The Ink Factory has snapped up film and television rights to The Plotters (Fourth Estate) by Un Su Kim. 

John Murray Press has acquired an anthology of 50 poems written in endangered languages, accompanied by translations and commentaries.

Simon & Schuster UK has signed a two-book deal with actor and author Catherine Steadman.

Indie digital publisher Hera Books has signed women’s fiction novelist, Victoria Walters, in a two-book deal

Cornerstone has acquired the rights to the “gripping” inside story of the “the last swashbucklers of global capitalism”.

The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf (Hachette Children’s Books) is the winner of this year’s overall £5,000 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, beating off competition from other category winners Tomi Adeyemi, Lauren Ace and Jenny Løvlie.

Hilary McKay’s next book for Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB) will be a contemporary fiction novel about two single parents who bring their children together in a mysterious, ivy-covered house.

All eight shortlists for the British Book Awards Books of the Year have been announced, with a strong focus on international writers including Michelle Obama, Michael Wolff, Sally Rooney and Leila Slimani.

The nine winners of the regional round of the Independent Bookshop of the Year Award have been revealed, with the 2018 overall champion, Five Leaves Bookshop, in contention to take the main prize for the second year in a row.

Hachette and Penguin Random House are leading The British Book Awards’ trade shortlists with 11 nominations each, with Hachette managing hat-tricks in both the Imprint and Publisher of the Year categories.

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Canadian instapoet Rupi Kaur talks to us about her poetry journey and love of live performance, following a sold-out UK event during London Book Fair.

Eugenie Furniss is leaving the agency she founded to join management and production company 42 as a literary agent.

Authors have praised Francis Spufford’s novel set in the world of Narnia, with some suggesting the C S Lewis estate should allow the book to be printed but others maintaining the work is fan fiction.