We’re thrilled to see Ellen Hawley’s novel Other People Manage included on the Polari Prize longlist. ‘Rich in the pleasures of good storytelling … so intelligent about the essential raggedness of real lives’ – TLS
Updates
Mercia’s Take has won The Betty Trask Prize
‘Master stylist’ Daniel Wiles’ debut novel has won the Betty Trask Prize in the 2023 SoA Awards.
Time to Think has been shortlisted for the Orwell Political Writing Book Prize 2023
Congratulations to Hannah Barnes, whose Sunday Times bestselling and ‘deeply reported, scrupulously non-judgmental’ book Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children has been shortlisted in the 2023 Orwell Prizes for the Political Writing Book Prize.
The Corpse Flower by Anne Mette Hancock has been longlisted in the 2023 CWA Daggers Awards
Anne Mette Hancock’s bestselling novel The Corpse Flower has been longlisted for the 2023 Crime Writers Association Daggers Awards in The Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger category.
Dilla Time by Dan Charnas has won the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Congratulations to Dan Charnas for his recent win at the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm was praised as ‘a beautiful and daring rendering of a brilliant young man with all too human qualities and frailties, who died tragically young’. Judges say: ‘Charnas has created perhaps the truest tribute to Dilla and his legacy: a work of funky artistic achievement’.
Riveting Reads for International Women’s Day
This International Women’s Day we’re bringing your attention to just a few of the powerful, enigmatic, thoughtful, funny and thrilling reads we have the pleasure of publishing
Swift’s 2022 Books of the Year
‘A book to gorge on’ | ‘Serpentine storytelling’ | ‘Definitive’
We’re thrilled to celebrate the end of 2022 with six Books of the Year selected across our non-fiction and fiction lists.
- Suspect by Scott Turow
- An Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler
- You’ve Been Played by Adrian Hon
- Dilla Time by Dan Charnas
- The Come Up by Jonathan Abrams
- Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves
Bret Easton Ellis launches The Shards, his first novel for over 10 years, in London and Oxford
Bret Easton Ellis will be visiting the UK in February 2023 to mark the publication of his new novel
Bret Easton Ellis’ First Novel in Thirteen Years The Shards Publishes in January
LA, 1981. Buckley College in heat. The Shards tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city
Ellen Hawley’s Books for Pride
If anyone’s told you lately that the novel is dead, they haven’t been taking the pulse of LGBTQ fiction, which is not only alive but keeping some of the most isolated members of the community alive by offering them a connection. It brings them the news.
The High House by Jessie Greengrass has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022
Jessie Greengrass‘s unforgettable novel The High House has made the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 shortlist. Winners will be announced Thursday 14th July 2022.
The High House by Jessie Greengrass has been shortlisted in the 2022 Encore Awards
Jessie Greengrass has received widespread acclaim for her novel The High House and we are thrilled to see it celebrated on The Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award 2022 shortlist. Winners announced Thursday 24th May.