We are pleased to announce that Garrett Carr's The Boy from the Sea has been shortlisted for Best Book of the Year in debut fiction by the British Book Awards 2026! The winner will be announced at the
We are thrilled to announce that Nicholas Boggs' biography Baldwin: A Love Story, narrated by Ron Butler, won best audiobook in the history/biography category at the AUDIE awards! The winners were ann
We are thrilled to announce that Head of Zeus has acquired the newest epic history from Dan Jones. Castles: A Fortified History of the World will be published on 8 October 2026. The publisher descrip
For the month of March, Garrett Carr's bestselling novel The Boy from the Sea is just 99p on Kindle and a discounted paperback on Amazon! The Boy from the Sea came out in paperback in January 2026 and
We are pleased to announce that Philip Hoare's William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love is Foyles' Non-Fiction Book of the Month! William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love was published in 2025, an
We are thrilled to announce that, in an exclusive submission, Bloomsbury UK are set to be the flagship publisher to take Beth Brower's self-published historical fiction series The Unselected Journals
We are thrilled to announce that Keshava Guha's The Tiger's Share has been longlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2026! The Climate Fiction Prize is a new literary prize that celebrates the most ins
We are thrilled to announce that Amy Jeffs' 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