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Happy 25th Anniversary NORTHERN LIGHTS

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Yesterday marked the 25 th anniversary of the first publication of NORTHERN LIGHTS (Scholastic, 1995), the first book in Philip Pullman’s iconic HIS DARK MATERIAL trilogy. To celebrate, Penguin Random House have announced the publication of SERPENTINE, a 16-year-old, never before seen story that links HIS DARK MATERIALS with...

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07/10/2020 - 12:16
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MOTHERING SUNDAY by Graham Swift to be adapted for a film starring Olivia Coleman and written by Alice Birch

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We are hugely excited by the recent announcement for the forthcoming film adaptation of Graham Swift’s novel MOTHERING SUNDAY starring Olivia Coleman and written by Alice Birch.

The story starts on Mothering Sunday, 1924. How will Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young), orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has...

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07/06/2020 - 15:16
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LIFE AS A UNICORN by Amrou Al-Kadhi has won a Somerset Maugham Award

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LIFE AS A UNICORN by Amrou Al-Kahi was one of just four winners of the 2020 Somerset Maugham Awards. Published in harback by 4th Estate (HarperCollins) in 2019, the paperback will be published this Autumn.

"It should be read far and wide" - Ian McKellan.

W. Somerset Maugham...

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06/25/2020 - 12:27
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THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN by George Szirtes is shortlisted for the 2020 James Tait Black Prize for Biography

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Many congratulations to George Szirtes , whose hybrid work of biography and memoir about his mother's life and the Holocaust, THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A FIGHTER (Maclehose Press, 2019), has been shortlisted in the Biography category of the James Tait Black Prizes 2020. The prizes...

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06/24/2020 - 19:07
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