- In search of hip-hop
Patrick McCabe, twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is moving from Picador to Faber, which is publishing his new novel, Call Me the Breeze, this ......
- Hanging out at 12,000 feet
The son of the former Archbishop of Canterbury has a new novel that includes in its plot an encounter with the Marquis de Sade. James ......
- Chasing the moonflower
Arabella Pike at HarperCollins has bought, for a "significant advance" from David Godwin, world rights (excluding Brazil) in the next book by Christina Lamb, an ......
- Fortey on the great survivors
Arabella Pike at HarperCollins has paid "a significant six-figure sum" to acquire world excluding US rights in two books by scientist Richard Fortey.
- Sir Arthur’s most loyal confidante
Arabella Pike at HarperCollins has bought UK and Commonwealth rights in Just a Line, Dearest, the previously unpublished letters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to ......
- New novel from Davidar
Kirsty Dunseath has bought for Weidenfeld a second novel by David Davidar, author of The House of Blue Mangoes and publisher at Penguin Canada.
- Us and things
Stuart Proffitt has bought for Allen Lane a far-reaching account of consumer culture: The Consuming Passion: A History of Our Relationship with Things by Frank ......
- New Christie biography from Laura Thompson
Laura Thompson, biographer for Headline of Nancy Mitford, is to write for the same publisher an authorised life of Agatha Christie.
- Budge and Pike made HC directors
Belinda Budge, editorial director of mind, body and spirit publisher Thorsons, has been promoted to publishing director. She succeeds Eileen Campbell, who left the HarperCollins ......
- Historian Moore moves to HarperCollins
Lucy Moore, author of Maharanis, is moving from Penguin to HarperCollins in a six-figure, two-book deal.
- Self quits Bloomsbury
Will Self, controversial author of the novels My Idea of Fun and Great Apes, has moved to Viking and Penguin in a four-book deal. The ......
- Confex moves location.
Specialising in the design and manufacture of continuous non-ferrous rotary extrusion lines, Confex Technology Ltd has recently relocated to a prominent position in West Moors, ......
- New literary magazine to launch
The first issue of AretÉ (£7.99, 0904241165), a literary magazine edited by Craig Raine, will be published in December.
- Ballet star Acosta to write memoir
Arabella Pike has bought for HarperPress the memoirs of Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta.
- Kiran Desai moves to HH
Simon Prosser at Hamish Hamilton has bought a new novel by Kiran Desai, author of the well-liked Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (Faber, 1998).