Publishing Deals - Bourne & Russell

A couple more brief reports of publishing deals - for established authors this time:

Quercus has commissioned two new Glasgow thrillers from Craig Russell. (The Bookseller)

and

HarperCollins has signed up three new books from journalist Jonathan Freedland writing as Sam Bourne.

[HarperCollins] said it had been a "superb team effort" to take the novelist "from a standing start to being the UK's bestselling thriller writer with sales of well over one million on TCM in less than five years". (The Bookseller)