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
Congratulations to Katie Engelhart who has won the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting for “What Happened in Room 10?”. The judges said, “Focussing on one room in the Life Care Center of Kirkland
Starz continues to double down on European royalty with its latest series order – an eight-part drama about Catherine de Medici. The cable network has ordered The Serpent Queen, based on Leonie Frieda
The 2020 Arnold Bennett Prize was awarded to Lisa Blower for IT'S GONE DARK OVER BILL'S MOTHER'S. The Arnold Bennett Prize is an annual literary award which was instituted in 2017 as part of the Arnol
British model and Queen & Slim actress Jodie Turner-Smith is to play Anne Boleyn in a convention-defying Channel 5 drama made by the Sony-backed Stan & Ollie producer Fable Pictures. Deadline
CRICKET COUNTRY:AN INDIAN ODYSSEY IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE by Prashant Kidambi, published by Oxford University Press on 25th July 2019, has been awarded the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2020. The Lord Abe
Julia Copus has been selected as the winner of the first annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry for her book GIRLHOOD. Organised by Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with The Derek Walcott Festival in P
Professor Marion Turner has been awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for her book Chaucer: A European Life (Princeton University Press, 2019). The award was established in April 1888 by Mrs Rose Mar
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