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'Talk Art' podcast hosts land deal with Ilex Press

Ilex Press, an imprint of the Octopus Publishing Group, has acquired Talk Art: Everything You Wanted to Know About Contemporary Art but Were Afraid to Ask by... Read more

S&S snaps up Foulkes' vampire middle-grade series

Simon & Schuster has pre-empted debut author Alex Foulkes' Rules for Vampires middle-grade series. Read more

Welbeck acquires Michelle Elman's Joy of Being Selfish

Welbeck is to publish Michelle Elman's latest self-help guide, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why You Need Boundaries and How to Set Them.... Read more

Body of work: EmRata's essays to Quercus

Influencer Emily Ratajkowski is to publish a "deeply personal" collection Read more

S&S lands SAS veteran's account of terror attack

Simon & Schuster has signed UK and Commonwealth rights to an untitled, first-hand account by Chris Craighead, of how he responded alone to an Al-Shabaab terror attack... Read more

Sphere to publish Wilson's thriller The Witness

Sphere is publishing The Witness, the first novel by barrister and non-fiction author Alexandra Wilson. Read more

Sphere to publish Mackintosh's 'best novel yet'

Sphere is publishing a new thriller from Clare Mackintosh called Hostage, due to be a "major" lead title for the publisher in summer 2021.... Read more

Yellow Kite on board for book from TFL underground duo

Yellow Kite has acquired All on the Board: Inspirational Quotes from the anonymous Transport for London "underground duo". Read more

Straight outta Crawley: White Rabbit signs The Cure biography

White Rabbit publisher Lee Brackstone has bought an encyclopaedic literary biography of goth rock giants The Cure by music journalist Simon Price. Read more

'Gorgeously relatable' début snapped up by Atlantic

Canadian author Emily Austin's Everyone In This Room Will Some Day Be Dead, was pre-empted in 24 hours Read more

Penguin Michael Joseph bags Lea's 'astonishing' new novel The Metal Heart

Penguin Michael Joseph has acquired a love story from Caroline Lea, author of The Glass Woman, about an island community torn apart by the arrival of outsiders.... Read more

Shot in the arm for 4th Estate with van der Linden's Truth Vaccine

Fourth Estate has won a six-way auction at Frankfurt for The Truth Vaccine by social psychologist Dr Sander van der Linden.... Read more

Hodder buys Scott's history of discovery

Hodder & Stoughton has snapped up a new narrative non-fiction book that will explore the history of discovery by academic and presenter Professor Michael Scott.... Read more

HarperCollins nets crime story collection by authors of colour

HarperCollins has netted a “landmark” collection of original crime and mystery stories written by authors of colour from across the English speaking world. Read more