The longlist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, now restricted to non-fiction, was announced on 7th May, featuring 15 titles. Among those longlisted are IN EXTREMIS: THE LIFE OF WAR CORRRESPONDENT MARIE COLVIN by Lindsey Hilsum (Chatto & Windus) and THE GROWTH DELUSION: THE WEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF NATIONS by David Pilling (Bloomsbury Publishing). The… Read more »
We are absolutely thrilled that Will Eaves’ Alan Turing inspired novel, MURMUR won the Wellcome Book Prize 2019. Winners were announced last night. ‘Will Eaves’s fictionalised account of the chemical castration of Alan Turing, Murmur, was hailed as “a future classic” as it won the £30,000 Wellcome book prize on Wednesday night, only the third… Read more »
We are thrilled that Professor Josephine Quinn has been named a Fellow of the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers for 2019-20. Previous Fellows include Hari Kunzru, Hermione Lee, Colm Toibin, and Colson Whitehead. Josephine Quinn is associate professor of ancient history at the University of Oxford,… Read more »
Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Thomas Cromwell: A Life (Allen Lane) is on a shortlist of four for the 2019 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. Roy Foster (chair) said: “These biographies demonstrate how four remarkable people not only made their own history, but sensed the zeitgeist and came to personify it – which is exactly the kind… 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 »
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 »