The 2020 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing shortlist was announced on 30th July. David Gange's book THE FRAYED ATLANTIC EDGE (William Collins 2019) is on the UK Nature Writing shorlist. The full ann
Dan Jones, author of bestselling titles including, THE PLANTAGENETS, THE TEMPLARS, and THE HOLLOW CROWN, will develop adaptations of his works through Sony Pictures Televisions’ (SPT) stable of script
Ultra by Tobias Jones, published on 19th September 2019 by Head of Zeus, was chosen as the winner of The Telegraph Sports Book Awards in the category 'Football Book of the Year 2020'. The Sports Book
IT'S GONE DARK OVER BILL'S MOTHER'S by Lisa Blower, published by Myriad Edition on 11th April 2019, has been longlisted for the 14th Edge Hill University Short Story Prize. The Edge Hill Short Story
CRICKET COUNTRY:AN INDIAN ODYSSEY IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE by Prashant Kidambi, published by Oxford University Press on 25th July 2019, has been shortlisted for the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Yea
Ultra by Tobias Jones, published on 19th September 2019 by Head of Zeus, was shorlisted in the category 'Football Book of the Year 2020'. The Sports Book Awards, now in its 18th year, is the major ann
The 2020 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing longlist was announced on 5th June, World Environment Day. David Gange's book THE FRAYED ATLANTIC EDGE (William Collins 2019) is on the UK Nature Writing l
In Rewild Yourself, Simon Barnes delivers 23 activities to bring the world around us a little closer. An impassioned plea to re-engage our senses with nature, Rewild Yourself was published in paperbac
The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually by the Wolfson Foundation to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience. First awarded in 1972, it remains a beacon of the b
The Classical Association Prize is awarded annually to the person who is felt to have raised the profile of the Classics in the public eye. This year’s prize of £5,000 has been awarded to author, clas
Ultra by Tobias Jones, published on 19th September 2019 by Head of Zeus, was longlisted in the category 'Football Book of the Year 2020'. The Sports Book Awards, now in its 18th year, is the major ann
We were delighted to see Asma’s Chef Profile on BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen on 7th March 2020 – click here to see Asma’s inspiring story and what she has planned next. She then cooked up a feast of ma
Stephen Garrett, Executive Producer of The Night Manager and the forthcoming HBO series The Undoing, has optioned the TV rights to BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera’s non-fiction book RUSSIANS
The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is an independent think tank engaged in cutting edge defence and security research. A unique institution, it was founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington.
The National Book Critics Circle Awards are given each March and honour literature published in the United States in six categories—autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
Asma Khan was a guest on BBC One's Saturday Kitchen on Saturday 11th January. The presenter Matt Tebbutt was joined also by chef Theo Randall and Kelvin Fletcher. The full episode is available here.
Daniel Susskind was on BBC Radio 4 Start the Week on 13th January 2020 to talk about his book A WORLD WITHOUT WORK, published in the UK (Allen Lane) and in the USA (Metropolitan Books). Tom Sutcliffe
Hachette Children’s Group has acquired world rights to publish JERUSALEM: CITY OF STORIES, a new children's version of the classic JERUSALEM: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore, that has now sold
Launched in 1971, the Costa Book Awards is one of the UK's most prestigious and popular book prizes and celebrates the most enjoyable books of the year by writers resident in the UK and Ireland. The
THE FRAYED ATLANTIC EDGE by David Gange has been longlisted for the 2019 Highland Book Prize. The Highland Book Prize, established in 2017, celebrates the finest published work that recognises the ri
ASTONISHING THE GODS by Ben Okri, first published in 1995, has been selected as one of the '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' in the category 'Life, Death & Other Worlds'. The BBC asked a panel o
The paperback edition of WRITTEN IN HISTORY by Simon Sebag Montefiore is on the Sunday Times bestseller list in the category General paperback. The book was first published by Weidenfeld & Nicolso
KING OF THE WORLD is the story of Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, who dominated his age. Hatchards are hosting Philip Mansel, the book’s author, in the first of an event series with the publica
The shortlist for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2019 was revealed on 7th May 2019. Epic: In Search of the Soul of Sport and Why it Matters by Simon Barnes, published by Simon and Schuster in July 2
Dr Marion Turner's biography CHAUCER: A European Life was published by Princeton University Press in March 2019. On 6th May, she was a guest of Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4 Start the Week. 'Chaucer is
The annual Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards, now in their seventh year and already the most prestigious in the UK, celebrate the best writers, publishers, broadcasters and photographers worki
Matthew Sturgis' major new biography on Oscar Wilde has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2019. Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis, published by Head of Zeus on 4th October 2018, is the onl
Asma Khan is the first UK-based chef to appear on 'Chef's Table', available on Netflix on 22nd February 2019. Season 6 takes ‘the journey home’ as its theme. Asma Khan is the chef-owner of Darjeeling
Carmen Marcus is a working class writer and performance poet from North Yorkshire. Her novel HOW SAINTS DIE was published by Harvill Secker in 2017, it won New Writing North’s Northern Promise Award a
Mystery Writers of America announced on 22nd January 2019 the Nominees for the 2019 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 20