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We are pleased to see Adam Lebor's The Last Days Of Budapest is on the Economist's Best Books of 2025 list! The Last Days Of Budapest was published by Head of Zeus in January 2025. Told through the li

We are thrilled to announce that David James Smith's podcast 'Fool's Gold' is a finalist for Rose d’Or Awards! The Golden Rose award is given to a programme or series that has made an exceptional cont

We are thrilled to see Victoria Taylor, John Foot and Giles Tremlett on the Telegraph's Greatest Books of 2025 list! Victoria Taylor's book Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle o

We are thrilled to announce that Keshava Guha's The Tiger's Share has been longlisted for the Godrej Literature Live! Fiction Book of the Year! The Tiger's Share was published by John Murray in March

We are pleased to announce that Garrett Carr's debut novel The Boy from the Sea has been nominated for the Irish Book Awards. It's up for the Eason Novel of the Year award. The Boy from the Sea was

We are thrilled to see that Keshava Guha's novel The Tiger's Share has been longlisted for the Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize 2025! The Tiger's Share was published by John Murra

Congratulations to Jerry Brotton and Whistledown Productions on winning a gold medal for Best Education Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2025! In each episode of 'What's Your Map?', a podcast fr

We are pleased to announce Justin Marozzi's Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World has been shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 20

We are thrilled to announce that Dan Jones' Henry V, Clare Mulley's Agent Zo , and Amy Jeffs' Saints have all been picked as Waterstones' paperbacks of the year! Henry V was published by Head of Zeus

We are pleased to announce that Adam LeBor and Justin Marozzi have been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025! Adam LeBor has been longlisted for his book The Last Days of Buda

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Manya Wilkinson is the winner of the 2025 Hawthornden Prize for Literature! Her novel Lublin, is also the winner of the 2025 Wingate Literary Prize and the

We are thrilled to announce that Nicholas Bogg's biography Baldwin: A Love Story is a fanalist for the Kirkus Reviews Prize 2025. One of the richest prizes in the world, the winners will be announced

Dame Stella Rimington - Family Announcement It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Dame Stella Rimington, the first female Director General of MI5 and author. She died last night, 3rd

We are thrilled to see Clare Mulley's Agent Zo, Adam LeBor's The Last Days of Budapest, and Victoria Taylor's Eagle Days on the Aspects of History Summer Reads 2025 list! Agent Zo was published by We

We are thrilled to see four GCA authors in the Times 80 best books to read this summer! They include: Adam LeBor's The Last Days of Budapest which was published by Head of Zeus in January. Garrett Ca

We are thrilled to announce that Manya Wilkinson is this year's winner of the RSL Encore award for best second novel, for Lublin! The win was announced at a special ceremony in London on the 21 May 2

We are thrilled to announce that Clare Mulley's Agent Zo has been awarded Silver in the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2025! Military History Matters is the popular bi-monthly magazin

We are thrilled to see that Eleanor Barnett's Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation is a finalist for the Guild of Food Writer’s Food Book Award! The Awards honour the depth of expertise

We are thrilled to announce that Manya Wilkinson's Lublin has been shortlisted for the Encore Award! Lublin was published by And Other Stories in 2024, and is winner of The Wingate Literary Prize 2025

We are thrilled to announce that Dan Jones' Henry V has been shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2025! Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior Kin

We are thrilled to announce that Eleanor Barnett, author of Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation (Head of Zeus, 2024) and Richard Godwin, author of The Spirits: A Guide to Modern Cockta

We are thrilled to announce that Clare Mulley's Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka, has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non Fiction 2025! Agent Z

We are thrilled to announce that Manya Wilkinson is the winner of the Wingate Literary Prize 2025 for her novel Lublin. Lublin was published by And Other Stories in 2024 and was described by the judg

We are so pleased to see that Garrett Carr's The Boy From the Sea and Adam LeBor's The Last Days of Budapest have been chosen by The Times as some of the Best Books of 2025 so far! The Boy From the Se

We are thrilled to announce that the new podcast from the creators of 'QI' and the spin-off podcast 'No Such Thing as a Fish' have launched a new podcast 'Lunchbox Envy', featuring Rosie Mackean, auth

We are thrilled to see that Garrett Carr's The Boy From The Sea has reached No.4 in the Irish Times bestselling fiction list over the weekend! The Boy From The Sea was published by Picador on the 6 Fe

We are thrilled to announce that Lisa Blower is the winner of the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize 2025! Lisa's story ‘Blessing in Burslem’ was described by the judges as, "a piece of writing that off

We are thrilled to announce that Clare Mulley's Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka, has been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non Fiction 2025! Agent Zo

We are thrilled to announce that Grace Hughes-Hallett's debut feature 'The Secret of Me' will be screened at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival this year. The competition features fi

We are thrilled to announce that Lisa Blower has been shortlisted for the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize 2025! The prize is an annual award for unpublished short stories between 2,000 to 4,000 words