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Lucy Hughes Hallett has been awarded the 2024 Biographer's Club Exceptional Contribution to Biography Award. You can read the full announcement here.
Virago have triumphed in a passionate five-way auction for Natural Disaster, the new novel by Lisa Owens. A 'darkly funny and sharply observed novel which charts one woman’s increasingly desperate attempts to spend a last, special day with her children before returning to the ‘real world’ of her office job'. Virago will publish in July 2026 with a 'major and ambitious' campaign. You can read the full Bookseller article here.
Firefly have acquired a third YA novel from Yoto Carnegie nominee Luke Palmer. Live is a stunning coming of age novel about the power of music and song. Firefly will publish in June 2025. You can read the full Bookseller article here.
Ebury imprint Rider have acquired Scorpions, the extraordinary memoir about living with OCD by British actor Tuppence Middleton. Rider will publish in February 2025 and you can read the full announcement here.
Titan have acquired The Captive a 'brilliantly subversive' horror novel by Ned Beauman written under the pseudonym Kit Burgoyne. Screen rights have already been optioned and Titan will publish in 2025. You can read the full Bookseller announcement here.
Annie Worsley has been longlisted for Scotland's National Book Awards 2024 for her book Windswept; Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands. You can see the full longlist here.
Head of Zeus have acquired The Wedding Forecast the debut adult novel from Australian YA author Nina Kenwood. An 'addictive, feel-good romantic comedy', they will publish under their Aria imprint in July 2025. You can read the full Bookseller article here.
Scholastic have acquired Kill Creatures, a 'mind bending' YA thriller from Rory Power. You can read the full Bookseller article here.
We are thrilled that THE SEARCH PARTY by Hannah Richell has been shortlisted for the 2024 Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction. You can see the full shortlist here.
Sarah Perry has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her breath-taking new novel ENLIGHTENMENT. The judges called it 'a novel of great ambition..... full of passion for the life of ideas, richly and satisfyingly written'. You can see the full longlist here.
Doubleday have acquired Greater Sins the debut historical novel from Gabrielle Griffiths. Set in Cabrach, Aberdeenshire in 1915, Greater Sins follows what happens in an isolated community when a woman’s body is discovered perfectly preserved in a peat bog. You can read the full Bookseller announcement here.
Little, Brown have acquired three more novels from Sunday Times bestseller Mark Billingham. The novels will include the third instalment of his new DS Miller series as well as the landmark twentieth book in his award-winning Tom Thorne series. You can read the full Bookseller announcement here.
Brilliant to see that THE LAST DANCE by Mark Billingham has been shortlisted for this year's Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. You can see the full shortlist here.
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow has won the 2024 Author's Club Best First Novel award for her brilliant debut novel All The Little Bird Hearts. You can read the full announcement here.
We are thrilled that Kate Grenville has been shortlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction for her brilliant novel Restless Dolly Maunder, congratulations Kate. You can see the full shortlist here.
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow has been shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award for her brilliant book All The Little Bird Hearts. Congratulations Viktoria. You can see the full shortlist here.
Dinner the new cookbook from Meera Sodha will be published by Fig Tree. Dinner is “a fresh and joyful celebration of the power of a good meal” and will be published this August. You can read the full Bookseller announcement here.
Sort Of Books have acquired the latest novel from Folio Prize winner Michelle de Kretser. Theory & Practice follows a young woman in Melbourne who is researching Virginia Woolf when she makes a discovery that throws her work into disarray. The book will be published in February 2025. You can read the full Bookseller announcement here.
Simon & Schuster have acquired Wild About You, a romance novel by Sophie Loxton in a 24hr pre-empt. The perfect swoon-worthy romance, the novel will be published in summer 2025. You can read the full Bookseller announcement here.
We are thrilled that Kate Grenville has been longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction for her brilliant novel Restless Dolly Maunder. You can see the full longlist here.
All the Little Bird Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow has been longlisted for the 2024 Author's Club Best First Novel Award. You can see the full longlist here.
Fourth Estate will publish The Scapegoat the new book from prize winning biographer Lucy Hughes-Hallett. The Scapegoat charts the meteoric rise and fall of James I’s favourite, the Duke of Buckingham and will be published by Fourth Estate in October 2024. You can read the full bookseller announcement here.
We are thrilled to announce Ottolenghi Comfort the upcoming cookbook from Yotam Ottolenghi. Written alongside Helen Goh, Verena Lochmuller and Tara Wigley Ottolenghi Comfort features over 100 recipes, including "classic new takes" on pasta, potatoes, tray bakes and soups - this is comfort food Ottolenghi style. The book will publish this September and you can read the full announcement here.
Annie Worsley has been shortlisted for the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writing for her brilliant book Windswept. You can see the full shortlist here.