The McKitterick Prize Winner: Wenyan Lu for The Funeral Cryer 

Bentley and Singh join TGLA as literary agents

Scholastic scoops two-book deal from ‘unique new voice’ Keats

HopeRoad signs Garrard’s ‘gritty and exciting’ novel 21 Miles

Elliott & Thompson snaps up Muir’s ‘call to arms’

Bloomsbury Business signs McCay’s Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling

Muswell Press scoops Ransom’s new book about 30 years in the lives of three gay men

Hachette Children’s Group signs ‘sensational’ middle-grade trilogy by GallagherDK gobbles up cookery influencer Gao’s début in five-way auction

Black & White lands Pan Macmillan editor Castelletti’s ‘joyful queer ode to the classics’

Head of Zeus snaps up ‘hugely moving’ immigrant’s tale from Kyriacou in two-book dealDK

DK gobbles up cookery influencer Gao’s début in five-way auction