Updates

The ‘breathtaking’ novel Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj, has been shortlisted alongside four other novels in the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Awards. ‘Enthralling and often transcendent, these books give us hope for the prospects of fiction-making in an uncertain future and fill us with gratitude for the resiliency of art.’

Tiananmen Square by Lai Wen has been longlisted alongside eleven other ‘brilliant debuts’ for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2025.

The Book of Days by Francesca Kay has been longlisted for the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which ‘shines a spotlight on the very best new historical fiction’.

Harold Wilson: A Twentieth Century Man by Alan Johnson has won the award for Best Biography by a Parliamentarian.

The compelling debut novel Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj, ‘brimming with hope and empathy’, has been longlisted alongside nine other novels in the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Awards.

The Daily Mail Book of the Year The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck has been longlisted alongside nine other novels in the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Awards.

Harold Wilson: A Twentieth Century Man by Alan Johnson has been shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards in the Best Biography by a Parliamentarian category.

‘Terrific short biography’ | ‘An informed, gripping tale’ | ‘A wise, timely reminder of what greed can do’

As we round off 2024 we’re delight to commemorate the year with nine Books of 2024 selected across Swift and Forum.

• Moscow X by David McCloskey
• Vassal State by Angus Hanton
• Tribal by Michael Morris
• The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
• The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck
• Morning After the Revolution by Nellie Bowles
• Harold Wilson by Alan Johnson
• The Care Dilemma by David Goodhart
• Troubled by Rob Henderson

Congratulations to DéLana R. A. Dameron whose novel Redwood Court has been chosen as a finalist for the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction.

The Financial Times Business Book of the Year Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together by Michael Morris has been shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2024

Anne Mette Hancock‘s ‘complex thriller’ The Collector has made the shortlist for the 2024 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel.

‘Beautiful and understated. A totally absorbing account of life as a young wife in the dying days of Henry VIII’s reign.’