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By 1997, however, Virgin Publishing decided to emphasise more non-fiction books by and about celebrities.

Their license renewal negotiations fell in 1996, a year in which the BBC was seeking to bring all the Doctor Who licenses back in house.

Consequently Virgin's Doctor Who license was not renewed and instead the BBC opted to launch their own series of Doctor Who novels.

In 1998, Darvill-Evans managed the editing and production of Virgin ’ s Guide to British Universities, and personally supervised the copy-editing and proofreading of Richard Branson's autobiography Losing My Virginity.