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Craig signs new two-book deal with Little, Brown

Little, Brown publisher Richard Beswick has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to two more novels from Amanda Craig, in a deal made with Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis... Read more

Farshore to publish diverse mystery anthology

Farshore has acquired The Very Merry Murder Club, a mystery anthology written by 13 authors and co-edited by Serena Patel and Robin Stevens. ... Read more

Colfer's new Fowl Twins instalment scooped by HCCB

HarperCollins Children’s Books has scooped the third instalment of Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl companion series The Fowl Twins in a two-book deal. Read more

Buster Books scoops second title from Barfield

Buster Books, the children’s imprint of Michael O’Mara Books, will publish A Day in the Life of a Caveman, a Queen and Everything In Between, by... Read more

MacLehose Press to publish Johansson on language and evolution

Quercus imprint MacLehose Press has acquired The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk, a "deeply researched" exploration of how our ancestors... Read more

Hachette Children's to publish Mandanna's middle-grade fantasy series

Hachette Children’s Group has acquired two middle-grade fantasy adventures inspired by Hindu legends, from UK-based author Sangu Mandanna. Read more

Hodder scoops Peter Schmeichel’s autobiography

Hodder & Stoughton will publish football goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel’s memoir in September. Hodder acquired world rights, excluding Denmark, for One: My Autobiography from literary agent Kerr MacRae. The book will be published in the UK and in... Read more

Hayder takes two to Century under pen name Theo Clare

Cornerstone imprint Century has acquired two novels in a new epic multi-book series of speculative thrillers by former crime writer Mo Hayder, now writing as... Read more

Scallywag Press picks up Norton's Dino Knights series

Children’s publisher Scallywag Press has picked up Jeff Norton's Dino Knights series. Read more

Lake Union signs two more from Clark

Lake Union Publishing, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, has signed a new two-book deal with Imogen Clark. Read more

Walker acquires Rowe's Black romance YA

Walker Books has made a deal for two YA Black romance novels with US author Kelis Rowe, including her debut Finding Jupiter. ... Read more

Firefly acquires children's debut from TV writer Daniel Peak

Penny Thomas, publisher at Firefly Press, has acquired world rights to Little Horror, the debut children's novel from TV writer Daniel Peak, in a deal made with Abi... Read more

Cape signs 'audacious and mesmeric' McCarthy novel

Jonathan Cape has signed an “audacious and mesmeric” new novel by Tom McCarthy, The Making of Incarnation. Read more

Val McDermid launches first new series in 20 years

Val McDermid will launch her first new series in almost 20 years with Sphere this summer, inspired by her experience as a young reporter in the 1970s. ... Read more