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More FitzGerald for Faber

Faber has acquired a new psychological thriller from Helen FitzGerald. Viral follows twins Leah and Su, opposite personalities who travel together on a post-exams holiday... Read more

Bloomsbury signs Celia Imrie novels

Bloomsbury has signed a two-book deal with actress Celia Imrie. Editor-in-chief Alexandra Pringle signed world English rights to her debut book, Not Quite Nice, and... Read more

Post-human study to Granta

Granta Books has signed To Be a Machine: Encounters with a Post-Human Future by Mark O'Connell. Senior editor Max Porter signed UK and Commonwealth rights... Read more

Hodder signs Alex Hollywood cookbook

Hodder & Stoughton has signed a cookbook by Alex Hollywood, the wife of "Great British Bake Off" judge Paul Hollywood. Nicky Ross, Hodder & Stoughton... Read more

Granta signs more from Barkham

Granta Books has signed two more books from Patrick Barkham, author of The Butterfly Isles, Badgerlands, and the forthcoming Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore... Read more

John Murray signs literary debut

John Murray has acquired a “brilliant literary debut from a bold new voice in British fiction”. Publisher Roland Philipps bought UK and Commonwealth rights to... Read more

Harper360 to publish Tim Howard

HarperCollins' international publishing programme Harper360 has signed a memoir by Everton and USA goalkeeper Tim Howard. The Keeper will be released as two editions, with... Read more

Bloomsbury Spark signs self-published authors

Bloomsbury has signed two self-published authors, Lauren Blakely and Lyla Payne, to its YA and “new adult” e-book imprint Bloomsbury Spark. Lauren Blakely is... Read more

Crime series to Headline

Headline has bought three novels in a crime series by debut author James Law. Victoria Mellor, deputy publishing director for fiction, bought British Commonwealth rights,... Read more

Cocktail guide for Saltyard

John Murray Press imprint Saltyard Books has acquired Ten Cocktails: The Art of Convivial Drinking by Alice Lascelles. Publisher Elizabeth Hallett acquired world rights from... Read more

Octopus signs chinatown cookbook

Octopus Publishing Group’s Mitchell Beazley imprint has bought world rights to food blogger Lizzie Mabbott’s Chinatown Kitchen – Recipes from the Asian Supermarket. The book,... Read more

Granta signs debut literary fiction

Bella Lacey, editorial director at Granta, has signed a story collection and novel by US author Greg Jackson, in a deal with Vivien Green at... Read more

Scribe signs latest from McWatt

Scribe UK has signed a novel from Tessa McWatt, looking at the lives of modern Londoners. Editor-at-large Philip Gwyn Jones signed English language rights (excluding... Read more

Scholastic acquires debut picture book author

Scholastic has acquired How to be a Dog, the debut title from author and illustrator Jo Williamson. How to be a Dog is a... Read more

Gabaldon signs with Cornerstone

Diana Gabaldon is to publish three new Outlander novels with Cornerstone imprints Century and Arrow, with the series moving from Orion to the Penguin Random... Read more

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