Clare Bullock of Ebury has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in journalist Svenja O’Donnell’s moving memoir Where the Trees Whisper, which uncovers her grandmother’s hidden past and how she was shaped by the loss of her homeland during the Second World War. Andrew Nurnberg Associates have sold rights to Droemer in Germany, Flammarion in France,… Read more »
KAT WOLFE INVESTIGATES by Lauren St John has been shortlisted for CrimeFest’s Best Crime Novel for Children (8-12) in the 2019 awards. Eligible titles were submitted by publishers, and reviewers of fiction for children and young adults voted to establish the shortlist and the winning title. Winners will be announced on 11th May. Best Crime… Read more »
Jonathan Coe attended a speaking event with Flavio Gregori and a dinner with members of the Italian public as part of Crosses of Civilisation, an International Festival of Literature in Venice hosted by Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice where he was presented with the BAUER award. “From the first year of life, Incroci di civiltà celebrated… Read more »
We are delighted that MURMUR (CB Editions) by Will Eaves and IN EXTREMIS: THE LIFE OF WAR CORRESPONDENT MARIE COLVIN (Chatto and Windus) by Lindsey Hilsum have been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Fiction Prize. This is a historic shortlist as the prize celebrates its centenary this year, making it the longest-running literary prize… Read more »
Katy Follain has acquired World rights in Last Christmas: Memories of Christmases past – and hopes for future ones by Greg Wise and Emma Thompson. It is a compilation of short personal essays written by a wide range of people – from actors, politicians and singers to homeless people, charity workers and refugees – about… Read more »
Camille was born in Scotland but is a dual national (French mother and Scottish father) which, it turns out, is a rather handy thing to be in the current climate. She has an MA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Publishing from Edinburgh Napier University and comes to us… Read more »
Will Eaves with MURMUR (CB Editions) is one of two prize winners for the Republic of Consciousness prize 2019 along with Alex Pheby, LUCIA (Galley Beggar Press). They won £3,500 each, with £2,500 going to the press and £1,000 to the author. The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses rewards the best fiction published by publishers… Read more »
Murmur (CB Editions) by Will Eaves, and Sue Prideaux’s I AM DYNAMITE – A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche (Faber) have been longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Open to English-language writers from around the world, the Rathbones Folio Prize, which rewards the best work of literature published in the UK, is the only literary prize… Read more »
Will Eaves’ Alan Turing-inspired novel Murmur (CB Editions) has been shortlisted for the 10th anniversary of the Wellcome Book Prize celebrating the best new books that illuminate the many ways that health, medicine and illness touch our lives. Inspired by the life of Alan Turing, Murmur by Will Eaves fictionalises the devastating period before the mathematician’s suicide in an… Read more »
We are into March, with the Oxford Literary Festival getting closer and closer, and happily even more of our authors have been booked to appear. On Monday, 1st April, Ursula Buchan talks about her biography of John Buchan—BEYOND THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS—explaining how there was much more to her acclaimed grandfather than his classic Hitchcock-adapted thriller…. Read more »