Daunt Books Publishing has won a four-way auction for Please Miss by Grace Lavery, a speculative memoir about addiction recovery and gender transition.... Read more
Weidenfeld & Nicolson is publishing an essay collection called What Is History Now? featuring contributions from Maya Jasanoff, Peter Frankopan and Simon Schama and edited by Helen Carr... Read more
Hachette Children’s Group has acquired Bone Music from David Almond, described as "a masterpiece that speaks to a modern audience about the ancient past and contemporary struggles."... Read more
The Bodley Head has won an 11-publisher auction for the next book by Jenny Odell, author of the New York Times bestseller How To Do Nothing.... Read more
Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue Editor Extraordinaire from the Blitz to the Swinging Sixties by Julie Summers has been optioned for... Read more
Felicity Bryan, chair and founder of Felicity Bryan Associates, has decided to step back from day-to-day involvement with the agency, as she is being treated... Read more
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired Moth by debut author Melody Razak, a "dark and sweeping" story of pre-partition India, in a three-way auction.... Read more
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has commissioned historian and biographer Artemis Cooper to write a cultural history of Paris, published to coincide with the 2024 Paris Olympics.... Read more
The Bodley Head has won a five-way auction for Charlotte Lydia Riley’s "fresh and vital" revisionist history of post-war imperial Britain.... Read more