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Draw with Rob!

We are thrilled to announce a new three-book contract with picture-book superstar Rob Biddulph based on Rob’s #DrawWithRob videos Launched in response to the closure of schools, Rob Biddulph has shared his #DrawWithRob videos twice a week on social media, encouraging and teaching children to draw their versions of… Read More

Catch up on Our Best New Books for Spring

With so much for everyone to focus on in recent weeks, we thought it would be useful to pull together a catch up of some of the best new books publishing this spring. From outstanding debut fiction such as Louise Hare’s This Lovely City and Kate Elizabeth Russell’s My… Read More

Global Premiere: Oliver Jeffers Reads His New Book Live!

We’re thrilled to share the news announced by Oliver Jeffers today that as part of #stayathomestorytime, he will be reading What We’ll Build on his Instagram Live. This will be a global premiere, scheduled for Monday, April 27th at 7pm. What We’ll Build will publish in hardback this autumn. Written especially… Read More

Indie Book Awards 2020

No Win Race by Derek A. Bardowell and Extraordinary Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson have been shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2020. We’re thrilled to announce that two books from our new Mudlark imprint have been shortlisted for the 2020 Indie Book Awards. Chosen by a judging panel of… Read More

Our Best New Food & Drink Books

This coming autumn and into spring 2021 we have a wonderful line-up of food & drink books to look forward to. Our field sales team have handily put the main highlights together in one presentation. Click the link below to see what’s coming up! View our food &… Read More

Catch up on Our Best New Books for June

With a number of changes to the publication schedule over recent weeks, we thought it would be helpful to pull together the latest round-up of new titles coming up next month. Click the image below to open the June new titles presentation from our field sales team. There’s… Read More

On Fact and Fiction, Christina Dalcher on writing Q

Q is a work of fiction, but the historical events referenced (and there are many of them) are very real. When I wrote VOX, I had no idea where it would lead or how a fictional re-creation of the Culture of Domesticity would ring so relevant in… Read More

On Les Mis̩rables РKester Grant on writing Court of Miracles

“I remember as a small child shaking my fist at the sky and swearing to one day write a story where Eponine and Cosette got the screen-time they deserved.” “The Court of Miracles was born out of four things. Firstly as a Les Misérables uber-fan (both book and musical), I was always frustrated by… Read More

On Loneliness – Beth Morrey on writing Saving Missy

Missy enjoys a coming-of-age, discovering it’s never too late to change, never too late to hope for something better. “When I started the book that became Saving Missy, I had just two scenes in mind. The first was a lonely woman walking to a lake… Read More

A Letter to Booksellers from Jay Kristoff

Working on The Nevernight Chronicle has been a strange experience for me. Truth told, I had no idea if other people would love the MC as much as I did. I mean, she’s not even traditionally likeable. She swears, she smokes, she murders people. She’s stubborn and reckless and… Read More

On Personal History, Christopher De Vinck on writing Ashes

A deeply touching novel about two young women whose differences, which once united them, will tear them apart forever, during Hitler’s Nazi occupation of Belgium and France. Inspired by true events. When my Belgian grandmother was 90-years-old and sitting in the back porch, she told me the story… Read More

On Seduction, Clement Knox on writing Strange Antics

“This book isn’t about the law. In fact, it began by asking a simple question about books. Why is so much of our literature about seduction?” In 1848 New York state criminalized seduction. The new law declared seduction a ‘crime against society’ and those men found… Read More

On Generation Gaps, Helen Monks Takhar on writing Precious You

“The divisiveness of the millennial/midlife generation gap felt powerful enough to drive a propulsive thriller.” ‘In my twenties, going for a jog demanded I prepare myself for the comments and car horns of men. Cut to fifteen-odd years later and I realise my runs are now wholly… Read More

On Animals, Peter Godfrey-Smith on writing Metazoa

“The book is born of both philosophical reflection and time alongside animals.” ‘Metazoa approaches the puzzles of mind and body by exploring the nature of life, the history of animals, and the different ways of being an animal. ‘Metazoa’ simply means animals. This book is a continuation of… Read More