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Congratulations to Sarah Moss on being longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize for the third year running! Sarah's latest novel, THE TIDAL ZONE (2016, Granta) - an 'exceptionally courageous and unflinching novel of contemporary life' - is longlisted for for its 'unbearably sad, but also miraculously funny and ultimately hopeful'...
This weekend the winners of the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2017 will be announced. Valene Kane is up for Best Supporting Actor/Actress for THE STROMA SESSIONS. UA also have some wonderful writers in the running for awards. Al Smith ’s LIFE LINES is nominated for Best Audio Drama Series. Oliver...
Congratulations to Marion Coutts , who has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir THE ICEBERG (UK: Atlantic Books; US: Grove Atlantic). THE ICEBERG was longlisted for the Guardian First Book award, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Prize...
Congratulations to Alice Oswald, who has won the 2016 Costa Poetry Award for her latest collection, FALLING AWAKE . The collection was also shortlisted for the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Collection , and is currently shortlisted for the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize , which will be announced on 16...
Following the recent success of GIVING, Hannah Patterson's PLATINUM opens tonight at the Hampstead Theatre. This intriguing new play explores the impact that success and celebrity have on relationships and why honesty is not always the best policy. Adam Penford makes his Hampstead Downstairs directorial debut, with lighting design by...
Benighted , J B Priestley 's original haunted house psychodrama and a spine-chilling comedy that inspired The Rocky Horror Show and countless imitators, is brought to the stage for the very first time. Originally published as a novel in 1927, Benighted was brought to the screen by James Whale as...