Bestseller, chart-topper, and everyone’s favourite clergyman Reverend Richard Coles has been shortlisted for Crime and Thriller Book of the Year for Murder Before Evensong. The judges said: “From writing excellence to publishing brilliance to reader favourites, these books showcase the incredible range, skill and flair of today’s book industry” You can catch all the shortlisted titles here: https://buff.ly/409v9DA| W&N - Ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949
Weidenfeld & Nicolson is celebrating its 75th year by planning to build on the ‘wild audacity’ of its original list. Seventy-five years after it was founded by George Weidenfeld and Nigel Nicolson, the Weidenfeld & Nicolson imprint—part of Orion—is on the up with a new brand look, a new mission statement, and a renewed focus under executive publisher Jenny Lord, and a top team, including publishing directors Juliet Annan, Alexa von Hirschberg, Lettice Franklin and Ed Lake. "It does...| W&N - Ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has triumphed in a “fierce” eight-way auction for Nussaibah Younis’ dark comedy Fundamentally. Publishing director Juliet Annan bought UK and Commonwealth rights in a two-book deal from Florence Rees at A M Heath. Fundamentally is described as “a voice-driven, deeply original, properly funny debut novel about rescuing ISIS brides”. It will publish as a lead fiction title in March 2025. “When heartbroken academic Nadia finds herself working for the UN i...| W&N - Ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired a “deliciously surprising” history of our imaginary monsters and what they can tell us about who we are from Natalie Lawrence. Jenny Lord, executive publisher, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Jessica Woollard at David Higham Associates. Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meanings will be published in August 2024. The synopsis says: “We have always created and destroyed monsters. They give form to what we don’t wish to know or ...| W&N - Ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has triumphed in a 14-way auction for the first book by the former literary editor of the Sunday Times, Andrew Holgate. Maddy Price, editorial director, acquired UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights in Death Of A Dictator: The Mysterious Execution Of Benito Mussolini from Toby Mundy at Aevitas Creative Management. It will publish in hardback, trade paperback, audiobook and e-book in 2027 Death Of A Dictator is billed as a “gripping Second World War histo...| W&N - Ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949
Alexa von Hirschberg, publishing director at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights for The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei from Jessica Bullock at The Wylie Agency. US rights were sold to Lee Boudreaux at Doubleday. The Original Daughter is a literary debut set in working-class Singapore about an intoxicating relationship between two sisters over two decades. It will publish in spring 2025. The synopsis says: “Without warning, Genevieve Yang’s life is upend...| W&N - Ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949
We are beyond delighted to share the news that Arinze Ifeakandu has won prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize for his debut story collection, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things. The prize, which recognises literary works by authors aged 39 or under, is one of the most prestigious awards for young writers in the world. The chair of judges, books editor at BBC Audio Di Speirs, said Ifeakandu’s collection “shines with maturity, the writing bold, refreshing and exacting but never afraid to li...| W&N - Ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949
THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING We are delighted to announce that Philipe Sand's, The Last Colony, has been shortlisted for the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Writing! The winners of the 2023 Orwell Prizes will be revealed at the Prize Ceremony in central London on 22nd June 2023. Click here to find out more about The Orwell Prize.| W&N - Ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949
At London Book Fair last week it was announced that Georgi Gospodinov’s TIME SHELTER has made the shortlist for the very, very illustrious International Booker Prize. The judges hailed it as: ‘An inventive, subversive and morbidly humorous novel about national identities and the seductive dangers of memory and nostalgia.’ They said that, ‘it compels us to question our concepts of identity: not just national, individual, societal, but also historical and temporal. How much do we res...| W&N - Ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949
It has been an amazing month for TIME SHELTER by Georgi Gospodinov and we are thrilled to announce that it has been shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize 2023. It has been picked as one of the 10 best works of translated fiction, alongside Olga Tocarczuk and Orhan Pamuk amongst others. The winner will be announced on 15th June 2023.| W&N - Ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949