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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

We are thrilled to announce that Manya Wilkinson's Lublin has been shortlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize 2025! Lublin was published by And Other Stories in February 2024. The prize is given to th

We are thrilled to see that Garrett Carr has been chosen by The Observer as one of the best new novelists for 2025! His debut novel, The Boy From the Sea, will be published on 6 February 2025 by Picad

We are thrilled to announce that the rights for Simon Sebag Montefiore's compendium The World: A Family History have been acquired by Karga Seven! Released exclusively to Deadline, Karga Seven - the T

We are thrilled to see that Dan Jones' Henry V and Clare Mulley's Agent Zo have been shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2025! Military History Matters is the popular b

We are very pleased to see that Adam LeBor's The Last Days of Budapest is The Times Book of the Week! In his review, Gerard DeGroot praises the book: "The book mirrors life — adversity mingling with j

It is wonderful to see that Liam Byrne's The Inequality of Wealth has been shortlisted for the Westminster Books Awards 2024! The Westminster Book Awards (formerly the Parliamentary Book Awards), pres

We are so excited to start watching 'Per Elisa - An Italian Crime Story', the new true crime series adapted from Tobias Jones' Blood on the Altar. Blood on the Altar was published by Faber in 2012.

Alice Morrison, author of Adventures in Morocco, Dodging Elephants, Morocco to Timbuktu, and Walking with Nomads, set off on her latest expedition on 1 January 2025, walking across Saudi Arabia from n

We are pleased to see that Adam LeBor's new book The Last Days of Budapest featured in the Waterstones round up for Best Books this January 2025. Of the book, Waterstones said: Drawing from chilling

We are thrilled to see that Daisy Dunn's The Missing Thread, Martin MacInnes' In Ascension and Daniel Susskind's Growth: A Reckoning are featured on the New Yorker's Best Books of 2024 "Also Recommend