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2010
News - Wed 10 Mar 2010
Donald McRae wins Interviewer of the Year Award
Donald Mcrae was named Sports Interviewer of the Year at the prestigious Sports Journalist Association annual award ceremony which took place on 9 March. McRae ...
News - Tue 02 Mar 2010
Crunch Munch shortlisted for Red House award
Paul Bright's book Crunch Munch Dinosaur Lunch has been shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award. Crunch Munch Dinosaur Lunch (Little Tiger ...
News - Tue 02 Mar 2010
Remembering Winston Churchill 1940 - 2010
Curtis Brown remembers its longstanding client, Winston S. Churchill, author, journalist, adventurer and former MP, and is honoured to share some of his family's ...
News - Mon 01 Mar 2010
Task Force Black hits No 1 spot
Mark Urban's memoir Task Force Black (Little, Brown 2010) has débuted at number one in the Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller list. When British ...
News - Mon 01 Mar 2010
Emma Kennedy shortlisted for Gateshead award
Emma Kennedy's book Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Frozen Hearts has been shortlisted for the Gateshead Children's Book Award 2010. The ...
News - Wed 24 Feb 2010
Film of A Single Man produces BAFTA
Colin Firth has won the Best Actor BAFTA for his portrayal of George Falconer in Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man (Random House, 1964). Tom ...
News - Wed 24 Feb 2010
Atwood imparts her golden rules for writing
Margaret Atwood has revealed some of the rules she follows in her writing practice. In an interview with the Guardian, the contemporary author listed writing ...
News - Fri 19 Feb 2010
Commonwealth Writers' Prize shortlist unveiled
Among Thieves by Mez Packer has been shortlisted for the Best First Novel prize in the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Now in its 24th year ...
News - Thu 18 Feb 2010
David Nicholls' One Day tops bestseller list
One Day by David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton, 2010) has reached the number one spot on The Nielson Bookscan bestseller list for paperback fiction. Nielson Bookscan ...
News - Wed 17 Feb 2010
Presenter line-up for My Story announced
Author Jenny Colgan is set to join Boyzone singer Ronan Keating and actress Maureen Lipman as the final presenter for BBC One's My Story ...
News - Fri 12 Feb 2010
Montefiore and Hore shortlisted for RNA Award
The Italian Matchmaker (Hodder, 2009) by Santa Montefiore and The Glass Painter's Daughter (Pocket Books, 2009) by Rachel Hore have both been shortlisted for ...
News - Fri 05 Feb 2010
Crazy Heart nominated for three Oscars
The film adaptation of the novel Crazy Heart, written by Thomas Cobb, has been nominated for three Oscars. Jeff Bridges has been nominated for best ...
News - Tue 02 Feb 2010
Shortlist for British Sport Book Awards announced
Why England Lose, co-written by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski, and Sea the Stars: The Story of a Perfect Racehorse by Sean Magee have been ...
News - Tue 02 Feb 2010
'Lost Booker' Longlist Honours
Books by Brian Aldiss, Nina Bawden, David Lodge and Mary Renault have been nominated for The Lost Man Booker Prize, unveiled this week. The prize ...
News - Fri 29 Jan 2010
Journey of author's novel to the big screen
The film adaptation of Jay Parini's novel The Last Station will open in the UK in February. In the Sunday Times this week, Jay ...
News - Thu 28 Jan 2010
Wilma Tenderfoot shortlisted for Children's Award
Emma Kennedy's Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Frozen Hearts (Macmillan, 2009) has been shortlisted for the 2010 Hull Children's Book Award ...
News - Thu 28 Jan 2010
The Value of Nothing in NY Times Bestseller List
Raj Patel's book The Value of Nothing (Portobello Books, 2009) has featured in the New York Times Bestseller List for three weeks in a ...
News - Tue 26 Jan 2010
Raphael Selbourne wins First Novel Costa
Raphael Selbourne's first novel Beauty (Tindal Street Press) has won the First Novel Costa Award. Beauty - in name and appearance - is a twenty-year-old Bangladeshi ...
News - Fri 22 Jan 2010
Three authors hit bestseller list
Books by Rupert Isaacson, Lisa Jewell and Antonia Fraser have reached first, fifth and 17th place respectively on The Nielsen Bookscan bestseller list, week commencing ...
News - Fri 22 Jan 2010
Mez Packer longlisted for Best First Novel Award
Mez Packer's novel Among Thieves (Tindal Street Press, 2009) has been nominated for the 2010 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award longlist. The ...
News - Wed 20 Jan 2010
Recipe book sampler to get students cooking
The Guardian will be giving away a free sampler of Sam Stern's Student's Cookbook: Survive In Style On A Budget to students across ...
News - Wed 20 Jan 2010
Jilly Cooper's novel could widen racing's appeal
International bestselling author Jilly Cooper could win over a new generation of racing converts with her next book, The Telegraph said this week. The novel ...
News - Mon 18 Jan 2010
le Carré to speak at Oxford Literary Festival
John le Carré is leading a stellar line-up of authors at this year's Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, which will run from 20th to ...
News - Fri 15 Jan 2010
100,000 copies of One Day sold in German
David Nicholls’ novel One Day has now sold 100,000 copies in German. The novel reached number 15 in Der Spiegel’s bestseller list and ...
News - Wed 06 Jan 2010
Optimism: Ehrenreich explains all at Conway Hall
Barbara Ehrenreich, acclaimed investigative journalist and author of bestselling Nickel and Dimed (Granta Books, 2002) will give a 'sermon' on the theme of Optimism at ...2009
News - Tue 22 Dec 2009
Leone Ross on Wasafiri's Most Influential List
The novel Orange Laughter by Leone Ross has been chosen as one of the 25 most influential books of the last 25 years by Wasafiri ...
News - Mon 21 Dec 2009
Kennedy Shortlisted for Children's Bookfest Award
Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Frozen Hearts (Macmillan Children's Books, 2009) by Emma Kennedy has been shortlisted for the Shrewsbury Children's ...
News - Wed 16 Dec 2009
Craig Easton wins Travel Photographer award
Craig Easton's photograph Storm Approaching Sandwood Cottage has been selected as Best Single Image in the Travel Photographer of the Year 2009 Homeland category ...
News - Tue 15 Dec 2009
3 Authors nominated for Romantic Novel of the Year
Novelists Erica James, Santa Montefiore and Rachel Hore have been selected for the 50th Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2010 Longlist, presented by the ...
News - Wed 09 Dec 2009
Winnie-the-Pooh sequel in Top 5 Children's Books
Return to the Hundred Acre Wood (Egmont, 2009) by David Benedictus and Mark Burgess has reached second place in the Top Five Children's Books ...
News - Mon 07 Dec 2009
Meloy grabs top spot on 10 Best Books of 2009 list
ICM client Maile Meloy's short story collection Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It (Riverhead, 2009), to be published by Canongate in ...
News - Mon 07 Dec 2009
Joanna Briscoe’s Sleep With Me to air on ITV1
An Andrew Davies small screen version of Joanna Briscoe's best selling erotic thriller Sleep With Me (Bloomsbury, 2005) is coming to ITV1. The adaptation ...
News - Thu 03 Dec 2009
Cook in Boots earns Best First Cookbook Award 2009
Ravinder Bhogal's book Cook in Boots (HarperCollins, 2009) has been awarded the UK Gourmand Cookbook Award 2009 for the Best First Cookbook category, which ...
News - Wed 02 Dec 2009
The Last Station takes Five Spirit Nominations
The film The Last Station (2009) has made the 25th Independent Spirit Awards Best Film list 2010, which was announced in Los Angeles on the ...
News - Wed 02 Dec 2009
Best Books of 2009 and the last decade
British newspapers have released their round ups of the Best Books of the year 2009 and the past decade. The selections for The Times 100 ...
News - Fri 27 Nov 2009
Joe Gores is Book of the Week
Joe Gores' crime novel, Spade & Archer (Orion, 2009), which follows the back-story of private eye Sam Spade, has been selected as Book of the Week ...
News - Wed 25 Nov 2009
David Nokes
Acclaimed author David Nokes died on 19 November 2009 at the age of sixty-one. He was represented here at Curtis Brown by Gordon Wise for ...
News - Tue 24 Nov 2009
Atwood listed in Top Ten Fiction Books of 2009
The Year of the Flood (Bloomsbury, 2009) by Margaret Atwood has been announced as one of the Ten Best Fiction Books on the Hudson Booksellers ...
News - Fri 20 Nov 2009
Townsend collects AMI Fellowship Award 2009
Sue Townsend has received the 2009 Ability Media International Fellowship Award for her literary career as playwright and novelist. Her many works include her most ...
News - Fri 20 Nov 2009
Karmel Wins 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award
Annabel Karmel was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the prestigious Mother & Baby Awards on Thursday 19 November 2009. Mother and Baby is the bestselling ...
News - Wed 18 Nov 2009
Two authors hit Top Five on bestseller list
Novels by Jeffery Deaver and Martine McCutcheon have reached second and fifth place respectively on The Sunday Times Bestseller list for paperback fiction, week commencing ...
News - Tue 17 Nov 2009
Cheryl biography debuts in Top Ten
Sean Smith's latest in-depth biography, Cheryl: The Biography (Simon & Schuster, 2009) has debuted at number 10 in the Sunday Times hardback bestseller list. Described ...
News - Fri 06 Nov 2009
Higgins Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2010
F.E. Higgins has been longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Children's Book Award 2010 for her book The Eyeball Collector (Macmillan, 2009). The medal ...
News - Tue 03 Nov 2009
Drinkwater Shortlisted for Travel Press Award 2009
Carol Drinkwater has been shortlisted for the Travel Press Awards 2009 for her book The Olive Tree (Orion, 2008), which charts Carol's colourful and ...
News - Tue 03 Nov 2009
Longlist for IMPAC Dublin Award 2010 revealed
Bernardine Evaristo, Steve Toltz, Tom Rob Smith and Jane F. Kotapish have all been longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2010. Blonde Roots ...
News - Wed 28 Oct 2009
Two Novels Nominated as Neglected Classics
William Gerhardie's 1925 novel The Polygots (re-issued by Faber Finds, 2008) has recently been nominated by William Boyd as a ‘neglected classic', on BBC ...
News - Tue 27 Oct 2009
John le Carré moves to Penguin
John le Carré is moving from Hodder & Stoughton to Penguin after 38 years with the publisher. Tom Weldon, deputy chief executive of Penguin UK, described ...
News - Tue 20 Oct 2009
Clients Take Part in Plum Idol
Stanley Johnson, Santa Montefiore and Lara Cazalet are three celebrities taking part in Plum Idol, a competition to find PG Wodehouse's funniest line, organized ...
News - Mon 19 Oct 2009
Archer Wins Prestigious Crime Prize
Jeffrey Archer has won the Prix Polar International Prize for the best international thriller of the year, for his novel A Prisoner of Birth (Pan ...
News - Fri 16 Oct 2009
Theroux Shortlisted for National Book Award 2009
Marcel Theroux has been short listed for the American National Book Award 2009 in the Fiction category for his novel Far North, which was published ...
News - Wed 14 Oct 2009
Mandela Archive at Frankfurt
Nelson Mandela's private archive was the subject of an international bidding war at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Jonny Geller is representing the archive on ...
News - Wed 14 Oct 2009
Jeremy Page Wins East Anglian Book Award
Jeremy Page's novel The Wake (Penguin, 2009) has been awarded the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Award for the Fiction and Poetry category. The ceremony ...
News - Wed 07 Oct 2009
Feisty new pal for Winnie the Pooh
A new character, Lottie the Otter, will be joining Winnie the Pooh and his original friends in the forthcoming book Return to the Hundred Acre ...
News - Tue 06 Oct 2009
Natasha Mostert at Richmond Literary Festival 2009
Natasha Mostert, author of Season of the Witch, winner of the Book to Talk About: World Book Day Award 2009, is set to give a ...
News - Mon 05 Oct 2009
Success of The Year of the Flood Audiobook
Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood (Bloomsbury, 2009) has been made into an unabridged audiobook by BBC Audiobooks (September 2009), using the entire ...
News - Thu 01 Oct 2009
German success for David Nicholls
David Nicholls' new novel One Day shot into the number 2 position in the Amazon sales charts in Germany after it featured in a new ...
News - Thu 01 Oct 2009
Three hit top spots on Bestseller List
Novels by Jeffrey Archer, Elizabeth Noble and Cathy Kelly have reached first, second and third position on The Sunday Times paperback fiction Bestseller List, week ...
News - Mon 28 Sep 2009
Year of the Flood Tour 2009
Margaret Atwood will be touring the US and six countries across Europe from 23 August to 8 December 2009 to celebrate her new novel The ...
News - Tue 22 Sep 2009
Popularity Rules Sparks Debate
To celebrate the release of her debut novel Popularity Rules (Arrow, 24 September 2009), Abby McDonald has sparked an online discussion of what popularity rules ...
News - Tue 22 Sep 2009
Why England Lose Longlisted for William Hill Award
Why England Lose - And Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained (HarperCollins 2009), co-written by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski, is amongst the titles longlisted for the ...
News - Tue 22 Sep 2009
Into the Storm Receives Emmy Award
Brendan Gleeson has received an Emmy for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the HBO mini-series Into the Storm. On collecting the award for ‘Outstanding ...
News - Wed 16 Sep 2009
Kelly Hits No.1 in Bestseller Listings
Cathy Kelly's Once in a Lifetime (HarperCollins 2009) has hit number one in the paperback fiction Bestseller list in both Ireland and England. Once ...
News - Tue 15 Sep 2009
TV Chef Keith Floyd Has Died
It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden death of Keith Floyd, the much-loved celebrity television chef. He was the first chef to ...
News - Mon 14 Sep 2009
Sum hits No. 2 in Amazon Bestseller Chart
David Eagleman's debut book Sum (Canongate 2009) has shot to number 2 in the Amazon bestseller list after Stephen Fry tweeted about the book ...
News - Thu 10 Sep 2009
Bellingham stars in BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing
After weeks of secrecy, the BBC has announced its line-up for the next series of Strictly Come Dancing in which Lynda is to compete with ...
News - Fri 04 Sep 2009
Page Shortlisted for EDP Book Award
Jeremy Page's second novel The Wake (Penguin 2009) has been shortlisted in the Fiction and Poetry category of the 2009 EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book ...
News - Thu 03 Sep 2009
Winnie the Pooh returns after 80 years
Generations of readers have wondered what became of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh after the end of A. A. Milne's The House At Pooh Corner ...
News - Mon 24 Aug 2009
Declan Hughes nominated for a Shamus Award
Declan Hughes' novel The Price of Blood (William Morrow 2008), published in the UK as The Dying Breed (John Murray 2008), has been nominated for ...
News - Fri 21 Aug 2009
Three Placed in 'The Top Ten Hottest Beach Reads'
Novels by Marian Keyes, Kim Edwards, and Jane Fallon have been selected as top ten beach reads for summer '09. Teletext Holidays, in association with ...
News - Wed 19 Aug 2009
Bestseller News
The Nielsen weekly sales rankings for 17th August placed Jeffrey Deaver, David Nicholls, Tracy Chevalier, Adele Parks, Tony Parsons, and Wendy Holden in the top ...
News - Tue 18 Aug 2009
Page Appointed as UEA Creative Writing Fellow
Jeremy Page has been appointed as a Creative Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia. He will take up his fellowship in January for ...
News - Fri 14 Aug 2009
Sam Stern in Top Ten
Get Cooking (Walker Books 2006), by Sam Stern, has been named in The Independent's best ten children's cookbooks. Sam's third cookery book ...
News - Thu 13 Aug 2009
Gavin Griffiths becomes a Plinther
On Thursday 13th August, Gavin Griffiths will be participating in Anthony Gormley's oneandother project in London's Trafalgar Square. 2,400 participants, representing every ...
News - Thu 13 Aug 2009
Special Margaret Atwood Literary Performance
Margaret Atwood, the Booker Prize-winning Canadian author, will be appearing at a unique literary performance with music to launch her new novel The Year of ...
News - Thu 06 Aug 2009
Melissa Hill Reaches No 1 Spot for Second Time
Melissa Hill has gone straight to number one in Ireland for the second time. Please Forgive Me was published in Ireland by Hodder & Stoughton on ...
News - Wed 05 Aug 2009
Bestseller News
The Nielsen weekly sales rankings for 5th August placed Jeffery Deaver, David Nicholls, John le Carré, Catherine Alliott and Adele Parks in the top ten ...
News - Wed 05 Aug 2009
Long awaited Murakami novel is instant best-seller
1Q84, Haruki Murakami's latest novel, was published by Shinchosa in Japan on 29 May 2009 where it immediately entered the top of the best-seller ...
News - Wed 29 Jul 2009
Double Chart Success for Deaver
Jeffery Deaver's Kathryn Dance novel Roadside Crosses (Hodder, 2009) has entered the hardback list at number 3 whilst his latest Lincoln Rhyme novel The ...
News - Thu 23 Jul 2009
Neil Cross at Harrogate Crime Writers Festival
Neil Cross, author of Burial (Pocket Books, 2009) and forthcoming Captured (Simon & Schuster), as well as the Booker long-listed Always the Sun, is currently visiting ...
News - Thu 23 Jul 2009
Jenny Smith at Nurturing Childbirth Symposium
Jenny Smith will be speaking on the inaugural study day of the Jentle Childbirth Foundation: Nurturing Childbirth on 24 September at Imperial College London. The ...
News - Wed 22 Jul 2009
Jeffery Deaver wins Novel of the Year at ThrillerFest
Jeffery Deaver's crime thriller Bodies Left Behind has just been awarded Novel of the Year at ThrillerFest in New YorkThe 2009 Thrillerfest in New ...
News - Mon 20 Jul 2009
Justine Hardy to be Book of the Week
Justine Hardy's story of a family's survival in war, In the Valley of Mist (Rider 2009) is to be Book of the Week ...
News - Tue 07 Jul 2009
Summer Reads 2009
British newspapers have released their recommendations for their best Summer Reads 2009. The Daily Telegraph's ‘50 Summer Reads' included: The Horse Boy: A Father ...
News - Mon 06 Jul 2009
Jonny Geller named in Hospital Club 100 list
Jonny Geller has been named as the most influential established figure in the Books and Literary category of the Hospital Club 100 list of the ...
News - Fri 26 Jun 2009
Nicola Upson in Fresh Blood crime promotion
Nicola Upson has been chosen for Waterstone's Fresh Blood promotion. The promotion showcases the best debut authors working in crime fiction today. Nicola's ...
News - Tue 23 Jun 2009
Claire Keegan Wins the Davy Byrnes Award
Claire Keegan has won the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2009. Claire's short story Foster from a shortlist of six stories, and she was ...
News - Mon 22 Jun 2009
Hannan and Walsh win at Society of Authors awards
Chris Hannan and Helen Walsh were among the twenty-one writers honoured at the annual Society of Authors awards ceremony at the Cavalry and Guards Club ...
News - Thu 11 Jun 2009
Keegan and McCloskey Shortlisted for Irish Award
Claire Keegan and Molly McCloskey have both been shortlisted for the Davy Brynes Irish Writing Award. The Award is Ireland's biggest short story competition ...
News - Tue 09 Jun 2009
Michael Sandel gives BBC Reith Lectures 2009
Michael Sandel is delivering the 2009 Reith Lectures, a prestigious annual series of lectures commissioned by the BBC and given by leading figures on significant ...
News - Fri 05 Jun 2009
Richard Grant short listed for travel book award
The Authors' Club has announced that Richard Grant's Bandit Roads (Little, Brown 2008) has been placed on the short list for the Dolman Best ...
News - Tue 02 Jun 2009
Bernardine Evaristo wins Orange Prize Youth Vote
The Orange Prize Shadow Youth Panel has just announced Bernardine Evaristo's novel Blonde Roots as their overall winner. The panel of three boys and ...
News - Tue 02 Jun 2009
Jonathan Lloyd is Agent of the Year
Jonathan Lloyd has won Literary Agent of the Year at the 2009 Book Industry Awards - The Nibbies. Jonathan, CEO of Curtis Brown, represents amongst others ...
News - Tue 26 May 2009
Smiley Season begins on Radio 4
Radio 4 is launching a season of brand new dramatizations of all eight of John le Carré's iconic George Smiley novels. Simon Russell Beale ...
News - Wed 20 May 2009
Atlantic uncovers man's earliest ancestor
Award winning production company Atlantic Productions will be screening their ground breaking documentary on the discovery, announced by scientists earlier this week, of a 47-million-year-old ...
News - Mon 18 May 2009
Justine Hardy to be Book of the Week
Justine Hardy's story of a family's survival in war, In the Valley of Mist (Rider 2009) is to be Book of the Week ...
News - Mon 11 May 2009
Barnes & Noble feature The Horse Boy
Rupert Isaacson's book The Horse Boy (Penguin 2009) has been chosen by Barnes & Noble as part of their Discover Great New Writers scheme. The ...
News - Mon 11 May 2009
Eagleman on Front Row
David Eagleman appeared on BBC Radio 4 programme Front Row on 24 April to discuss his book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (Canongate 2009 ...
News - Thu 07 May 2009
Marian Keyes wins at Irish Book Awards
Marian Keyes's latest novel This Charming Man (Penguin 2009) won the Easons Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award at the 2009 Irish ...
News - Wed 06 May 2009
The Two Cultures - 50 years on
This week marks the 50th anniversary of C P Snow's famous lecture ‘The Two Cultures'. Snow delivered his lecture at the Senate House in ...
News - Fri 01 May 2009
Meg Gardiner wins Edgar Award
Meg Gardiner's novel China Lake (Hodder & Stoughton 2002) has won Best Paperback Original at the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The Edgar Awards are ...
News - Fri 01 May 2009
Bateman chosen for Richard & Judy Summer Reads
Colin Bateman's latest novel, Mystery Man (Headline 2009), has been selected as one of the Richard & Judy Book Club's Summer Reads. The list ...
News - Tue 28 Apr 2009
Ibbotson a favourite with Children's Laureates
Eva Ibbotson's award-winning book Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan Children's Books, 2001) has been chosen to feature on a list of Children ...
News - Thu 23 Apr 2009
Hardeep shortlisted for Diversity Award
Hardeep Singh Kohli has been shortlisted for the Diversity Award in Literature at the British Book Industry Awards. This year's shortlists were announced at ...
News - Thu 23 Apr 2009
Stephen May Nominated for Wales Book of the Year
Stephen May has been nominated for The Wales Book of the Year 2009 for his novel TAG. The award is presented to the best Welsh ...
News - Wed 15 Apr 2009
Atwood shortlisted for Business Book Award
Margaret Atwood has been shortlisted for Canada's National Business Book Award (NBBA) for her book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (Bloomsbury ...
News - Fri 03 Apr 2009
Ulrika Jonsson's first novel
Ulrika Jonsson, winner of Channel 4's 2009 Celebrity Big Brother, TV presenter and columnist, has joined Curtis Brown. Her first book, the best-selling autobiography ...
News - Wed 01 Apr 2009
Keyes and Kelly nominated for Irish Book Award
Both Marian Keyes and Cathy Kelly have been shortlisted for The Easons Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year category at the Irish Book Awards ...
News - Wed 01 Apr 2009
Gillian Tett Voted Journalist of the Year
Gillian Tett has been named Journalist of the Year at the 2009 British Press Awards, announced on 31 March 2009 at a presentation dinner hosted ...
News - Tue 31 Mar 2009
Steve Toltz nominated for Australian awards
Steve Toltz's debut novel A Fraction of the Whole (Hamish Hamilton 2008) has been nominated for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009. The Award ...
News - Tue 31 Mar 2009
Rupert Isaacson on This Morning
Rupert Isaacson will appear as a guest on ITV's This Morning on Thursday 2nd April to discuss his bestselling book, The Horse Boy (Penguin ...
News - Thu 26 Mar 2009
Hsiao Hung-Pai makes Orwell Prize Shortlist
Hsiao Hung-Pai's Chinese Whispers (Fig Tree 2008) has reached the shortlist for the 2009 Orwell Prize. The longlist of 18 titles was announced in ...
News - Wed 18 Mar 2009
2009 Orange Prize Longlist Announced
Bernardine Evaristo's acclaimed novel Blonde Roots (Hamish Hamilton 2008), a satire on racism in which the transatlantic slave trade is ‘turned on its head ...
News - Wed 18 Mar 2009
Keyes and Archer both hit Number 1
Both Marian Keyes and Jeffrey Archer have reached number 1 in the UK Bestseller List less than 2 weeks after publication. This Charming Man (Penguin ...
News - Mon 16 Mar 2009
The Horse Boy hits Bestseller List
Rupert Isaacson's book The Horse Boy hit the UK bestseller list less than a week after its publication on 5 March 2009. Over 2000 ...
News - Tue 10 Mar 2009
Nibbies shortlist revealed
The 2009 Galaxy British Book Awards shortlist has been announced. Tom Rob Smith is in the running not only for Books Direct Crime Thriller of ...
News - Fri 06 Mar 2009
Natasha Mostert wins Spread the Word prize
Natasha Mostert's Season of the Witch (Bantam 2007) is the World Book Day ‘Spread the Word' winner. This book-to-talk-about poll was carried out to ...
News - Thu 05 Mar 2009
Child 44 up for Indies Choice Book Awards
The American Booksellers Association revealed Tom Rob Smith is a Best Debut Finalist for his novel Child 44 (Simon & Schuster 2008). These inaugural Indies Choice ...
News - Thu 05 Mar 2009
Family Money to be Book at Bedtime
Nina Bawden's novel Family Money will be featured as a 10-episode serial starting 9 March on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime, which ...
News - Fri 27 Feb 2009
Two prizes for Peston at Journalism Awards
BBC business editor, Robert Peston, collected two prizes at the Royal Television Society Journalism Awards, with judges praising his historic run of scoops on the ...
News - Thu 26 Feb 2009
Hsiao-Hung Pai is long-listed for the Orwell Prize
Hsiao-Hung Pai has been long-listed for the 2009 Orwell Prize for her acclaimed book Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of ...
News - Wed 25 Feb 2009
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine wins £50,000
Naomi Klein was last night announced as the winner of the first Warwick Prize for Writing in recognition of her latest book The Shock Doctrine ...
News - Mon 23 Feb 2009
Curtis Brown remembers Christy Nolan
We were all saddened by the sudden death of Christopher Nolan on the 20 February 2008. He was 43. Despite physical handicaps brought on by ...
News - Thu 19 Feb 2009
Commonwealth Writer's Prize shortlist announced
The Commonwealth Writer's Prize has announced their 2009 shortlist. Daniel Clay's Broken joins four others for the European Best First Book Award and ...
News - Wed 18 Feb 2009
Curtis Brown remembers Dick Odgers
It is with great sadness that we report Dick Odgers, former Curtis Brown Chairman, died on December 20, 2008, aged 88. He was recruited by ...
News - Thu 12 Feb 2009
Laurence Shorter becomes International Bestseller
Laurence Shorter's latest book The Optimist: One Man's Search for the Good News (Canongate/Random House) has already become a Top Ten Bestseller ...
News - Mon 09 Feb 2009
Shortlist for Best First Novel Award announced
The Authors' Club has revealed that Daniel Clay's Broken (HarperPress) and Robin Yassin-Kassab's The Road from Damascus (Hamish Hamilton) have both been shortlisted ...
News - Mon 09 Feb 2009
Bonnie Glover nominated for NAACP Image Award
Bonnie Glover's latest novel Going Down South (Random House/One World/Ballentine) has been nominated for the NAACP Image Awards 2009. Established in 1967 ...
News - Mon 26 Jan 2009
Bodies Left Behind debuts at No. 2
Jeffrey Deaver's latest thriller The Bodies Left Behind (Hodder & Stoughton 2009) reached No. 2 in The Observer's Bestseller List on Sunday 25th January ...
News - Thu 22 Jan 2009
Gilligan honoured as youngest ever O'Reilly Scholar
Ruth Gilligan has become the youngest Irish graduate to be made an O'Reilly scholar under the O'Reilly Foundation Scholarship Programme. Twenty-year-old Ruth is ...
News - Mon 19 Jan 2009
The Year of Deaver
This year sees the publication and re-release of more than ten works by international number-one bestselling author Jeffrey Deaver. Deaver's new thriller The Bodies ...
News - Fri 16 Jan 2009
Sundance premiere for Isaacson
Rupert Isaacson's dramatic and heart-warming documentary Over the Hills and Far Away premieres this week at the Sundance Film Festival 2009. The sweeping and ...
News - Fri 16 Jan 2009
China Lake Nominated for Edgar Awards
Meg Gardiner's novel China Lake has been nominated for the 2009 Edgar Allen Poe Awards in the Best Paperback Original category. The Edgar® Awards ...
News - Fri 16 Jan 2009
Tony Parsons joins Curtis Brown
Tony Parsons has joined Curtis Brown to be represented by Jonny Geller. As a writer at the forefront of British journalism, Tony has written for ...
News - Fri 16 Jan 2009
Great contemporary writers help to fight poverty
Profile has commissioned a starry line-up of authors to contribute to four volumes of stories in aid of Oxfam in the Chinese Year if the ...
News - Wed 14 Jan 2009
Kearsley shortlisted for Romantic Novel Award
Susanna Kearsley has been shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award for her book Sophia's Secret. The award is organized by the ...
News - Fri 09 Jan 2009
Heiney nominated for Breakthrough Award
Rose Heiney has been nominated for The Times/The South Bank Show Breakthrough Award as the Literature entry with her debut novel The Days of ...
News - Mon 05 Jan 2009
Barnes & Noble name Best Books of 2008
Debut novelists Tom Rob Smith and Jennifer Cody Epstein have both been featured in the Barnes and Noble list of Top Ten Fiction Debuts of ...
News - Mon 05 Jan 2009
Sewell is Feature of the Month for Der Club
The German book club Der Club, one of the largest book clubs in the world, has chosen Kitty Sewell's novel Bloodprint, for their Premeire ...2008
News - Mon 22 Dec 2008
Winnie the Pooh drawings set record
A collection of E. H. Shepard's original drawings for the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne fetched around £1.3m at auction, above the ...
News - Thu 18 Dec 2008
Ibbotson shortlisted for Manchester Book Award
Eva Ibbotson's latest book, The Dragonfly Pool, has been shortlisted for the Manchester Book Award 2009. The award, which recognises the best fictional ...
News - Thu 11 Dec 2008
Kirkus Reviews praises C K Kelly Martin
C. K. Kelly Martin's novel I Know It's Over has been selected as one of Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Books of 2008 ...
News - Thu 11 Dec 2008
Arctic Hero & Nest of Vipers shortlisted...
Catherine Johnson's novel Nest of Vipers has been shortlisted for both the Leeds Book Award and the Phoenix Award. The Leeds Book Award, with ...
News - Wed 03 Dec 2008
South Bank Show Awards - Child 44 nominated
Tom Rob Smith has been nominated for this year's Literature Award at the South Bank Show Awards for his debut novel, Child 44. The ...
News - Tue 02 Dec 2008
Mirabilis launches in Christmas edition of The DFC
Mirabilis - The Year of Wonders, a new comic strip series written by Dave Morris and illustrated by Leo Hartas and Martin McKenna, will be launched ...
News - Mon 01 Dec 2008
Teach your Granny to text in Starbucks
Over Christmas, Starbucks branches will carry sample of Teach Your Granny To Text and Other Ways To Change The World (Walker Books). The book, written ...
Features - Mon 01 Dec 2008
Christmas Special - Best Books of 2008
British newspapers have released their annual books of the year recommendations in time for Christmas. The Observer Review's ‘Most Thrilling Books of 2008' include ...
News - Thu 27 Nov 2008
Environmental Journalist of the Year
Richard Girling of the Sunday Times Magazine has been named journalist of the year at the inaugural Press Gazette Environmental Press Awards. Richard was praised ...
News - Wed 19 Nov 2008
Child 44 shortlisted for Costa First Novel Award
Tom Rob Smith's Child 44 has been shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. The annual prize is one of the most prestigious literary ...
News - Fri 14 Nov 2008
Giles Gordon 1940 -2003
Giles Gordon passed away five years ago on 14 November 2003. Robert Nye, Giles' client and good friend, has written a poem as a tribute ...
News - Wed 12 Nov 2008
Phillip Dodd picked for Richard & Judy list
Philip Dodd, co-author of The Book of Islands, has been picked for the Richard & Judy Christmas book strand for the coffee table category. The Book ...
News - Tue 11 Nov 2008
Tommy's War featured on BBC Radio 4
On Armistice Day, which this year marks the anniversary of the end of the Great War, Radio 4's Today Programme featured extracts from Tommy ...
News - Fri 31 Oct 2008
Guardian First Book Nomination for Toltz
Steve Toltz's Booker-shortlisted A Fraction of the Whole has also been shortlisted for the first Guardian First Book Award. The shortlist, which comprises of ...
News - Wed 22 Oct 2008
2008 Man Asian Prize shortlist
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi's The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay has been shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. The novel, the author's second, is ...
News - Tue 21 Oct 2008
3 Books to Talk About on Spread The Word Longlist
Natasha Mostert's Season of the Witch (Bantam), Daniel Clay's Broken (Harper) and Hsiao-Hung Pai's Chinese Whispers (Figtree) have been longlisted for the ...
News - Tue 14 Oct 2008
Shortlist for Glen Dimplex Awards
Robin Yassin-Kassab's novel The Road From Damascus (Hamish Hamilton 2008) and Hsiao Hung-Pai's Chinese Whispers (Fig Tree 2008, non fiction) have been shortlisted ...
News - Wed 01 Oct 2008
Sam Stern's Student Cookbook Published
Teenage cook Sam Stern dishes out tips and recipes to help students survive their first term in an article on Times Online. Find out how ...
News - Fri 19 Sep 2008
Eva Ibbotson up for Astrid Lindgren Award
Eva Ibbotson has been nominated for the The Astrid Lindgren Award, alongside seven other British candidates, including author Michael Morpurgo and illustrator Quentin Blake. With ...
News - Thu 18 Sep 2008
Deaver nominated for Author of the Year
Jeffrey Deaver (The Sleeping Doll, Hodder & Stoughton 2007), has been nominated for International Author of the Year by the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards panel. The ...
News - Thu 18 Sep 2008
Steve Toltz makes Man Booker Shortlist
Debut novelist Steve Toltz has made it onto the Man Booker Prize shortlist, from a longlist of thirteen novels, announced on 9 September 2008. There ...
News - Mon 15 Sep 2008
Sam Stern's Fourth Cookbook published
Sam Stern's fourth book, the Student Cookbook, was published by Walker on 1 September 2008, and has received great reviews. This time the teenage ...
News - Mon 01 Sep 2008
Curtis Brown "signs" Sheila Crowley
Sheila Crowley, who moved from Hodder five years ago to become a literary agent, has left A P Watt to join Curtis Brown from 1st ...
News - Sun 17 Aug 2008
The Final Reckoning at No.2
The latest offering from Sam Bourne, The Final Reckoning, is number two on The Sunday Times paperback fiction bestseller list on 17 August 2008. The ...
News - Fri 01 Aug 2008
A Most Wanted Man Published
John le Carré's new novel, A Most Wanted Man, was published by Hodder in the UK on 23 September 2008 - you can get a ...
News - Wed 30 Jul 2008
Smith and Toltz on Man Booker longlist
Two of our fastest rising stars, debut novelists Tom Rob Smith and Steve Toltz, have both been chosen for the ‘Booker Dozen' - the thirteen novels ...
News - Tue 29 Jul 2008
Who will be Teen Queen?
Sarra Manning and Grace Dent are on the shortlist to be the first ever author to be crowned Queen of Teen. The prize, in its ...
News - Tue 29 Jul 2008
Riley wins Somerset Maugham Award
Gwendoline Riley was awarded the top £4,000 Somerset Maugham Award by the Society of Authors for her study of transatlantic love, Joshua Spassky. Gwendoline ...
News - Fri 25 Jul 2008
Gerald Seymour moves to Curtis Brown
The Bookseller (25 July 2008) reported that veteran thriller writer Gerald Seymour has moved to Curtis Brown, to be represented by Jonathan Lloyd. Read the ...
News - Tue 22 Jul 2008
Hasan and Shanghvi up for Man Asian Prize
Anjum Hasan's novel Neti, Neti and Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi's Lost Flamingoes of Bombay (Penguin India 2008) have both been longlisted for the Man ...
News - Tue 15 Jul 2008
Susan Fletcher up for Dylan Thomas Prize
Susan Fletcher has been selected as one of fourteen authors long-listed for the biennial Dylan Thomas Prize. This £60,000 prize is one of the ...
Client News - Fri 11 Jul 2008
Jonathan Freedland wins David Watt prize
Jonathan Freedland has won the 2008 David Watt Prize for journalism for his article in The New York Review of Books entitled ‘Bush's Amazing ...
Client News - Thu 03 Jul 2008
Margaret Atwood wins Spanish 'Nobel' Prize
Margaret Atwood has won the prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize for literature, announced on 25 June 2008. This is the most important literary award in ...
News - Tue 01 Jul 2008
Tom McCarthy wins Believer's Book Award
Tom McCarthy's novel Remainder has received The Believer's Book Award 2008. Remainder was chosen from a short list of novels selected by the ...
News - Tue 24 Jun 2008
Guild of Food Writer's Award for Yeatman
Marwood Yeatman's book The Last Food of England was awarded the Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book at the Guild of Food Writers ...
News - Tue 24 Jun 2008
Next Lincoln Rhyme novel is out now
Jeffery Deaver's latest crime thriller, The Broken Window, was published in the US and Canada on 10 June 2008. It is the eighth novel ...
News - Thu 19 Jun 2008
Lisa Jewell wins Comedy Romance Award
Lisa Jewell has picked up the top prize for her novel 31 Dream Street (Penguin 2007) at the second annual Melissa Nathan Awards for Comedy ...
News - Tue 10 Jun 2008
Child 44 nominated for two Daggers
Tom Rob Smith's Child 44, his debut novel set in Stalinist Russia, has been shortlisted for two Crime Writers Association Dagger Awards: the John ...
News - Mon 02 Jun 2008
The Healing Land wins Le Prix Henri Duveyrier
Rupert Isaacson's book on the Bushmen of Kalahari The Healing Land, published as Les Derniers Hommes du Kalahari in France, has won the Le ...
News - Tue 27 May 2008
More Stars at the Guardian Hay Festival
After a wet and windy start to the festival, the weather looks set to improve for the rest of the week and the sun may ...
Features - Fri 23 May 2008
Stellar Weekend at The Guardian Hay Festival
Big names are gathering once again for the annual literary and arts festival at Hay-on-Wye on the Welsh Borders. Now celebrating its twenty-first birthday, it ...
News - Tue 20 May 2008
Claire Keegan nominated for Edge Hill Prize
Claire Keegan has been included on the shortlist for the prestigious Edge Hill Prize, awarded by Edge Hill University for the best short story collection ...
News - Wed 14 May 2008
Claire Keegan wins Edge Hill Short Story Prize
Irish writer Claire Keegan has won the Edge Hill University Short Story Prize 2008 with her second short story collection Walk the Blue Fields. The ...
Client News - Fri 09 May 2008
Patricia Cornwell Holds No. 1 Spot
ICM author Patricia Cornwell's latest Kay Scarpetta thriller, Book of the Dead, is dominating The Sunday Times paperback fiction bestseller list, going straight in ...
News - Fri 09 May 2008
John Llewellyn Rhys shortlist
Gwendoline Riley's novel Joshua Spassky has been short-listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2007. The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, established in 1942, recognises ...
News - Fri 09 May 2008
Boardman Tasker Prize - Venables shortlisted
Stephen Venables' autobiography, Higher Than the Eagle Soars, has been short listed for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, which will be announced on ...
News - Fri 09 May 2008
Brock Clarke is a Borders Original Voice
An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England by Brock Clarke has been nominated for a Borders' Original Voices award.
News - Wed 07 May 2008
Marian Keyes straight in at No 1
Marian Keyes' recent novel This Charming Man, published by Michael Joseph on 1 May 2008, is at number one on The Sunday Times hardback fiction ...
News - Tue 06 May 2008
Dutch Award for Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak has won the Zilveren Zoen (Silver Kiss), one of the most prestigious book prizes for children's literature in the Netherlands, for his ...
News - Fri 02 May 2008
W H Auden Centenary 2007
On 23rd and 24th June 2007, the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival offers a W H Auden Centenary Celebration. Curtis Brown is proud to represent ...
Client News - Fri 25 Apr 2008
ICM's Raja Shehadeh Wins Orwell Prize 2008
ICM Author Raja Shehadeh has won this year's Orwell Book Prize for his book Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (Profile Books), in ...
Client News - Fri 25 Apr 2008
Child 44 and Broken up for new writing prize
Tom Rob Smith's Russian thriller, Child 44, and Daniel Clay's captivating and tragic novel Broken, have both been long listed for the Desmond ...
News - Mon 21 Apr 2008
Les Dennis' biography in at No 6
Les Dennis's revealing autobiography, Must the Show Go On? (Orion Books) has gone straight in at no.6 on The Sunday Times hardback non-fiction ...
News - Thu 17 Apr 2008
Another Nomination for Blood River
Tim Butcher's bestselling story of his extraordinary journey down the Congo, Blood River, has been long-listed for The BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for ...
News - Fri 11 Apr 2008
Kim Edwards Wins Popular Fiction Award
Kim Edwards' 2007 bestselling novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Penguin) has won the Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award at this year's Galaxy British ...
News - Thu 03 Apr 2008
Michael Billington Wins Theatre Book Prize
Michael Billington has won the Theatre Book Prize for his book State of the Nation (Faber), which charts the relationship between theatre and society over ...
News - Wed 02 Apr 2008
Co-agenting Relationship with ICM Books
Curtis Brown, one of the oldest and most prestigious literary agencies in the UK, and ICM Books, a UK-division of the talent and literary agency ...
News - Thu 20 Mar 2008
Moggach and Topolski on Orange Longlist
Two Curtis Brown authors have been included in the longlist for the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Deborah Moggach’s sixteenth novel, In the ...
News - Tue 18 Mar 2008
Archer is No 1 with A Prisoner of Birth
Jeffery Archer’s latest novel, A Prisoner of Birth, has topped the Sunday Times hardback fiction bestseller list on 16 March 2008, just a week ...
News - Mon 17 Mar 2008
Blood River tops bestseller list
Tim Butcher's epic tale of his journey through the Congo, Blood River, has reached no.1 on the Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller list, of ...
News - Wed 12 Mar 2008
Amazon Emerging Authors List
Child 44 (Simon & Schuster 2008) by Tom Rob Smith, Broken (HarperCollins 2008) by Daniel Clay and Monster Love (Fig Tree 2008) by Carol Topolski have ...
News - Tue 04 Mar 2008
Bateman and McBain Make All-Time Top 50
Colin Bateman and the late Evan Hunter (writing as Ed McBain) have both been included in a stellar list of 50 Crime Writers to Read ...
News - Wed 27 Feb 2008
Blood River long-listed for Orwell Prize
Tim Butcher's bestselling travel book Blood River has been long-listed for The Orwell Prize for political writing. The book tells the story of his ...
News - Wed 20 Feb 2008
'Super Read' nomination for Nick Green
Nick Green's The Cat Kin has been short-listed for the Sefton Super-Reads Award 2008. This is the fourth year of this award and voting ...
News - Sun 10 Feb 2008
Daley-Clark wins Commonwealth Prize
Donna Daley-Clark won the Commonwealth Writers Prize First Book for Eurasia Region for her novel Lazy Eye. She will be going to Australia where the ...
News - Thu 07 Feb 2008
New Elizabeth Noble up to Number 5
Elizabeth Noble's new book, Things I want my Daughters to Know, was published by Penguin on 7 February 2008 and has moved up The ...
News - Wed 06 Feb 2008
Freya North wins Romantic Novel of the Year
Freya North's novel Pillow Talk has won the Romantic Novel of the Year 2008. The annual prize, made by the Romantic Novelists' Association, recognises ...
News - Fri 01 Feb 2008
Annual Minnesota Book Awards
Heather McElhatton's novel, Pretty Little Mistakes, has been named a finalist in the 20th annual Minnesota Book Awards. Winners will be announced at the ...
News - Mon 28 Jan 2008
Literacy Trust Children's Book Award
Two debut children's novels have been short-listed for book prizes voted for by the most discerning judges - the children themselves. F.E. Higgins' fantastic ...
News - Wed 16 Jan 2008
Brock Clarke ALA Notable Book 2007
Brock Clarke's novel, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, has been selected as an American Library Association Notable Book for ...
News - Mon 14 Jan 2008
Winning Start to 2008 for O R Melling
OR Melling's young adult novel, The Light-Bearer's Daughter, has won the Green Earth Book Award in the USA, announced on 14th January 2008 ...
News - Fri 04 Jan 2008
Tim Butcher - Richard and Judy Bookclub
Tim Butcher's book Blood River has been selected for the Richard and Judy Bookclub 2008 and will be featured on the programme on 5 ...
News - Wed 02 Jan 2008
George MacDonald Fraser
It is with great sadness that we report George MacDonald Fraser OBE died on January 2 2008. He has been a client, first with John ...2007
News - Tue 11 Dec 2007
Japanese Award for Jeffery Deaver
The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver has been chosen as The Best Crime Fiction of the Year 2007 by the poll conducted by Kono Misuteri ...
News - Mon 19 Nov 2007
Stephen Venables Wins Banff Mountain Prize
Stephen Venables has been awarded the Banff Mountain Book Festival's 2007 Mountain Literature Prize for his autobiography Higher Than The Eagle Soars. The announcement ...
News - Thu 15 Nov 2007
Abandoned is No 2 bestseller
Anya Peters' inspirational and moving memoir, Abandoned, is number 2 in the Sunday Times bestseller lists announced 15 November 2007, selling 16,000 copies in ...
News - Thu 15 Nov 2007
Richard and Judy Christmas Selection
Don't Arm Wrestle A Pirate:101 Really Bad Ideas by Dave Skinner & Henry Paker has been chosen as one of five books in the ...
News - Wed 07 Nov 2007
Deaver Retains Lead at Top of Charts
Jeffery Deaver's latest book, a short-story collection, More Twisted, went straight to No. 10 in the Sunday Times bestseller lists only three days after ...
News - Wed 07 Nov 2007
World Book Day 'Spread The Word'
Sarah Bower's debut historical novel The Needle In The Blood has been longlisted for the World Book Day 'Spread The Word' 2007 Competition. This ...
News - Wed 07 Nov 2007
Stockport Schools: Children's Book Award
I'm Not Going Out There by Paul Bright has been nominated by the Stockport School Library Service for the 2007 shortlist 'Mad About Books ...
News - Mon 22 Oct 2007
Joshua Spassky shortlisted...
Gwendoline Riley's novel, Joshua Spassky, has been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2007. The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, established in 1942, recognises ...
News - Fri 19 Oct 2007
Richard and Judy Children's Books
The Richard and Judy Book Club has chosen books by A A Milne and E H Shepard, Eva Ibbotson, F E Higgins and Elizabeth Singer ...
News - Thu 18 Oct 2007
Rumer Godden Centenary
Rumer Godden (1907-1998) was one of the foremost English language authors of the 20th Century, publishing over sixty books - novels, poetry, biographies and children's ...
News - Thu 18 Oct 2007
Markus Zusak wins Deutscher Jugenliteraturpreis
Award-winning author, Markus Zusak has been awarded the prestigious 2007 German Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in the Young Adult category for his novel Der Joker or in ...
News - Wed 17 Oct 2007
The Black Book of Secrets
The Black Book of Secrets by F E Higgins has been shortlisted for the Warwickshire Children's Book of the Year Award 2007. The winner ...
News - Tue 16 Oct 2007
Markus Zusak Chart Topper in Brazil
Markus Zusak's children's novel, The Book Thief, is at number 2 on the Brazilian best-seller list for the week of 15th October. The ...
News - Wed 10 Oct 2007
London's Most Influential People 2007
Literary agents Jonathan Lloyd and Jonny Geller are among London's Most Influential People 2007 as listed in 'The Big Black Book' published by the ...
News - Thu 04 Oct 2007
FT/Goldman Sachs business book of 2007
Philippe Legrain's book, Immigrants:Your Country Needs Them, has been shortlisted for the FT/Goldman Sachs business book of the year award. Arguing for ...
News - Sun 09 Sep 2007
Gerald Durrell Back In Print
Summersdale publishers are revising the classic works of lifetime conservationist and writer Gerald Durrell. Menagerie Manor, The Aye-Aye and I, Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons ...
News - Fri 07 Sep 2007
Nielsen Bookscan Top 20
Six Curtis Brown authors have reached the top twenty in the Nielsen BookScan best-seller lists of 1st September. Nielsen BookScan is the international sales data ...
News - Wed 15 Aug 2007
Record number of best-sellers
The 13th August proves a record week for Curtis Brown clients, as five novelists are listed in the top ten of the Sunday Times best-seller ...
Client News - Wed 11 Jul 2007
The Memory Keeper's Daughter is Sunday Times Number One Bestseller
The Sunday Times number one bestselling book in the UK for the week of 16 July, is Kim Edward's beautiful novel The Memory Keeper ...
News - Fri 22 Jun 2007
Richard and Judy Pick Curtis Brown Authors
Two authors represented by Curtis Brown have been included on the Richard and Judy Summer Read list. Kim Edward's worldwide bestseller, The Memory Keeper ...
News - Fri 22 Jun 2007
Sunday Times Best Sellers
Kim Edwards' novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter shoots from number 5 to number 2 in The Sunday Times Bestseller list for the week of ...
News - Fri 15 Jun 2007
Clare Keegan wins Tom Gallon Award
The Society of Authors has awarded author Claire Keegan the 2007 Tom Gallon Award for her short story Parting Gift, part of her collection Walk ...
News - Thu 14 Jun 2007
Comedy Romance Award 2007
Marian Keyes' novel Anybody Out There? has won the first Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance. Judges, including Jo Brand, Joanna Trollope and Sophie Kinsella ...
News - Wed 23 May 2007
David Mitchell - The Time 100
David Mitchell has been named in Time magazine's top 100 most influential people in the world today. The Time 100 is Time magazine's ...
News - Wed 23 May 2007
Diary of a housewife at war wins BAFTA award
Victoria Wood won the Best Actress Bafta for her leading role in ITV's wartime drama, Housewife 49. The programme was based on the diaries ...
News - Fri 11 May 2007
Jewish Quarterly Wingate Award
Howard Jacobson has won the Jewish Quarterly HH Wingate Literary Award for Kalooki Nights. 'Howard Jacobson's verbal dexterity is brilliant. He is the authentic ...
News - Thu 03 May 2007
Emma Cole nominated for Arthur Ellis Award
Crime Writers Canada have nominated Emma Cole's Every Secret Thing for Best Crime Novel in the Arthur Ellis Awards. The Arthurs will be presented ...
News - Wed 02 May 2007
Gillian Tindall shortlisted for The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize
Gillian Tindall's novel The House by the Thames has been shortlisted for The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. This is an annual award ...
News - Tue 01 May 2007
World Record Attempt
Hodder Headline Publishing House and Curtis Brown client David Mitchell are hoping to achieve an official Guinness World Record for the greatest number of people ...
News - Tue 01 May 2007
PEN/Borders Literary Service Award
Best-selling author and provocateur Gore Vidal accepted the inaugural PEN/Borders Literary Service Award at the 2007 PEN Literary Gala, which took place on 30th ...
News - Mon 30 Apr 2007
Rosie Thomas - Romantic Novelist of the Year
Rosie Thomas has won the 2007 Romantic Novel of the Year Award for her novel Iris & Ruby. Judge Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson presented Rosie a trophy ...
News - Thu 26 Apr 2007
Kim Edwards to top the charts... again
Kim Edwards' first novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter has just been published in the UK and is expected to hit the best-seller charts immediately ...
News - Tue 17 Apr 2007
Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist
Jane Harris's debut historical novel The Observations (Faber) has been shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to ...
News - Fri 13 Apr 2007
Literary Agent of the Year Award
Jonny Geller, Curtis Brown agent and Managing Director of our Book Division has been short-listed for Literary Agent of the Year at the 2007 British ...
News - Fri 30 Mar 2007
Tracy Chevalier on New York Times Bestseller List
Tracy Chevalier's Burning Bright has gone straight to No. 12 on the New York Times Bestseller list. It is also meeting with great critical ...
News - Fri 30 Mar 2007
Galaxy British Book Awards
Marian Keyes and Lauren Weisberger have both claimed prizes at the Galaxy British Book Awards, the most prestigious event in the UK literary calendar. The ...
News - Fri 23 Mar 2007
Justin Haythe to adapt Revolutionary Road
Novelist and screenwriter Justin Haythe has been chosen to adapt Richard Yate's 1961 novel Revolutionary Road for a film of the same name, to ...
News - Wed 21 Mar 2007
Christophe's Story nominated for Prize
Nicki Cornwell's fantastic children's book Christophe's Story is on the shortlist for the Portsmouth Book Award. The Portsmouth Book Award gives young ...
News - Mon 19 Mar 2007
Jack Stalwart on Radio 4
Curtis Brown client, Elizabeth Singer Hunt's book Jack Stalwart and the Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur has been serialised by BBC Radio 4. Elizabeth ...
News - Thu 08 Mar 2007
British Book Awards
The shortlists for the Galaxy British Book Awards, the most prestigious event in the UK book calendar, have been announced. The lists bring together an ...
News - Fri 23 Feb 2007
Kalooki Nights Shortlisted
Howard Jacobson's Kalooki Nights has been shortlisted for the 2007 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize. The prize is sponsored by the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation ...
News - Tue 20 Feb 2007
Anna Davis's The Shoe Queen
The Shoe Queen is the latest novel from Curtis Brown staff-member, Anna Davis; a tale of forbidden love and must-have shoes set in 1920s Paris ...
News - Thu 08 Feb 2007
Loving Danny Shortlisted for Prize
Hilary Freeman's wonderful Loving Danny has been shortlisted for the Lancashire Children's Book Award. The Award is judged by a panel of twenty-four ...
News - Tue 23 Jan 2007
Getting Rid of Matthew is an Instant Bestseller
Getting Rid of Matthew by Jane Fallon hit no. 7 on the Bestseller lists, in only its the third week of publication. This is a ...2006
News - Thu 14 Dec 2006
Carolyn Steel wins RSL prize
Curtis Brown author Carolyn Steel has won The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction for her book Hungry City, which considers the way ...
News - Mon 11 Dec 2006
David Mitchell on Costa Prize Shortlist
David Mitchell's novel Black Swan Green (Sceptre, 2006) has been shortlisted for one of the UK's most prestigious book prizes, the Costa Book ...
News - Wed 06 Dec 2006
The Devil Wears Prada is Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller
Lauren Weisberger's The Devil Wears Prada (HarperCollins) is at Number One in the Sunday Times Bookseller list for the sixth week running. The film ...
News - Wed 11 Oct 2006
The Black Book of Secrets shortlisted for prize
The Black Book of Secrets by F.E. Higgins has been shortlisted for Waterstones' Children's Book Prize. The promotion will run in Waterstones stores ...
News - Thu 05 Oct 2006
Jane Harris nominated for New Writers Award
Jane Harris's historical novel The Observations has been nominated in the fiction category for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award. The Observations is the ...
News - Thu 05 Oct 2006
Michael Booth Nominated for New Writers Award
Michael Booth has been nominated for a new Irish literary prize for Just As Well I'm Leaving, the story of a journey through Europe ...
News - Mon 18 Sep 2006
Man Booker Fiction Prize Longlist
Two Curtis Brown authors have been included on the longlist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize; Howard Jacobson for Kalooki Nights, and David Mitchell for ...
News - Fri 01 Sep 2006
Jonny Geller's Yes, But Is It Good For The Jews?
Jonny Geller, agent and Managing Director at Curtis Brown, has sold his book Yes, But Is It Good For The Jews? to Bloomsbury in the ...
News - Wed 23 Aug 2006
David Mitchell nominated for Quill Award
David Mitchell's Black Swan Green (Sceptre 2006) has been nominated for the prestigious US-based Quill Awards. The Quills are the first literary prizes to ...
News - Thu 15 Jun 2006
Sam Bourne on Richard and Judy's Book Club
Sam Bourne's novel The Righteous Men is one of the ten books included in Richard and Judy's Book Club, to be reviewed on ...
News - Thu 23 Mar 2006
Herbert and O'Brien shortlisted for Sports Book of the Year
Ivor Herbert and Jacqueline O'Brien's biography of horse trainer Vincent O'Brien has been shortlisted in the Best Biography Category for this year ...
News - Tue 21 Mar 2006
Giles Gordon Prize goes to Joe Dunthorne
The Curtis Brown Prize, awarded to the best prose fiction student on UEA's Creative Writing MA , was launched in March 2005. It was set ...
News - Thu 16 Feb 2006
Elizabeth Sheinkman joins Curtis Brown
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