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Based on Leonie Frieda's Catherine de Medici (Fourth Estate, 2005), the second season of 'The Serpent Queen' starring Samantha Morton will be available to watch on Starz from tomorrow, 12th July 2024!

Season 5 of Dan Jones' This is History podcast has just launched! A Sony Music Entertainment production, this season sees Dan Jones and producer producer Georgia explore strange tangents and delicious

A new podcast by Grace Hughes-Hallett called Dangerous Girls is out now! Introducing...Dangerous MemoriesWhen Sarah watched her 23 year old daughter cycle away from her in Chelsea - a well-off corner

We are pleased to announce that Adam Nicolson has won The Pleasure of Reading Prize 2024. The Pleasure of Reading Prize recognises an author, writing in English, who brings pleasure through their wri

We are thrilled to see Manya Wilkinson, Tom Baldwin and Robert Hardman have been chosen by the Times critics as three among the 100 best summer reads for 2024! Manya Wilkinson's Lublin is among the to

We are thrilled to announce that Katherine Pangonis' Twilight Cities (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023) has one the Somerset Maugham Award 2024. Pangonis joins the four other winners of the award which

We are thrilled to announce that Robert Hardman's Charles III (Macmillan, 2024) is the bestselling hardback for 2024 so far! After it's publication on January 18, Charles III spent 6 weeks in the Sund

Alice Morrison will be presenting a new 2-part BBC series called 'Arabian Adventures: The Secrets of the Nabateans'. In the program, Alice travels to Jordan and Saudi Arabia on a quest to reveal the

We are delighted to announce that Sophie Duncan's Searching for Juliet (Sceptre, 2023) has been shortlisted for the Society of Theatre Research's Theatre Book Prize 2024. The prize has been running f

We are pleased to announce that Dan Jones's Essex Dogs has been shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2024. The shortlist was announced on 10 May 2024. The Indie Book Awards, chosen by independent b

We are thrilled to announce that Katie Engelhart, author of The Inevitable (Atlantic, 2021), has won the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing, for her New York Times article, 'The Mother Who Changed: A S

We are pleased to announce that Dominic Leonard is the winner of The London Poetry Prize 2024, for his poem 'The End'. Dominic was shortlisted and the winner was announced on 2 May 2024. Of the awar

We are pleased to announce that James Wolff's book The Man In The Corduroy Suit has been longlisted for the Crime Writers Association Dagger Awards! The award is given to thrillers set in any period

Simon Barnes, author of the new book How To Be A Bad Botanist, featured on BBC evening News on 22 April 2024. As well as promoting his new book, he spoke about the importance of "spending time in natu

We are pleased to announce that Adam Nicolson's How To Be has been shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024! The award is given annually for a book about Greece, Of the shortlist,

We are thrilled to announce that Sophia Money-Coutts' novel Looking Out For Love is a finalist for the Romantic Novel of the Year Awards 2024! The finalists were announced on 9 April. Looking Out For

We are pleased to announce that Alex Aspden's uncanny short story has been shortlisted for the Comma Press 2024 Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction. The theme was 'the Uncanny' and the winner wil

We are thrilled to announce that Chris Newens' Moveable Feasts: Paris in Twenty Meals has won the Jane Grigson Trust Award for best new food and drink writer. The prize awards £2,000 to a first-time

We are thrilled to announce that Chan Ho-Kei's bestselling novel Second Sister will be adapted into premium series titled, 'Hate Coin', by Limmon Pictures! The story follows the activities of a young

We are pleased to see that Andrew Greig's novel Fair Helen is one of The Big Issue's top 5 books inspired by folklore! La Macrae called the book 'wonderful', stating: 'Greig conjures a hugely suspense

We are pleased to announce that Keshava Guha's new novel The Tiger's Share has been acquired by John Murray Press. Publishing director Nicholas Pearson acquired world rights from Director Rachel Conw

We are thrilled to announce that Robert Hardman's Charles III: The Inside Story has spent 6 weeks on the Sunday Times Bestseller list! The book was published on 18 January 2024, and topped the charts

We are thrilled to announce that Allen Lane will be publishing Thea Lenarduzzi's new book Collapsing Houses: Pieces of Natalia Ginzburg. Josephine Greywoode, publishing director at Penguin Press, bou

We are thrilled to announce that Dan Jones' podcast This Is History: A Dynasty to Die For has been nominated for an Ambie Award in the Best History Podcast category. The Ambies are awarded for excelle

We are thrilled to see Robert Hardman and Martin MacInnes on the Sunday Times Bestsellers list. Robert Hardman's Charles III: The Inside Story has been a Sunday Times Bestseller for 4 weeks in a row,

We are thrilled to announce that Robert Hardman's Charles III: The Inside Story is once again a Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller, for the 2nd week in a row! The book was published on 18 January 2024, and

We are thrilled to announce that Robert Hardman's Charles III: The Inside Story is a Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller! The book was published on 18 January 2024, and topped the charts for the bestselling

We are pleased to announce that Dina Nayeri's Who Gets Believed is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction. Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for

We are excited to announce that Robert Hardman's new book Charles III: The Inside Story is the number one bestseller on Amazon! The book will be published on Thursday 18 January, and has already peake

We are excited to announce that Steph Vizard's book The Love Contract is an Apple Books Must Listen for the month of January! The Love Contract was published by HarperCollins Australia in 2023 and fol