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
Ultra by Tobias Jones, published on 19th September 2019 by Head of Zeus, was shorlisted in the category 'Football Book of the Year 2020'. The Sports Book Awards, now in its 18th year, is the major ann
The 2020 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing longlist was announced on 5th June, World Environment Day. David Gange's book THE FRAYED ATLANTIC EDGE (William Collins 2019) is on the UK Nature Writing l
In Rewild Yourself, Simon Barnes delivers 23 activities to bring the world around us a little closer. An impassioned plea to re-engage our senses with nature, Rewild Yourself was published in paperbac
The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually by the Wolfson Foundation to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience. First awarded in 1972, it remains a beacon of the b
Ultra by Tobias Jones, published on 19th September 2019 by Head of Zeus, was longlisted in the category 'Football Book of the Year 2020'. The Sports Book Awards, now in its 18th year, is the major ann
We were delighted to see Asma’s Chef Profile on BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen on 7th March 2020 – click here to see Asma’s inspiring story and what she has planned next. She then cooked up a feast of ma
Stephen Garrett, Executive Producer of The Night Manager and the forthcoming HBO series The Undoing, has optioned the TV rights to BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera’s non-fiction book RUSSIANS
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.
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