News: rights

Chicken House buys humorous Read's debut

Chicken House has bought world rights to Milton the Mighty, the funny debut novel by Emma Read. Read more

HCG and ITV Studios partner on 'Top Class' publishing programme

Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) is developing a range of books based on "Top Class", the TV quiz show for children, in partnership with ITV Studios... Read more

Vintage reissues 50yo political thriller that 'speaks to our challenging times'

Vintage is reissuing Fletcher Knebel’s 1965 novel Night of Camp David, asking “What would happen if the president of the USA went stark-raving mad?”.... Read more

Rai and Lawrence celebrate BAME figures from British history

Scholastic will next year publish a series of books about BAME protagonists from British history, with Bali Rai and Patrice Lawrence signed on to write... Read more

Egmont buys ‘toolkit for change’ by Laura Coryton

Egmont has acquired a book about finding your voice and changing the world by Laura Coryton, the leader of a campaign against tampon tax.... Read more

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