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. O
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 2
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 ric
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 r
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
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. Summin
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 letters
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 me
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 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, da
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 U