John Murray Press News

John Murray Press (London) and Basic Books (New York) today announce the opening of a new UK office of the award-winning US non-fiction publisher. Basic Books UK will be an imprint of John  Murray Press […]

Two Roads, an imprint of John Murray Press, has acquired JEREMY HARDY SPEAKS VOLUMES: words, wit, wisdom, one-liners and rants, which will bring together for the first time the very best from one of Britain’s […]

Lisa Highton at Two Roads has pre-empted UK rights to The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles from Linda Kaplan for the Heather Jackson Literary Agency. This follows a lengthy twelve-way publisher auction for U.S. […]

John Murray, an imprint of John Murray Press, has acquired the first book by award-winning journalist Akshat Rathi at auction, beating four other publishers. Georgina Laycock secured World ex. North American rights from Jonathan Conway […]

Gary Oldman will star in a small screen adaptation of Mick Herron’s Slough House books that will be streamed on the newly launched Apple TV. As reported by Variety magazine, the show will be titled “Slow […]

John Murray, an imprint of John Murray Press, has signed up novelist Shahnaz Ahsan and her debut Hashim & Family. John Murray publisher Mark Richards bought world rights from Lucy Luck at C&W, after they […]

Lisa Highton at Two Roads has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in Young Bloomsbury by Nino Strachey from Martin Redfern at Northbank Talent Management. John Murray Press will publish in hardback, ebook and audio in […]

The Stephen Hawking Estate announced today that the official biography of the world famous theoretical physicist and global bestselling author will be published in the UK and Commonwealth by John Murray Publishers, an imprint of […]

Joe Zigmond, Editorial Director at John Murray, an imprint of John Murray Press, has acquired U.K. Commonwealth rights to the new book by one of the world’s leading figures, 88 year old legendary investor and […]

John Murray Editor Becky Walsh has acquired world rights for Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen from Marianne Gunn O’Connor, after meeting Gallen at the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair earlier this year. Inspired […]

John Murray, an imprint of John Murray Press, will publish bestselling author and Costa First Novel winner Andrew Michael Hurley’s third novel, Starve Acre, this autumn. Mark Richards bought world rights from Lucy Luck at […]