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We are thrilled to announce that Amy Jeff's new book Arthur: A New Life has been acquired by Riverrun and will be published on 10 September 2026! The book will retell and mine anew the Arthurian legen

We are thrilled to announce that Nicholas Boggs' biography Baldwin: A Love Story is a finalist for the John Leonard Prize. The prize is awarded to the best book regardless of genre, selected by the o

We are thrilled to announce that Nicholas Bogg's biography Baldwin: A Love Story is a finalist for the 2026 Pen America Literary Awards! Baldwin: A Love Story was published in the US in August 2025 an

We are pleased to announce that Garrett Carr's The Boy From The Sea is Waterstones' Fiction Book of the Month for February! The Sunday Times Bestselling book came out in paperback on 29 January 2026.

We are thrilled to announce that Nicholas Boggs' Baldwin: A Love Story is the recipient of the Stonewall Book Awards Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award! The 2026 Stonewall Book Awards for Adult Non-Fict

We are thrilled to announce that Cat Byers has won the Elizabeth Longford Brief Lives 2025 Award for younger writers with an essay on Clovis Pierre, poet and city morgue official in nineteenth-century

We are thrilled to see so many of our authors on the Times Books of the Year list! Including: Andrew Graham Dixon's Vermeer which was published by Allen Lane on 23 October 2025.Roger Moorhouse's Wolf

We are pleased to see Clare Mulley's Agent Zo is a Wall Street Journal Best Holiday Book! Agent Zo was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2024 and by Pegasus in the US. The paperback came out i

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