Guo and Millwood Hargrave nominated for Jhalak Prize

1st February 2018

Two Janklow authors have been selected for the longlist of the 2017 Jhalak Prize. Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Island at the End of Everything and Xiaolu Guo’s Once Upon A Time in the East have both been longlisted.

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Guo and Rutherford shortlisted at NBCC Awards

23rd January 2018

Two J&N authors have been selected for the category shortlists of the National Book Critics Circle Awards.

Adam Rutherford’s debut, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, has been nominated for Non-Fiction, while Xiaolu Guo’s Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China (Once Upon a Time in the East in the UK) has been nominated for Autobiography.

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Rebecca Stott wins at Costa Book Awards

3rd January 2018

Rebecca Stott’s powerful memoir, In the Days of Rain, has won the Costa Biography Book Award.

The judges said that the book was “a stand-out winner. We were all gripped and astonished by this unique life and the exquisite way she tells it.”

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Kiran Millwood Hargrave shortlisted for Blue Peter Book Awards

24th November 2017

Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s gorgeous second novel, The Island at the End of Everything, has been shortlisted for Best Story at the Blue Peter Book Awards.

Since 2000, the enormously popular and influential Blue Peter Book Awards have been recognising and celebrating the best authors, the most creative illustrators and the greatest reads for children.

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Three Janklow titles on the Costa Book Awards shortlists

22nd November 2017

Janklow & Nesbit has authors in three categories of this year’s Costa Book Awards.

In Biography, Xiaolu Guo’s Once Upon a Time in the East and Rebecca Stott’s In the Days of Rain make up half of the total shortlist for the category.

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MJ Arlidge Once Again on Bestseller List

12th October 2017

MJ Arlidge has continued his bestselling streak with the paperback release of the newest DI Helen Grace title, Love Me Not, which entered the Sunday Times Bestseller List at number 9 this week.

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Harriet Cummings shortlisted in BAMB Readers Awards

6th October 2017

Harriet Cummings, whose debut novel We All Begin as Strangers was released in April this year, has been nominated by booksellers for the shortlist of the Breakthrough Author category in the Books are my Bag Readers Awards 2017.

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Ed Yong shortlisted for Science Book Prize

3rd August 2017

I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong has been selected for the shortlist for The Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2017. The prize is in its 30 year, and celebrates the best science writing for a non-specialist audience.

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Derek Miller shortlisted for Gold Dagger

2nd August 2017

Derek B. Miller’s novel The Girl in Green has been selected for the 2017 shortlist of the Gold Dagger Award.

The Girl in Green is a brilliantly original and timely tragi-comedy about the consequences of the war in Syria and misguided attempts to help.

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David Bellos longlisted for HWA awards

4th July 2017

David Bellos’ The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventures of Les Miserables has been longlisted for the Historical Writers’ Association’s Non-Fiction Crown 2017 awards.

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