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Del Rey, an imprint of Penguin Random House, has triumphed in a five-way auction for Lynn D Jung’s "chilling, propulsive and fantastical" dark academia debut. Editorial director Sam Bradbury and editorial assistant Feranmi Ojutiku acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, to Mothsblood, from Laura Crockettat TriadaUS. North American rights were pre-empted by Kenli Manning at Bloomsbury US.

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You are viewing your 1 free article this month. Login to read more articles. Rights Sphere Fiction has won a "hotly contested" five-way auction for Omid Scobie and Robin Benway’s workplace romcom set in the Buckingham Palace press office in a six-figure deal. Former Sphere commissioning editor Rebecca Roy acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to Royal Spin from Meredith Miller at United Talent Agency (UTA) before going freelance last year.

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News The estate of later author Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE is set to be auctioned off. Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers will auction nearly 200 items from Bradford’s estate including her favourite typewriter, paintings of her beloved dogs, select pieces of jewellery and rare first editions of her own works, as well as some received from British prime ministers.

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WH Smith has reported a 7% growth in its UK travel business, in its interim results announcement for the six months to 28th February 2025, following the sale of the high-street business. Profits for the travel business increased to £40m in the past six months, up from £37m in the same period last year. Total revenue increased to £384m from £360m, in the same period in 2024.

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Rights Faber is set to publish Jenny Uglow’s biography of 18th-century naturalist Gilbert White. Alex Bowler, publisher, acquired UK and Commonwealth, Canada and EU rights to A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer from Zoe Waldie at Rogers, Coleridge and White. The book will be published on 11th September 2025. Gilbert White is widely regarded as "the father of ecology" and was a country curate who lived in the Hampshire village he had known all his life.