Jessica Andrews on Class and Education for the Independent
My experience of being a young, working class woman is of being shamefully hungry. I desire so many things I am not supposed to…
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2018 in Books
The Guardian has chosen Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls (Hamish Hamilton), Sebastian Faulks’ Paris Echo (Hutchinson) and Mohammed Hanif’s Red Birds…
Birkbeck scholarship announcement in The Bookseller
We are delighted to announce our upcoming Creative Writing Scholarship with Birkbeck University. From The Bookseller: Literary agency Aitken Alexander Associates is…
The best books of 2017 as featured in the press
Fiction THE STORY OF A BRIEF MARRIAGE by Anuk Arudpragasam – winner of the DSC Prize, Guardian STAY WITH ME by Ayobami Adebayo –…
Ayòbámi Adébáyò
We are delighted to announce that Sarah Jessica Parker has picked Ayobami Adebayo’s STAY WITH ME for the American Library Association’s Book Club Central…
Clare Alexander – Looking to the Future
Caroline Moorehead on 2017 Baillie Gifford Longlist
We are delighted to announce that Caroline Moorehead’s A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Chatto & Windus) has been longlisted…
Elise Valmorbida’s The Madonna of the Mountains will be the first title in Faber & Liberty Partnership
Liberty Jacket for The Madonna of the Moutains Faber has announced a “unique” publishing partnership with Liberty London Fabrics. The collaboration will unite…
Gillon Aitken
It is with deep sadness we announce that, after a period of ill health, Gillon Aitken has died peacefully this morning. A towering figure…
It is with great sadness that we report Louise Rennison has died
The author of Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging has died, but her words will live on. Here are our favourite quotes to celebrate her life and the books she gave us