Weidenfeld & Nicolson has won a three-way auction for the first biography of Elżbieta Zawacka, known as Agent Zo, the female Polish Second World War resistance... Read more
John Murray imprint Basic Books UK has pre-empted Doorway to the World, a “sweepingly magisterial” history of ports and slavery by Professor Olivette Otele.... Read more
Allen Lane has won a three-way auction for an "ambitious and uplifting political intervention", grounded in the thought of John Rawls, by economist, philosopher and debut... Read more
Virago has picked up the third novel by Chibundu Onuzo, a “moving, funny and surprising” story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search... Read more
HarperCollins has scooped the the inside story of how the UK handled coronavirus by Sunday Times insight editor Jonathan Calvert and deputy editor George Arbuthnott.... Read more
William Collins has landed the “riveting and candid” memoir of Kim Darroch, Britain’s ambassador to the US during Donald Trump’s White House reign.... Read more
