Olivia Laing awarded Windham-Campbell Prize

9th March 2018

Olivia Laing is one of eight writers who have been recognised by the Windham-Campbell Prize. The judges said that she “searches the depths of the self” in her writing, and described her as “a cartographer of human emotion, mixing memoir, biography and critical engagement with an acute sense of place.”

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Guo and Millwood Hargrave shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize

20th February 2018

Two Janklow authors have been shortlisted for 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 are both on the shortlist which includes six books in total.

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Griffiths hits the Sunday Times bestseller list

19th February 2018

The tenth book in Elly Griffiths’ Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries series, The Dark Angel hit the Sunday Times bestseller lists at number eight this week.

Forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway is off on a working holiday to Italy. But the sunny hills of Lazio hold secrets as dark as any buried in the Norfolk marshes.

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Kiran Millwood Hargrave longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018

15th February 2018

Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s second novel, The Island at the End of Everything has been longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018.

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Sharon Cohen longlisted for Branford Boase 2018

5th February 2018

Sharon Cohen’s debut children’s novel, Starman and Me has been longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2018.

The Branford Boase Award aims to reward the most promising new writers and their editors, and is given annually to the most promising book for seven year-olds and upwards by a first time novelist. The shortlist will be published on 2nd May 2018.

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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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