Last week was event-packed for us here at the agency, beginning on Monday with the launch of Clover Stroud’s “tender, blazing, funny, unflinching” (Rachel Joyce) My Wild and Sleepless Nights at the Bloomsbury Club, which set Instagram on fire and even featured a special “Sleepless Night” martini: You can buy Clover’s brutal and beautiful memoir… Read more »
TV Update: Seeing Matthew on The One Show last night – with the pupil he helped overcome his stammer on Educating Yorkshire, Musharaf Asghar – was a hugely moving experience. Mushy spoke with wit and warmth about his life since the documentary, about helping other stammerers, and about his new career speaking motivationally, just as… Read more »
Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi’s Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change has been optioned for TV in a lucrative deal by Sid Gentle Films, the company behind BBC America’s Killing Eve and ITV’s The Durrells. The book, which was the 2019 flagship title of Stormzy’s imprint Merky Books, has been called “brilliant”… Read more »
Called the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals by none other than Colin Thubron, the Oxford Lit Fest is one of the highlights of the bookish year, and as usual it’s packed to the elegant sandstone domes with a vast array of our authors talking wisdom on a vast array of topics. And so,… Read more »
Renowned garden designer, plantswoman and author Penelope Hobhouse has been given the SGD Lifetime Achievement Award at the SGD Awards Ceremony 2020. You can watch the wonderful short film made to mark the award here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64PVAakyHjQ The SGD Lifetime Achievement Award, which is gifted by the Council of the Society of Garden Designer, is granted… Read more »
We’re delighted that our wonderful fiction agents Carrie and Caroline, plus our author Anna Hope, writer of last year’s critically acclaimed Expectation, will be judging this year’s Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award. The Award is open to unrepresented and unpublished authors for a novel in any adult fiction genre, with a deadline of May… Read more »
We are delighted to see that Gill Hornby’s “magnificent” (Spectator), “richly imagined” (Mail on Sunday), and “entirely Austenian” (Observer) novel Miss Austen has made the Sunday Times hardback bestseller list, coming in at number six in its first week of release, on only three days sale. The news comes on the back of a weekend… Read more »
We are delighted to announce that Steve Coogan’s production company Baby Cow has optioned Gill Hornby’s Miss Austen for a long-form TV drama. “Gill has brought such wit, ingenuity and heartbreaking tenderness to this literary mystery, turning it into a terrifically compelling and relevant novel,” said Baby Cow CEO Christine Langan. “Not only does she… Read more »
Each spring, Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar® Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre, and this year, we are delighted to announce that Ursula Buchan has been nominated in the Best Critical/Biographical category for her wonderful life of her grandfather, the spy thriller writer and diplomat, John Buchan,… Read more »
It was a pleasure to tune in this morning to hear Gill speak so eloquently and passionately about her new novel on Radio 4. The full interview is available to catch up with on BBC Sounds – after the moving and inspiring interview with Gail Porter – but here are a few choice snippets… GILL:… Read more »