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City takes on University Challenge
News piece on City's appearance on University Challenge for XCity Magazine
MA graduate wins student Foreign Press Association award
News piece on Maya Saad's FPA win for XCity Magazine
'I was totally surprised and excited': Magazine graduate wins PPA award
News piece on Dani Clarke's PPA win for XCity Magazine
Elkerton moves to S&S Children’s from Rocket
Miya Elkerton will join Simon & Schuster in January 2024 as its first digital manager.
Avon signs Storey's The Memory Library
Avon Books has signed The Memory Library, an “uplifting novel about the healing power of books” by Kate Storey, which is the pseudonym for Lisa Timoney.
Bonnier sponsors WriteMentor’s 2024 Novel and Picture Book Awards
Bonnier is sponsoring WriteMentor’s 2024 Novel and Picture Book Awards.
Corsair scoops Stewart's Test Kitchen
Corsair has acquired “high-stakes” novel Test Kitchen by Glasgow-born Neil D A Stewart, for publication in July 2024.
Monoray snaps up oral history of The Beatles by Brown and Gaines
Monoray has acquired All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles – An Oral History by Those Who Were There by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines, a new book exploring the final years of the Beatles through “elucidating, contradictory, confounding and fascinating” interviews never heard or published before.
Little A lands Bowser's 'moving' memoir
Little A, Amazon Publishing’s non-fiction imprint, has acquired “moving and ultimately hopeful” memoir Bittersweet: a Story of Love and Loss by acclaimed journalist Lotte Bowser.
Holden-Brown to step down from the HHB Agency
Heather Holden-Brown has announced that she will be stepping down from the HHB Agency in February 2024.
Transworld scoops deep dive into Swift’s discography by Hämeenaho-Fox
Transworld has snapped up rights to a deep dive into the discography of Taylor Swift, Into The Taylor-Verse, by Satu Hämeenaho-Fox. It will be published by Bantam in May 2024, just before Swift’s UK leg of the record-breaking Eras Tour begins.
Barrington Stoke lands children’s cli-fi thriller by Cole
Barrington Stoke has acquired Drowning in My Bedroom, a “gripping tale of survival” from Steve Cole. It will be published in April 2024 as part of Barrington Stoke’s super-readable format for readers aged nine-plus.
Canongate buys Francis' The Bridge Between Worlds
Canongate has bought The Bridge Between Worlds: A Brief History of Connection by award-winning author and GP Gavin Francis, to be published in September 2024.
Graffeg scoops debut picture book on refugees from Latimer
Graffeg has acquired the debut picture book from author and illustrator Miriam Latimer. The Colour of Home will be published in October 2024 with financial support from the Books Council of Wales.
Monoray signs Price's 'radical, compassionate and groundbreaking' book on shame
Monoray has signed a “radical, compassionate and groundbreaking” book on shame by Devon Price.
Firefly Press acquires Welsh myths collection by Fayers
Welsh small press Firefly has signed a “thoroughly modern” collection of Welsh myths and legends by Claire Fayers, aimed at eight to 12-year-olds. Welsh Giants, Ghosts and Goblins is slated for publication in August 2024.
Faber creates special regional edition of Rebanks' memoir
Faber’s special regional edition of Helen Rebanks’ memoir The Farmer’s Wife is proving a hit with Cumbrian bookshops.
Tiny Tree acquires ‘bright and bold’ picture book on ADHD from Levey
Tiny Tree has signed author and illustrator Ben Levey and his picture book on ADHD, Lively Lila: A Dance of Happy Discovery, slated for publication in April 2024.
Neem Tree Books snaps up ‘bloody and brutal’ debut historical thriller from Sargeant
Neem Tree Books has acquired historical thriller Faith of Their Fathers, the first title in Samuel M Sargeant’s Icelandic historical fiction saga.
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