Henry Porter Shortlisted for Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2019

16th May 2019

The Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize shortlist has been revealed with Henry Porter’s Firefly being one of six novels nominated for the £15,000 prize.

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Elly Griffiths Featured in Richard and Judy Summer Book Club 2019

16th May 2019

W H Smith has announced the Richard and Judy Summer Book Club choices for 2019, featuring The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

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Laura Freeman Shortlisted for Two Guild of Food Writers Awards

15th May 2019

Laura Freeman has been shortlisted for both the First Book award and the Food Book award by the 2019 Guild of Food Writers Awards, for The Reading Cure, released in paperback earlier this year.

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Derek Miller and Elly Griffiths Both Longlisted for CWA Daggers

13th May 2019

Two Janklow & Nesbit UK authors are in the running for two Crime Writers’ Association awards this year. Derek Miller has been longlisted for the Gold Dagger for American By Day, and Elly Griffiths has been longlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for The Stranger Diaries.

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Tara Isabella Burton Nominated for Shirley Jackson Award 2018

3rd May 2019

Tara Isabella Burton has been nominated for the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award for best novel, for Social Creature.

In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, the Shirley Jackson Awards have been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

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Henry Porter Longlisted for Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2019

2nd May 2019

The longlist for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2019 has been announced, and features Henry Porter’s thrilling novel, Firefly.

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Elly Griffiths Longlisted for Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel Award

15th April 2019

The 2019 longlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award sees the return of previous shortlisted author Elly Griffiths, with her latest Ruth Galloway novel, The Dark Angel.

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Olivia Laing Shortlisted for James Tait Black Prize

4th April 2019

Crudo by Olivia Laing is one of four novels competing for the £10,000 James Tait Black award for fiction, now in its 100th year.

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Humble Pi is First Maths Book to Become Sunday Times Bestseller

19th March 2019

Humble Pi by Matt Parker reached the number one slot in the Sunday Times bestseller list last week, beating the long-running bestselling autobiography by Michelle Obama.

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Rutger Bregman Features on The Daily Show After Media Flurry

13th March 2019

This week Rutger Bregman has appeared on the eminent Daily Show with Trevor Noah after causing a storm over his viral ‘taxes, taxes, taxes’ speech

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