A Freddie Mercury biography and a six-figure deal signed following a trans-Atlantic auction are among the pre London Book Fair deals agented by Mulcahy Conway Associates.

Non-fiction editor Hannah Black at Hodder and Stoughton paid a high five-figure sum for world rights to Freddie Mercury: the Definitive Biography by Lesley-Ann Jones. Also agented by Mulcahy, the book will be published in autumn 2012, coinciding with a new film about Mercury starring Sasha Baron Cohen as the Queen frontman.

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