J&N UK dominate the first bestseller list of 2025!
J&N UK are once again dominating the Sunday Times Bestseller list in non-fiction with Dr Rangan Chatterjee's MAKE CHANGE THAT LASTS (Penguin Life) topping the charts in paperback and Gillian Anderson's WANT (Bloomsbury) — 4 months after its initial publication — coming in at number 2 in hardback! It's fantastic to see these books fly; congratulations to both authors and their publishers.
WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM? is shortlisted for The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2024!
We're thrilled to see that Janklow author Adam Rutherford and his book WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM? is shortlisted for The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2024!
Dr Emrys Evans, a member of the judging panel, said of the book: ‘Being half Welsh and half Thai, growing up I was often asked the question ‘Where are you really from?’, and was not sure how to answer it. Adam Rutherford tackles this question in such an engaging, humorous way, taking readers through millions of years of human history to explain how - no matter where you live, the language you speak or the colour of your skin – we all share the same common ancestors.”
The Young People's Book Prize aims to promote literacy in young people and inspire them to read about science. It also supports the writing of excellent, accessible STEM books for under-14s. Each year, the winner is selected by judging panels made up of thousands of young people at schools across the UK from a shortlist selected by an adult panel.
A shortlisting panel made up of scientists, a best-selling children's author, a teacher, and a wildlife conservationist has whittled down dozens of titles to six of the year’s most fascinating books. The winning book will be unveiled at an award ceremony in Scotland in March 2025 with school groups and judges invited to join on the day for a host of science related workshops and activities. You can read about the full shortlist here.
WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM? wins Children's Book of the Year: STEM at The Week Junior Book Awards!
Janklow & Nesbit author Adam Rutherford has won the Children's Book of the Year: STEM for WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM? alongside his co-writer Em Norry and illustrator Adam Ming. The book was published by Hachette Children's in September 2023.
The category, in association with The Week Junior Science + Nature, celebrates excellence in engaging children with STEM subjects. The criteria specified that the winner would be a book that explains big ideas clearly, engagingly and accessibly, encouraging readers’ curiosity, sparking their imaginations, inspiring further inquiry and prompting them to share their newfound knowledge.
WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM? is a book that “blew my mind” said one of the judges of the winner, which takes readers on a fascinating scientific trip through human history. All four judges agreed that it’s not only a very good read, but also accessible, funny and important.
The Week Junior Book Awards were established to celebrate the brilliant world of children’s books and the talented people who create them — the awards honour the authors, illustrators and publishers who inspire children to read for pleasure. The emphasis is on original ideas, outstanding illustration and smart storytelling, as well as new and diverse talent.
Big congratulations to Adam, Em and Adam! 🎊
Helen Czerski Awarded the Wainwright Prize for BLUE MACHINE
Congratulations to Helen Czerski's BLUE MACHINE on winning the Wainwright Prize's Conservation Category for 2024!
Helen Czerski, a physicist and oceanographer, explores the vital role of the ocean in sustaining life on the rest of the planet. BLUE MACHINE: How The Ocean Shapes Our World, was published by Penguin in October last year.
Judging the conservation category was chair Joycelyn Longdon, an environmental justice researcher and founder of education platform Climate in Colour. In the book, "readers are immersed into the world of the ocean with spectacular detail, from the minuscule to the macroscopic, guided through the ocean's anatomy and introduced to the people who live in intimate relationships with it."
A £7,500 prize will be shared between the three winners, who were announced at a ceremony at Camley Street Natural Park, an urban nature reserve in London on the evening of September 11th, 2024.
Previous Wainwright prize winners include James Rebanks, Merlin Sheldrake, Robert Macfarlane and Amy Liptrot. In 2023, Amy-Jane Beer won the nature writing category with The Flow, while Guy Shrubsole won the conservation category for The Lost Rainforests of Britain.
Gillian Anderson hotly-anticipated book WANT: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous is out now and straight to Number 1 on Amazon Bestsellers! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Want-...'Want makes for addictive reading . . . compelling' GuardianWhat do you want when no one is watching?Who do you fantasise about when the lights are off?When you think about sex, what do you really want?When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet so many of us don't talk about it at all.In this groundbreaking book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous sexual fantasies of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous submission). They are all extraordinary: full of desire, fear, intimacy, shame, satisfaction and, ultimately, liberation. From dreaming about someone off-limits to conjuring a scene with multiple partners, from sex that is gentle and tender to passionate and playful, from women who have never had sex to women who have had more sex than they can remember, these fantasies provide a window into the most secret part of our minds.
Dr Hannah Fry is awarded the Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture!
Janklow & Nesbit author Professor Hannah Fry has been awarded the Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture! Professor Fry was chosen 'for her prolific science communication activity as the foremost populariser of maths in the country who continues to inspire young people to pursue maths and physics in fun and exciting ways.'
The Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture is awarded annually to an individual for outstanding public engagement with science. The award, open to everyone, recognises high quality public engagement activities and complements the Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture. The award is named after the United Kingdom’s best-loved naturalist and broadcaster, and honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, David Attenborough. The medal is of silver gilt, is awarded annually and is accompanied by a gift of £2,500.
Huge congratulations to Hannah! 🥇
BLUE MACHINE by Helen Czerski is on the Wainwright Prize's Conservation Shortlist 2024!
It's fantastic to see Helen Czerski's BLUE MACHINE: How The Ocean Shapes Our World, published by Penguin in October last year, on the Wainwright Prize's Conservation Shortlist 2024! The organisers said of the six-strong shortlist: 'While confronting the realities of a world in crisis – from wildfires, the global waste industry and climate change anxiety – the shortlisted books offer solutions to fight environmental destruction, as well as a rallying cry to find peace and connection in the pockets of nature on all of our doorsteps.'
The winners will be announced on Wednesday 11th September at a ceremony at Camley Street Natural Park, near Kings Cross in London, where a £7,500 prize fund will be shared. You can see details of all the Wainwright Prize shortlists here.
Best of luck to Helen! 🏆
Tom Chivers' EVERYTHING IS PREDICTABLE is shortlisted for The Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2024!
We're thrilled to see Tom Chivers' EVERYTHING IS PREDICTABLE: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World on the shortlist for this year's Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize! The book, published in April by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, is one of a 6-strong shortlist for the prize which celebrates the best popular science writing from across the globe.
Professor John Hutchinson, chair of the 2024 judges, said:
“Competition for this shortlist was extreme. 2023-2024 has been an incredible year for great science books. Our shortlist spans a wonderful variety of highly timely topics: from artificial intelligence and privacy issues to the challenges of space settlement, to the underappreciated importance of a statistical method, to the evolution of female reproductive biology, to the discovery of human-induced extinction itself, and to the biology of ageing and death. There’s something for everyone interested in science here, whether it’s for your own leisure reading and enlightenment, a generous gift to someone else, or for education in STEM disciplines. Humanity needs creative and scholarly books like these that digest the huge wealth of modern scientific understanding and translate it into accessible impact.”
And the judging panel said of EVERYTHING IS PREDICTABLE:
“This is a highly impressive book that immediately hooks the reader in. Chivers is an exemplary writer and his distinctive voice shines through as he covers Thomas Bayes’ theories in an accessible and exciting way. This is a book for anyone who wishes to expand their knowledge of maths, and it illuminates aspects of probability and its applications in today’s society that are hugely relevant to us all.”
We wish Tom the best of luck 🏆 You can see the full shortlist here!
LOVE TRIANGLE by Matt Parker is a #1 Sunday Times Bestseller!
Janklow & Nesbit's own Matt Parker was crowned at #1 of The Sunday Times Bestseller this week! His book, LOVE TRIANGLE: How Trigonometry Shapes the World, has been greeted with universal praise, including from Tom Calver who wrote in The Sunday Times: “This book is an attempt to rescue trigonometry from the bounds of boredom—and for many reasons, there will not be another like it this year.” Author Matt Parker, described as “maths royalty”, is the mathematician behind the YouTube channel Stand-Up Maths which has more than a million subscribers. “This book is not for everyone: algebra, computer code and A-level trigonometric equations are nakedly strewn all over its pages. But Parker is funny, likeable and aware enough of his audience to carry them along. And those who persevere will end up smarter than they were when they started it.”
Huge congratulations to Matt Parker and Allan Lane!
Yomi Adegoke's THE LIST is longlisted for The Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2024
We're thrilled to see that Yomi Adegoke's smash-hit THE LIST (published by Fourth Estate) has been longlisted for The Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2024. Judged by the Goldsboro team of booksellers, the prize rewards ‘compelling storytelling with brilliant characterisation and a distinct voice that is confidently written and assuredly realised’ in all genres.
The winner — announced on Thursday, 26th September, at Goldsboro’s 25th Birthday party — will be awarded £2,000 and a beautiful, handmade, engraved blue glass bell. Previous winners include Chris Cleave for Everyone Brave is Forgiven (Sceptre), John Boyne for The Heart’s Invisible Furies (Transworld), Christina Dalcher for VOX (HQ) & Ayanna Lloyd Banwo for When We Were Birds.
David Headley, Goldsboro Books co-founder, MD, and founder of the Glass Bell, says: ‘This is the longest list we have chosen in the eight years since we launched this prize. Reading is one of the greatest comforts available to us in these uncertain times – and each of these stories constructs very different but equally immersive worlds for readers to inhabit. This longlist highlights fourteen of the best works of fiction around today! I’m looking forward to our judging discussions – there’s so much to be said about each of these remarkable novels, and I feel that this year will be particularly difficult choosing a winner because we couldn’t cut the longlist to our normal twelve, so passionate were the team about each book.’
You can find the full longlist here.
BLESSINGS by Chukwuebuka Ibeh is LONGLISTED for the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize
Chukwuebuka Ibeh's breakout debut BLESSINGS has been longlisted for the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize! The prize is convened by The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation, whose mission they describe as follows:
The foundation’s aim is to open a space for these writers, young and old, from across the globe, to shine. The first stage of our mission will be to award an annual prize for adventure writing – the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. The next stage will be to reach out to writers and readers across the world, bringing the spirit of adventure into their lives and inspiring them to undertake their own journeys of discovery. More than anything we want the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation to be an organisation that uplifts, inspires and educates.”
Chukwuebuka is one of 12 longlistees for the £10,000 prize who were chosen by a panel of librarians and library staff from across the UK who meticulously reviewed more than 100 submissions from publishers and literary agents. The shortlist — revealed on 30th May — will be reviewed by a judging panel which consists of: Matt Barr, host of Looking Sideways Action Sports podcast and author; Lee Craigie, Active Nation Commissioner for Scotland and champion cyclist, Alasdair Harris, marine conservationist and founder of Blue Ventures; Sarah Outen, author and first woman and the youngest person to row solo across the Indian Ocean; and Emma Styles, author and winner of the 2023 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.
The overall winner will be announced on 19th September; you can see the full longlist here.
THE LIST by Yomi Adegoke is a Richard & Judy's Book Club pick!
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller THE LIST by Yomi Adegoke is a Richard & Judy's Book Club pick for April!
Ola Olajide, a high-profile journalist, is marrying the love of her life in one month's time. Young, beautiful, successful - she and her fiancé Michael seem to have it all. That is, until one morning when they both wake up to the same message: 'Oh my god, have you seen The List?' It began as a list of anonymous allegations about abusive men. Now it has been published online. Ola made her name breaking exactly this type of story. She would usually be the first to cover it, calling for the men to be fired. Except today, Michael's name is on there. With their future on the line, Ola gives Michael an ultimatum to prove his innocence by their wedding day, but will the truth of what happened change everything for both of them?
The book, now out in paperback, has won praise from a clutch of publications and authors alike, with Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo calling the novel 'topical, heartfelt, provocative' and best-selling author Paula Hawkins gushing that it's 'impossible to put down'.
You can buy all of the Richard & Judy's Book Club picks here.
Will Francis shortlisted for Agent of the Year at The British Book Awards
We couldn't be more proud to see Janklow & Nesbit's very own Will Francis shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year at The British Book Awards, aka The Nibbies.
Selectors of the shortlist had this to say about the reasons for his making the cut: “Will Francis of Janklow & Nesbit has a flair for building agenda-setting non-fiction, from Adam Rutherford, Tracy King, Mary Ann Sieghart and Ed Yong among others in 2023. He’s a very strategic agent with an eye on the long-term rather than instant hits, and with Rangan Chatterjee has shown he can build big author brands.”
Several of Will's clients have added their praise via social media with Pete Etchells - author of the forthcoming UNLOCKED: The Real Science of Screen Time (and how to spend it better) - tweeting: "It's so great to see this. Will is the kindest, most thoughtful, compassionate and genuinely interested (and interesting!) agent that anyone could ask for. It's a privilege to work with him, and he should win all the awards."
We wish Will the best of luck! The winner will be announced at a ceremony at Grosvenor House London on Monday 13th May. You can see the remainder of the Book Trade Award shortlists here: https://www.thebookseller.com/...
Monica Heisey and Yomi Adegoke both shortlisted for Fiction Book of the Year at The British Book Awards
We're hugely proud to see that not one but two Janklow & Nesbit authors are featured on the shortlist for Debut Fiction of the Year at The British Book Awards aka The Nibbies: REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY by Monica Heisey and THE LIST by Yomi Adegoke, both published by Fourth Estate. THE LIST also features in the shortlist for Audiobook Fiction of the Year.
“Last year saw the book business roll up its sleeves, stare down the cost-of-living crisis and post-Covid-19 troubles, and unleash a series of memorable and remarkable new titles,” said Philip Jones, editor of The Bookseller and chair of The British Book Awards judging panel. “Book-ended by two record-breakers – Prince Harry’s Spare and the fifth book in Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper series – this year’s titles did what the industry does best: start conversations, connect communities and push boundaries. Our collective ability to support the creative endeavours of writers and illustrators, and to judge and deliver what readers want, continues to be a wonder to behold. It is an honour to celebrate these success stories.”
The awards celebrate the whole journey of a book – from the author’s mind to the reader’s hand. The 12 category winners, and the winner of Overall Book of the Year, will be unveiled at a ceremony at Grosvenor House London on Monday 13th May. The category awards will be nominated by separate panels, with judges including Toby Jones, Nihal Arthanayake, Lorraine Kelly, Adrian Chiles and Yinka Bokinni, as well as Candice Brathwaite and Diana Evans.
You can see the shortlist for all categories here: https://www.thebookseller.com/...
WANT by Gillian Anderson will be published on 5th September!
Gillian Anderson has announced the September publication date for WANT, an anthology of sexual fantasies submitted anonymously by women from around the world and collated by Gillian. Bloomsbury Books will publish the book on 5th September 2024.
Following the announcement, the book soared in the number 2 spot on Amazon's Movers and Shaker's List which tracks the upward trajectory of books on their site in a 24 hour period. It's available to pre-order now at she-wants.com.
RED SIDE STORY by Jasper Fforde is #2 on The Sunday Times Bestseller list!
Jasper Fforde's much-anticipated RED SIDE STORY — the second in his SHADES OF GREY series — has debuted at the number 2 spot on The Sunday Times bestseller list! It was featured by The Guardian in their roundup of the best recent science fiction and fantasy books and they said of the novel: "Cleverly constructed, with engaging characters and lots of good jokes, this sparkling Wizard of Oz-inspired fantasy is the second book in an intended trilogy, and one of the quirkiest dystopias ever imagined." Huge congrats to Jasper and Hodder!
Eva Rice's THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING is a Richard & Judy's Book Club Pick!
Eva Rice's THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING — published in paperback on 07/12 — has been chosen as a Richard & Judy's Book Club pick for December. The novel is about a young woman finding happiness again after her life is shattered by grief. It’s 1990 in glamorous Notting Hill, a London alive with pop music, models and film stars. At 19, February Kingdom is knocked sideways by tragedy, but her journey back to joy is tenderly chronicled in this enchanting feel-good novel. Judy Finnigan said: “This is such a wise, tender book about the bond between sisters, full of warmth, sadness and joy.”
Amongst those praising the book is much-loved author Jojo Moyes who said of the novel: "Every time I have read one of Eva Rice’s books it has felt like a modern classic. Tender, and acutely observed, the characters of THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING have stayed with me. Reading it every night felt like wrapping myself a comfort blanket".
You can read more about the Richard & Judy Book Club picks here: https://www.thebookseller.com/...
Rebecca Renner's GATOR COUNTRY is #4 at Hudson News
Rebecca Renner's GATOR COUNTRY, published by Flatiron on 14th November, has peaked at #4 on the Hudson News bestselling chart! This is an indicator of sales nationwide and follows a flurry of excellent reviews in a number of outlets, from the New York Times — 'Every species, and every person who fights for its continued existence, deserves a book like this' — and the Tampa Bay Times who called the book 'a loving natural history of the irreplaceable Everglades'. Orlando Weekly said of the author, 'Renner is a natural storyteller, and she does service to wild Florida, igniting an answering passion in the reader.'
GATOR COUNTRY is available now to order online and at all good bookshops.
Kehinde Fadipe's debut "The Sun Sets in Singapore" is November's Jenna Bush Book Club Pick
“The Sun Sets in Singapore” by Kehinde Fadipe is Jenna’s book club pick for November, set amid the hustle and bustle of Singapore, where three Nigerian expats are attempting to live their best lives. This debut publishes on Oct. 31 in the US and out now in the UK.
“I think you will fall in love with this trio of women because you will relate to them, you will fall in love with Singapore and you will leave with more compassion and more understanding,” Jenna Bush Hager says of what she calls the “dazzling debut novel.”
“It’s about three best friends who each are at a different stage in their lives, even though they’re the same age, which I find to be so relevant for women these days,” Jenna says. “I loved this story about friendship, who we lean on, female ambition and what defines us.”
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