It’s that time of the year again, when all the summer reading lists are published in full force. This summer may not be entirely back to normal – with many of us perhaps destined for grey-skies staycations – but we are nonetheless overjoyed to see eleven of our books chosen as the page turners to… Read more »
It was announced on Tuesday 6th July that the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), the UK’s charity for the advancement of literature, has appointed 29 new Fellows, including Reni Eddo-Lodge, Will Eaves and Edmund de Waal. Once a year, the RSL elect new Fellows through a process of nomination by existing Fellowship holders, under the… Read more »
Roderick Beaton has made history as the first person to ever win the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award four times. In an online ceremony last Thursday, Beaton was announced to be this year’s winner for his book Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, which was published by Allen Lane in 2019. The Runciman Award began in… Read more »
We are so proud of David Almond and Edmund de Waal, who were recognised on Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday honours list last weekend for their extraordinary contributions to the arts. David Almond was awarded an OBE for his ‘services to literature’. Almond is widely regarded as one of the most important, generous and innovative children’s… Read more »
We are delighted to announce the Felicity Bryan Publishing Mentorship Scheme, created in honour of the pre-eminent literary agent Felicity Bryan, who died in June 2020. The scheme is an annual paid three-month mentorship programme aimed at anyone from an underrepresented background who is interested in pursuing a career in the publishing industry. It is… Read more »
Huge congratulations to Richard, head of the Bodleian Library, whose wonderful Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack, has been shortlisted for the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize. The winner will be announced on June 9th, and the paperback of Burning the Books – complete with striking new cover – will be released on… Read more »
Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race has picked up multiple awards since its release in 2018 – including the Jhalak Prize, the Foyles and Blackwells Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and the British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and now it has another. The Nielsen Gold Bestseller… Read more »
AC Grayling – The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About History, Science and the Mind, and How We Know it (Viking, May) Spanning the areas of science, history and psychology, the philosopher and polymath illustrates how each field has advanced to where it is now; from the rise of technology to quantum theory; from… Read more »
On the very day of the paperback release, Peter Gatrell’s “timely and ambitious” new history of Europe, focusing on how modern migration has radically altered the continent, has scooped the preeminent $10,000 award, presented each year to the best book that transcends a focus on any one country, state, or people to stimulate new ways… Read more »
As part of the celebrations around the 90th anniversary of Gallimard imprint Du Monde Entier in 2021, the French publisher asked indie booksellers to come up with their top ten translated works, and we are delighted to see Anna Hope’s The Ballroom make the list, alongside modern luminaries like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jessie Burton,… Read more »