When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann Book Trailer out now!
The book trailer for Ariana Neumann’s When Time Stopped is out now. ‘Beautifully told’ John le Carré ‘More than just history’ Michael Palin ‘Truly exceptional’ Jon Snow ‘Absolutely remarkable’ Edmund de Waal ‘Beautifully written’ Stephen D. Smith In this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding […]
Mary Jean Chan and Jack Fairweather win Costa Book Awards 2019
Mary Jean Chan’s Flèche and Jack Fairweather’s The Volunteer are category winners at the Costa Book Awards 2019. The overall winner, for Costa Book of the Year, will be announced on 28th January 2020. Click here to read more.
Rachel Clarke’s Dear Life and Thant Myint-U’s The Hidden History of Burma featured as Independent’s books of the month
Martin Chilton at Independent chooses and reviews six titles for their monthly book column. Among those are The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U and Dear Life by Rachel Clarke. Chilton writes: The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U Some of the problems of Burma (Myanmar) go back to colonialism. George Orwell, who was […]
The Sunday Times chooses Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other and Francis Spufford’s Golden Hill as books of the decade
More seems to have changed in the book world these last 10 years than in almost any decade since the arrival of the Penguin paperback in the 1930s. Since 2010, we’ve had the rise of the ebook and predicted death of the physical book, followed by the decline of the ebook and resurgence of the […]
Barack Obama Chooses Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other as one of his favourite books of 2019
We were thrilled to see Barack Obama choose Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo as one of his favourite books of 2019, about which he said “As we wind down 2019, I wanted to share with you my annual list of favorites that made the last year a little brighter. We’ll start with books today […]
Michael Fassbender options Kevin Barry’s Night Boat to Tangier
Kevin Barry’s Night Boat to Tangier (Canongate) will be adapted for the big screen by Hollywood actor Michael Fassbender. Andrew Eaton of Turbine Studios and Conor McCaughan and Fassbender of DMC Films are jointly optioning the multiple-prize-winning Irish author’s book for feature film adaptation. Barry is adapting the novel for the screen himself. The deal was handled […]
Dr Dean Burnett has won an award from the British Neuroscience Association
Dr Dean Burnett won the award for Public Engagement of Neuroscience in 2019. Doctor Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist, lecturer, author, blogger, podcaster, pundit, science communicator, comedian and numerous other things, depending on who’s asking and what they need. Previously employed as a psychiatry tutor and lecturer at the Cardiff University Centre for Medical Education, Dean […]
Keira Knightley Storms The 1970 Miss World Pageant In The Trailer For Rebecca Frayn’s Misbehaviour
In recent months, we’ve seen a slew of politically charged roles from Keira Knightley (case in point: Official Secrets and The Aftermath). Now the trailer for Misbehaviour, unveiled exclusively with British Vogue, offers a first glimpse of the 34-year-old Oscar nominee as feminist activist Sally Alexander. Due out in March 2020, the film reimagines Alexander’s storming of the 1970 Miss […]
The Little Book That Could: How Bernardine Evaristo Became An International Writer-to-Watch in 2019
Earlier this fall, the Anglo-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo made history when she became the first black woman to win the Man Booker Prize for her ninth novel, Girl, Woman, Other. In an unprecedented move, the judges opted to honor two books for 2019, and Evaristo shared the prize with Margaret Atwood. She is already well-known as a writer and […]
Quietus Writers pick Max Porter’s LANNY as one of their fiction titles of the year
Quietus writers pick the year’s best fiction and non-fiction. Here’s what they had to say about Max Porter’s Lanny: Beyond all other things, Max Porter is an author who writes about love. In Grief Is A Thing With Feathers he offered a portrait of a family coping with a situation and a loss that for most of us […]