquired a three book picture series about an “irrepressible” girl called Rocket by debut author and illustrator... Read more