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| Aitken Alexander Associates welcome Helen Humphreys as a new client and are delighted that she has just been shortlisted by the Canadian Booksellers Association for Author of the Year, the winner will be announced in June. | |
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| LEVIATHAN by Phillip Hoare has won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. |  |
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| We are delighted that both STRANGE MUSIC by Laura Fish (published by Cape) and INTUITION by Allegra Goodman (represented in the UK on behalf of Irene Skolnick and shortly to be published by Atlantic Books) are on the long list for the Orange Prize for Fiction. |  |
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| Ronan O’Brien has won Best Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards with his book Confessions of a Fallen Angel. |  |
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| A CASE OF EXPLODING MANGOES by Mohammed Hanif has won the inaugural Shakti Bhatt First Book Award.
Mohammed Hanif has won the overall 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. The two overall winners of the Best Book and Best First Book were announced in New Zealand at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival on Saturday, 16 May 2009. |
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| MAD, BAD AND SAD by Lisa Appignanesi has won the General Section of the Medical Journalists’ Association Open Book Awards. |  |
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| Marley & Me by John Grogan, which we sub-agent for Brian De Fiore and Company, is now a major motion picture. Staring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson, the film Marley & Me will be in UK cinemas in March 2009. This is a heart-warming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Marley & Me is number 3 on the Sunday Times Best Sellers List. |
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| Julia Gregson has won the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award for EAST OF THE SUN.
Her previous novel, THE WATER HORSE, is about to be reissued and EAST OF THE SUN is being developed for television. |
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| DEVIL MAY CARE by Sebastian Faulks has been shortlisted for the Sainsbury’s Popular Fiction Award. The winner will be announced at the Galaxy British Book Awards. |  |
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| Pen Farthing's ONE DOG AT A TIME continues to appear on the SUNDAY TIMES hardcover non-fiction bestseller list. |  |
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| Louise Rennison has just been crowned the first ever Queen of Teen and is now officially the ruling monarch of teenage fiction! |  |
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| OUR HORSES IN EGYPT by Rosalind Belben has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. |  |
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| Gillian Slovo has been nominated for an Amnesty Press award for an article she wrote for the New Statesman on asylum seeking children in detention. |  |
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| CONTENTED DEMENTIA by Oliver James has been a top ten bestseller this year. |  |
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| INSIDE THE WHALE by Jennie Rooney has been shortlisted for the Waterstones New Writer of the Year, in association with the Daily Mail. The winner will be announced at the Galaxy British Book Awards. |  |
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