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Iqbal Hussain wins The World of Interiors x Montblanc Writing Competition
Iqbal’s first children’s book, 'The Night I Borrowed Time', will be published by Puffin in 2026. Though today he lives happily in London with his partner and dog, his story details his traumatic departure from Blackburn. His ‘One Lasting Thing’ is a cobblestone lifted from the streets he grew up on. . Evoking a community eroded as feet wear away cobblestone, the piece impressed the judges with its sense of time passing: ‘a year in the life of waiting for the bulldozers’, judge Indira Varma said.
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Winnie M Li’s new novel published 7 August 2025
WHAT WE LEFT UNSAID is published in hardback by Orion.
As siblings retrace old steps on an epic journey along Route 66, they are led to finally share the parts of their lives they've tried to keep hidden. Along the way, they can learn the truth of what really happened in their fractured past - a past they now have the chance to mend.
With 'powerful and beautiful writing' (Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author), Winnie M Li weaves an emotive and eye-opening exploration of family, race, growing up, and what it means to be American.
Alice Lascelles’s THE MARTINI included in top ten nominees for 2025 Spirited Awards
Since its founding in 2007, the Spirited Awards has become one of the industry’s most sought-after awards, recognizing beverage professionals, products, and establishments across every facet of the spirits and cocktail community on a global scale. The Spirited Awards honour excellence across the global bar industry, recognizing achievements in both domestic and international categories. The program includes awards for writing and media, as well as top honors that celebrate the best in the world—such as World’s Best Cocktail Bar and World’s Best Cocktail Menu.
Libby Page’s next novel THIS BOOK MADE ME THINK OF YOU sold in 11 territories
Libby’s next title is scheduled to be published by Viking in the UK and Berkley in North America in January 2026
“When Matilda receives a call on her birthday telling her there’s a gift from her fiancé waiting for her at the local bookshop, it comes as quite a shock. Joe died five months ago, and she has ached for him every day since.
And so Matilda embarks on her year of books – one for each month carefully chosen by Joe – on a series of literary-inspired adventures which will take her from bustling sidewalks in New York and the tree-lined avenues of Paris to the tranquil Tuscan countryside and the white sands of Bali. With the help of bookshop owner, Alfie, Matilda starts to discover who she is now, after Joe. Can her year of books show her how to live, dream, and love, again?”
STILL LIFE in pre-production for TV adaptation
New Empire Pictures (NEP), the London production and development joint venture founded by Downton Abbey producer Liz Trubridge and actor, writer and producer Matt Barber, has secured the rights to adapt Sarah Winman’s best-selling novel Still Life.
A TV project is said to be in advanced development, with Winman adapting her own book alongside co-writer Lewis Georgeson (Dream Team).
Still Life tells the story of an unlikely friendship between British soldier Ulysses Temple and an alleged spy in Tuscany, Italy, during the Second World War.
Barber, CEO of NEP, said: “This is the first project we are announcing from our slate of diverse and exciting material. It’s an immense privilege to be developing this with Sarah herself and we are very excited about the quality that this team and project promise to deliver.”
Manda Scott’s ANY HUMAN POWER published in paperback 6 March 2025
'Instantly immersive and compelling, rich and strange, human and humane, and most of all inspiring... an extraordinary story' Lee Child
'An extraordinary, ground-breaking, high-wire act of a novel' Liz Jensen, author of Your Wild and Precious Life
From the bestselling author of mythic, page-turning, world-building thrillers comes this present-day story of three generations thrown to the forefront of a political crisis and the uprising that follows.
ANY HUMAN POWER is published by September Publishing.
Clover Stroud’s THE GIANT ON THE SKYLINE published in paperback 6 March 2025
‘A wonderful, wise, magical book… The Giant on the Skyline is really quite incredible.’
Rachael Lucas
‘Timeless and yet firmly rooted in time, magical and mysterious and yet earthy and sensual.’
Lily Dunn
THE GIANT ON THE SKYLINE is published by Penguin.
Alice Lascelles recieves double nomination for Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2025
Alice is shortlisted for THE MARTINI and for her journalism. The shortlist celebrates the very best in food and drink writing, publishing, broadcasting and photography since 2013.
The winners will be announced on Thursday 1st May 2025 .
The shortlist and winners are selected by an independent panel of expert judges chaired by Angela Hartnett OBE.
Emma Barnett’s MATERNITY SERVICE published 13 March 2025
”It’s a bloody weird experience, maternity leave, and it’s OK to acknowledge that,” Emma Barnett writes in Maternity Service, her short, no-nonsense guide to surviving this curious – and relatively recent – phenomenon that can feel, in the thick of it, like a temporary exile from the outside world. For many new mothers, the abrupt severance from their professional lives and previous identities can leave them flailing in a strange and destabilising limbo where it seems almost taboo to voice any feelings of dislocation, in case these come across as a lack of maternal devotion.
MATERNITY SERVICE, the essential companion for every mother embarking on maternity leave, is published by Fig Tree.
Torsten Bell’s Sunday Times bestseller GREAT BRITAIN published in paperback 20 February 2025
The essential blueprint for a better future, from the leading economist and Labour rising star is out now in paperback.
‘Stellar: brilliant, incredibly pragmatic’ Rory Stewart
‘No one has done more to re-inject sanity into our national policy’ Emily Maitlis
'Everyone should read this book if they care about our country' Tom Baldwin
Sir Trevor McDonald on Cricket shortlisted for Cricket Book of the Year 2025
The Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards, in association with The Sunday Times, is a major annual promotion for sports writing and publishing. The awards exist to highlight the most outstanding sports books of the previous calendar year to showcase their merits and to enhance their reputation and profile.
Sir Trevor McDonald’s ON CRICKET published by Dialogue 19 October 2024
Sir Trevor McDonald is one of Britain's most celebrated broadcasters and his devotion for cricket is almost as well-known as his legendary professional achievements.
In this inspirational memoir, On Cricket, Sir Trevor explores his childhood in the Caribbean and celebrates his life-long love of the sport that followed him no matter where in the world his illustrious journalistic career would take him.
An exceptional storyteller and commentator, On Cricket is a love letter to the sport and a study of Sir Trevor's oldest and most consistent passion: watching, debating and playing the gentleman's game.
Alice Lascelle’s ultimate guide to the martini published by Quadrille 26.9.24
In THE MARTINI, award-winning journalist, Financial Times columnist and cocktail expert Alice Lascelles goes on a deep-dive into one her favourite drinks – one that’s bewitched bartenders, artists, authors, film-makers and barflies for more than a century.
'When it's Martini Hour, you need a guide and there is no one better than Alice Lascelles.' – Jay Rayner
Libby Page moves to Viking with two book deal
Editorial director Vikki Moynes acquired world all-language rights for two ‘heartrending yet ultimately hopeful’ love stories: THIS BOOK MADE ME THINK OF YOU and a further, untitled, novel.
I’m delighted Libby’s new publishing home is with Vikki and the team at Viking. I know they will create brilliant books together - their ambition to find a whole new audience for her has been energising.
THIS BOOK MADE ME THINK OF YOU will be published in 2026.
Fig Tree to publish Emma Barnett’s essential maternity leave companion in March 2025
When Emma Barnett began her second maternity leave, she realised that despite having been there before, as soon as her first leave had finished, the rose-tinted lenses descended and she had immediately forgotten what the experience was actually like when you’re in it. This collective forgetting, which leads to well-meaning comments such as: ‘enjoy every minute’ and ‘treasure this special time’, is doing a disservice to women, leaving them unprepared for the more complicated reality. Emma’s book is a celebration and acknowledgement of the work of being on maternity leave, with its soaring highs and challenging lows and its impact on how women feel about themselves and their purpose.
Renegade Books acquires Sir Trevor McDonald’s memoir, ON CRICKET.
Dialogue managing director Sharmaine Lovegrove acquired world rights to ON CRICKET , to be published by Renegade Books on 17th October 2024.
The publisher described it as “a moving and rousing sporting memoir”. Dialogue added: “In this inspirational memoir, On Cricket, Sir Trevor explores his childhood in the Caribbean and celebrates his lifelong love of the sport that followed him no matter where in the world his illustrious journalistic career would take him.
Libby Pages’ THE LIFELINE published in paperback 15.8.24
For fans of THE LIDO, THE LIFELINE is the big-hearted and life-affirming follow-up novel by Sunday Times bestselling author Libby Page.
Some books you read, others you devour. I inhaled this like a good custard cream' AMANDA PROWSE
'An honest and uplifting story about motherhood, mental health and the power of human connection. Libby Page writes with such warmth and compassion, I know readers will want to dive in to this beautiful novel' FREYA SAMPSON
Sarah Winman among authors to pen new introductions to five novels by E M Forster
David Nicholls, Colm Tóibín, Elif Shafak, Kamila Shamsie and Sarah Winman will pen new introductions to five novels by E M Forster, which will be reissued by Sceptre as hardbacks in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the first publication of the author’s last novel, A Passage to India (Penguin Classics).
The project is being spearheaded by Sceptre’s executive publisher, Federico Andornino, and assistant editor Holly Knox, and the first three reissues will be published on 7th November 2024.
Torsten Bell’s GREAT BRITAIN? enters Sunday Times Bestseller list at no7 in first week
Thrilling and essential pre-election reading from one of our most influential economists
'No one has done more to re-inject sanity into our national policy debates' EMILY MAITLIS
'Stellar ... a wonderful opportunity for an incoming government' RORY STEWART
Nusrit Mehrab’s debut OFF THE BEAT published 20.6.24
When Nusrit Mehtab joined the Metropolitan Police, the organization was rife with racism and misogyny. Officers refused to patrol with her, or even call her by her name. Her attempts to get promoted were met with hostility and ridicule, and she was subjected to cruel pranks.
As the years passed and her seniority grew, Nusrit was dismayed to find that these problems got worse, not better. In this searing memoir, she recounts her thirty years in the Met and the appalling treatment she endured. Now lecturing young recruits in criminology and mentoring BAME officers, Nusrit is confident that we can mould the next generation to create a more inclusive police force, safer for both the officers and the public.
TWO LIGHTS by James Roberts has been longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2024.
The annual prize recognises a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place.
Two Lights is an extraordinary account of searching for the wildness left in our world – spanning continents and geological eras, skies and oceans, animals and birds, and even the planets and stars.
The 2024 RSL Ondaatje Prize Shortlist will be announced on 26 April, with the winner announced on 14 May.