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The Plutarch is the world’s only literary award given to biography by biographers. Named after the famous Ancient Greek biographer, the Plutarch is determined by secret ballot from a formal list of no

A unanimous decision by the Winston Graham Prize for Historical Fiction judging panel gave Ian Mortimer the top prize of £3000 for his book THE OUTCASTS OF TIME published by Simon and Schuster. Summi

Laurence Blair won the second RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for first commissioned works of Non-Fiction. This year’s Awards were judged by Iain Sinclair (Chair), Laura Bates, Aida Edemariam and Fiona St A

Simon Sebag Montefiore is currently in China where he has been awarded the Wenjin Book Prize for his book JERUSALEM: The Biography. The book is published in China by Shanghai Insight Media. Below is

The BBC has announced the names of the guest editors for BBC Radio 4 Today programme for the festive season. The historian Andrew Roberts will be the editor of the programme on New Year's Eve, joining

'Dear Albrecht, Everyone had hair like that - did they? I'll take your word for it. You were very good at hair, can I just say?' In a series of imaginary correspondences, Ian Sansom is writing letter

Leanda de Lisle was awarded the Historical Writers Association Non-Fiction Crown for her book THE WHITE KING at a ceremony on 7th November. The prize is awarded to the best non-fiction work published

The Waterstones Book of the Year was introduced in 2012. Nominated by booksellers, each year it sets about choosing that exceptional book which simply must be read, judged from the quality of its writ

The documentary film ‘Becoming Cary Grant’ featuring Mark Glancy is broadcast on Alan Yentob’s BBC ONE ‘Imagine’ on Tuesday 30th October at 22.45. Cary Grant was one of Hollywood's greatest leading m

French network France Televisions has joined London-based Ecosse Films and Paris-based Federation Entertainment to coproduce JOSEPHINE AND NAPOLEON, a 8 X 52’ international period drama series current

Netflix has announced the full lineup of the next two seasons of its award-winning culinary documentary series Chef’s Table. Asma Khan is confirmed to appear on Season 6: the series takes ‘the journey

Vintage have recorded a podcast featuring Carmen Marcus, whose book HOW SAINTS DIE was published in paperback on 5th July 2018. In the podcast, Carmen talks about the book, the inspiration behind it,

We are thrilled that Adam Nicolson has been awarded the Wainwright Prize 2018 for THE SEABIRD'S CRY, published by William Collins. The Wainwright Book Prize is the prestigious annual award celebratin

We're delighted that Laura Thompson has been nominated for the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non Fiction for her brilliant book REX V EDITH THOMPSON. The award is for any non-fiction work on a crime-related t

We are delighted to announced that Simon Sebag Montefiore's novel ONE NIGHT IN WINTER will be adapted for the small screen by Hat Trick Productions! The book tells the story of marriage, childhood, d

We are proud to announce that Chibundu Onuzo has been elected into the Royal Society of Literature. Chibundu was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in June 2018 as part of its 40

We are very pleased to reveal that Julia Copus has been appointed a RSL fellow. 31 new fellows were introduced to the Royal Society of Literature in a ceremony in central London on 4th June 2018. Po

Georgina Capel Associates are delighted to welcome Ben Okri to the agency. Ben Okri was awarded the Booker Prize in 1991 with THE FAMISHED ROAD. His other novels include THE AGE OF MAGIC, DANGEROUS L

Georgina Capel, Chair and founder of our literary agency Georgina Capel Associates Ltd, announced today the formation of the agency's new film and television development unit which has been incorporat

We are delighted to reveal that The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington has selected prize-winning author and historian Flora Fraser as its second Georgian Papers Fellow.

We are very excited to announce that ASKING FOR IT by Louise O’Neill has been honoured by the American Librarian Association, Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adu

We’re very pleased to reveal that Georgina Capel is one of the judges for this year’s Bodley Head/Financial Times Essay Prize. The Bodley Head/Financial Times Essay Prize aims to discover young talen

We are delighted to announce that Martin MacInnes' INFINITE GROUND has been shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year award. The judges praised INFINITE GROUND as “a surreal crime mystery at

We’re very pleased to announce that ASKING FOR IT by Louise O’Neill has been nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2016. The longlist will be announced on Thursday 16th February 2017, so we’ll be

We are delighted to reveal that THIS IS LONDON by Ben Judah is on the longlist for the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction. The Baillie Gifford Prize aims to reward the best of non-fiction and

We are very proud to announce that Flora Fraser has won the 2016 George Washington Prize, for her biography of George and Martha Washington. The award, which is one of the America's largest literary

We are proud to announce that The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation announced one of four 2016 Bradley Prizes will be presented to Andrew Roberts. The Bradley Prize will be awarded to Andrew at a ce

We are very pleased to announce that 20th Century Fox Feature Animation have closed a deal to acquire pre-publication film rights to THE ROYAL RABBITS OF LONDON, the first children's book series by Sa

We are delighted to announce that the TV & Film rights to the multi-award winning ONLY EVER YOURS by Louise O'Neill have been acquired by Killer Content, Inc. The book was first published in the

We are pleased to announce that Angelina Jolie has, through her production company Jolie Pas, bought an option to produce and adapt Simon Sebag Montefiore’s book, CATHERINE THE GREAT & POTEMKIN: T