We are very pleased to announce that GEORGE III: THE LIFE AND REIGN OF BRITAIN'S MOST MISUNDERSTOOD MONARCH by Andrew Roberts has been shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biogr
We are very pleased to announce that SANKOFA by Chibundu Onuzo has been longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, Best Published Novel 2022. Niso Smith, Founder of The Wilbur & Nis
We are very pleased to announce that ROSE NICOLSON by Andrew Greig has been shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2022. The Prize was founded in 2009, and is awarded at the Bo
We are very pleased to announce that THE INEVITABLE: Dispatches on the Right to Die by Katie Engelhart has been shortlisted for the New York Public Library's annual Helen Bernstein Book Award for Exce
We are very pleased to announce that AFRICAN EUROPEANS: An Untold History by Olivette Otele has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Prizes 2022 in the History category. The award honours the best
We are very pleased to announce that ALBERT AND THE WHALE: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World by Philip Hoare has been shortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 202
We are very pleased to announce that ALBERT AND THE WHALE by Philip Hoare has been shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022. The Rathbones Folio Prize is known as the 'writers’ prize' and rewar
We are very pleased to announce that ROSE NICOLSON by Andrew Greig has been longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2022. The award is one of the most prestigious literary prizes
For the ClassicsNow Festival 2022, Daisy Dunn, author of Not Far From Brideshead, will be in conversation with Irish writer and broadcaster Vincent Woods, talking about her first book, Catallus' Bedsp
We are very pleased to announce that THE SEA IS NOT MADE OF WATER: Life Between The Tides by Adam Nicolson has been shortlisted for the Richard Jeffries Award 2022. The prize is awarded to the book c
We are very pleased to announce that ALBERT AND THE WHALE: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World by Philip Hoare has been longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2022
It was a bumper crop for the agency over the weekend as The Times included 13 of our authors among their best genre books round-up of 2021. Andrew Greig’s ROSE NICOLSON and Andrew Roberts’s GEORGE I
SANKOFA by Chibundu Onuzo is one of Sara Cox's new book picks for the new series of Between the Covers, currently airing on Wednesday evenings at 7.30 pm on BBC Two. The book will feature alongside
We are thrilled to announce that NO MODERNISM WITHOUT LESBIANS by Diana Souhami was announced as winner of the 2021 Polari Book Prize. Praising Souhami, judge and CEO of the National Centre for Writi
We are looking forward to seeing Lauren Johnson, Leanda de Lisle and Estelle Paranque in BBC Two's new 3-part series, The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family. The docudrama uncovers the secrets of Tudor Eng
We are very pleased to announce that NO MODERNISM WITHOUT LESBIANS by Diana Souhami has been shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2021. Now in its tenth year, the Polari Prize is the UK’s first and
"Two actors, a hundred characters, and a 4,000-year-old tale about the strength of the human spirit." Changing Destiny, Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri’s bold new adaptation of one of the world’s first k
We are very pleased to announce that NO MODERNISM WITHOUT LESBIANS by Diana Souhami has been longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2021. Now in its tenth year, the Polari Prize is the UK’s first and l
We are so pleased to announce that The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein by Franny Moyle, The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalised a Nation by Catherine Ostler and Henry 'Chips
VIRAL: THE SEARCH FOR THE ORIGIN OF COVID-19 by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley will be published by HarperCollins in November 2021. It’s the greatest whodunnit mystery of the century: how did the first d
This year AFRICAN EUROPEANS by Olivette Otele has been shortlisted for The 2021 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott together have been shortlisted for The 2021 O
We are happy to share that Alexander Lee and Marius Ostrowski have been made Fellows of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of their contribution to the discipline of history. Since it was fou
We are thrilled to announce that Adam Nicolson has been longlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award with his story THE FEARFUL SUMMER. The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award is
We are thrilled to share that Franny Moyle's biography of the German painter, Hans Holbein - THE KING'S PAINTER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANS HOLBEIN - will be featured as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week
THE DUCHESS COUNTESS, the brilliantly told and evocative biography of Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, Countess of Bristol by Catherine Ostler, has received excellent reviews since its public
This year AFRICAN EUROPEANS by Olivette Otele and HISTORY HAS BEGUN by Bruno Macaes have been longlisted for The 2021 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott togethe
ViacomCBS’s UK network Channel 5 has dropped the first trailer for its hotly-anticipated Anne Boleyn series, in which Jodie Turner-Smith stars as the beheaded wife of King Henry VIII. Your first look
Two-time Oscar-nominated Samantha Morton is set to star as the nefarious Catherine de Medici in the new Starz Original series The Serpent Queen, which is based on Leonie Frieda's CATHERINE DE MEDICI:R
ALBERT AND THE WHALE, an illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea by award-winning author, Philip Hoare, has received outstanding reviews since its publication. In AL
In Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure, Alice Morrison, Arabist and explorer, journeys beneath the veil along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco via the Sahara Desert to the legendary cit