James Tait Black Prize – UK’s oldest literary award
We are thrilled to announce that Jo Baker’s A Country Road, A Tree (Doubleday) and Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You (Picador) have been shortlisted for the oldest book prize in the UK. The winners of the Prizes, presented annually by the University of Edinburgh, will be announced on 14th August at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Read more about What […]
My ‘wild child’ cousin, the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington
Throughout her childhood, Joanna Moorhead never heard a good word from her family about her cousin. When she went to Mexico she found out why she had abandoned them 60 years earlier… Read the full article here. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead is published by Virago on 6 April, £20.
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo is longlisted for the 2017 Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction
We are delighted to report that STAY WITH ME by Aitken Alexander author Ayobami Adebayo has been longlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. Click on the GIF above to see the whole longlist. Read The Bookseller’s author profile of Ayobami here and her interview with The Observer here.
little bits of sky by sue durrant and THE JAM DOUGHNUT THAT RUINED MY LIFE by Mark Lowery
Little Bits of Sky by Sue Durrant has been longlisted for the 2017 Branford Boase Award. The shortlist will be announced on 9th May. You can read more about the award and the other longlisted books here. The Jam Doughnut that Ruined my Life by Mark Lowery has been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Award 2017. It’s the only national […]
Jo Baker and Francis Spufford longlisted for Walter Scott Prize
A COUNTRY ROAD, A TREE by Jo Baker and GOLDEN HILL by Francis Spufford have been longlisted for the 2017 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Read more about the prize and the longlist here.
A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson
“You, Mrs Christie, are going to commit a murder. But, before then, you are going to disappear” On the night of 3rd December 1926, Agatha Christie went missing. Out of that tantalising fact springs a gripping novel in which she finds herself pulled into a case of blackmail and murder. Explore more on the […]
Harriet Harman’s Unfinished Business
Harriet Harman, Labour’s former deputy leader, is as roundly Roundhead as Mr Clark was confidently Cavalier. Her new autobiography, “A Woman’s Work”, is as serious as his books are riotous. Continue reading The Economist article here. ‘I don’t want to be not-liked. It’s just that nobody did for nearly 20 years.’ Read her interview […]
Laird Hunt introduces his new novel THE EVENING ROAD
Watch a series of short interviews of Laird Hunt talking about his new novel THE EVENING ROAD
Francis Spufford Wins Costa First Novel Award for Golden Hill
Francis Spufford has won the prestigious Costa first novel award for Golden Hill, a “dazzlingly original tale” set in 18th-century New York. Read more about his brilliant novel and the other winners here. Golden Hill was also named Sunday Times Novel of the Year. Selected praise for Golden Hill: “A cunningly crafted narrative that, right up to its tour de […]
Ayobami Adebayo speaks about Stay with Me in the bookseller
Stay with Me is published in March 2017 by Canongate.