Hannah Fry’s Hello World has made the shortlist for the £30,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, which celebrates the best in non-fiction writing.
Sarah Jayne Blakemore has been awarded the 2018 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize for Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain, in a ceremony hosted by Professor Brian Cox.
Olivia Laing’s Crudo has been shortlisted for the eminent Goldsmiths Prize, announced on the 26th September at Goldsmiths University in south London, accompanied by the New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize Lecture, given by Elif Shafak.
Nell Stevens, author of Mrs Gaskell and Me, has been shortlisted for this year’s BBC National Short Story Award for her story, ‘The Minutes’, detailing the pretentious world of hapless art student activists as they protest the demolition of a South London tower block with art.
Janklow & Nesbit client and previous winner, Charles Cumming, has made the shortlist for this year’s McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year, alongside authors Lin Anderson, Chris Brookmyre and Liam McIlvanney.
An extraordinary three titles by Janklow & Nesbit UK clients have been shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2018: Inventing Ourselves by Sarah Jayne Blakemore, The Unexpected Truth About Animals by Lucy Cooke and Hello World by Hannah Fry.
Here Design have been awarded D&AD Wood Pencil award for Creative Excellence in Book Design for THISISME, FULLSTOP. Exploring the secret lives of punctuation marks, THISISME, FULLSTOP takes the reader on a playful typographic journey through the wonderful world of grammar.
Elly Griffiths has been awarded ‘The Holmes and Watson Award for Best Detective Duo’ and ‘The Dead Good Recommends Award for Most Recommended Book’ at the Dead Good Reader Awards 2018.
Janklow & Nesbit client, Olivia Laing, has been shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2018.
The six-strong 2018 shortlist represents some of the most exciting fiction and non-fiction published in the UK and US today and showcases a rich variety of work by pioneering writers.
Elly Griffiths, author behind the Ruth Galloway series, has topped this year’s Dead Good Reader Awards shortlists by securing a total three nominations, while crime writers Ruth Ware, Clare Mackintosh, Tony Kent and Teresa Driscoll follow close behind with two nods apiece.