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Hot Key bags Rahman’s debut after 'fierce competition'

Hot Key Books has acquired the debut YA novel by Yasmin Rahman, one of the contributors to the 2017 anthology A Change is Gonna Come... Read more

Urbane to publish title on 50 years of Airbus

Indie publisher Urbane Publications is to bring out a book in May 2019 commemorating the 50th anniversary of European aerospace company Airbus. Read more

Quercus signs three new titles from Sarah Knight

Quercus has acquired three new titles from the author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Sarah Knight.... Read more

Abrams signs Groskop's 'jaunty tour' through French fiction

Abrams Press has acquired a "jaunty tour" through French fiction by writer and comedian Viv Groskop titled Au Revoir, Tristesse. Read more

Kings Road signs memoir of Britain’s first black chief constable Michael Fuller

Britain’s first black chief constable, Michael Fuller, is publishing a memoir with Kings Road Publishing imprint 535. Read more

Tom Daley dives into new lifestyle project with HQ

Olympic champion and TV personality Tom Daley is publishing a new lifestyle book with HQ, called Tom’s Daily Goals.... Read more

Faber signs 'powerful film-poem' on the NHS

Faber & Faber has acquired To Provide All People, a "powerful virtuosic 'film-poem'" by prize-winning poet, novelist and playwright, Owen Sheers. Read more

Jasper Fforde returns with new 'rich, dark' novel

Hodder’s Jasper Fforde has returned with a new novel, Early Riser, which sees 99.9% of the human population go into hibernation every winter.... Read more

Transworld fights off ten to scoop The Warehouse

Transworld has splashed out six figures on a “near future thriller” set in an America addicted to consumerism, following a “hard-fought” 10-way auction. Read more

Headline publishes art book by Gaiman and Riddell

Neil Gaiman has written a book about art for Headline, with illustrations by Chris Riddell. Read more

Michael Joseph wins auction for 'The Killing' creator's debut

Michael Joseph has snapped up the debut novel from "The Killing" creator Søren Sveistrup following a nine-publisher auction. Read more

S&S signs six-figure deal with Catherine Isaac

Simon & Schuster UK has signed a six-figure deal for two new novels from Catherine Isaac, with the first novel, A Blanket of Stars, scheduled... Read more

McBride, de Waal and Rooney to write short stories for Faber collection

Eimear McBride, Kit de Waal and Sally Rooney are among the writers from "Ireland's current golden age" who are to feature in an anthology for... Read more

HarperCollins scoops Anne Frank investigation

HarperCollins has acquired world rights to "landmark publication" Anne Frank: A Cold Case Diary, promising fresh evidence on how the Frank family were discovered.... Read more

Scribe signs 'unconventional' book about women's bodies

Sarah Braybrooke and Marika Webb-Pullman at Scribe have acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to A Girl’s Guide to Personal Hygiene by Tallulah Pomeroy.... Read more