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Ed Yong has been awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in The Atlantic. He has continued to write definitive and nuanced pieces on the dangers of the pandemic and how the American Government failed in its response. His article How the Pandemic Will End is The Atlantic's most read story. The Pulitzer Board recognised Yong ?for a series of lucid, definitive pieces on the COVID-19 pandemic that anticipated the course of the disease, synthesized the complex challenges the country faced, illuminated the U.S. government?s failures, and provided clear and accessible context for the scientific and human challenges it posed.? The George Polk Award for science reporting, the Victor Cohn Prize for medical-science reporting and the Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for investigative journalism are among other awards to recognise Yong for his reporting across the pandemic. He was named by Poynter as "the most important and impactful journalist of 2020."

We're immensely proud to see Elly Griffiths, Andrew Harding and Becky Cooper shortlisted for this year's CWA Dagger Awards. Elly Griffiths is nominated for the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel with THE POSTSCRIPT MURDERS. Andrew Harding's THESE ARE NOT GENTLE PEOPLE and Becky Cooper's WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE are both up for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger Award for non-fiction. Winners will be announced 1st July during a virtual awards ceremony.

We're delighted to see two of our brilliant authors, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Kathy O'Shaughnessy shortlisted in this year's The Society Of Author's Awards. THE MERCIES by Kiran Millwood Hargrave is shortlisted for the The Betty Trask Prize and Awards which awards authors under 35 for a first novel. Kathy O'Shaughnessy's IN LOVE WITH GEORGE ELIOT is shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize which is presented for first novels by authors over 60. The winners will be announced online on Wednesday 9 June 2021, during an online ceremony presented by novelist Joanne Harris and will be sponsored by the Authors? Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS).

We're proud to announce that Tsedal Neeley's compelling and essential Remote Work Revolution has been made a finalist for Next Big Idea Club's Spring 2021 must-read non-fiction titles. Next Big Idea Club brings readers the most groundbreaking books every season with each title being picked by their curators, Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant and Daniel Pink. Remote Work Revolution is amongst the eight finalists form which two will become the official picks of the season.

We're delighted to have three of our immensely talented authors longlisted for this year's CWA Daggers. Elly Griffith's THE POSTSCRIPT MURDERS is nominated for the Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel. Andrew Harding is nominated for the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction for THESE ARE NOT GENTLE PEOPLE. And last but not least, Charles Cumming's BOX 88 is longlisted for the Ian Flemming Steel Dagger for best thrillers. The shortlists will be announced on 9th May with the winners being revealed 1st July at a virtual Daggers live ceremony.

We are delighted to see Xiaolu Guo's beautifully tender A Lover's Discourse longlisted for The Orwell Prize for political fiction. A Lover's Discourse is an exploration of romantic love told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into life in a post-Brexit Britain, Xiaolu Guo shows us how this couple navigate these differences, and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a stifling flatshare in east London, or journeying through other continents together... Suffused with a wonderful sense of humour, this intimate and tender novel asks universal questions: what is the meaning of home when we've been uprooted? How can a man and woman be together? And how best to find solid ground in a world of uncertainty? The Orwell Prizes celebrate the writing and reporting which best meets the spirit of George Orwell's own ambition 'to make political writing into an art'. The shortlist will be announced at the end of May. Congratulations Xiaolu!

We're thrilled to see THE MERCIES by Kiran Millwood Hargrave longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021. The prize seeks to celebrate a diverse range of books by British/British resident BAME authors. The shortlist will be announced 13th April. This year Kiran will also be judging the Jhalak Children's and Young Adult Prize. You can find out more about both prizes using the link below: https://www.jhalakprize.com/the-prize

Nearly 25,000 copies of Football School: 20 Fantastic Football Stories will be distributed by The National Literacy Trust and the Premier League. Children taking part in the Premier League Primary Stars education programme will each receive a free copy of the title by Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton. Football School: 20 Fantastic Football Stories is also part of World Book Day's 2021 ?1 books. Football School: 20 Fantastic Football Stories authors, Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton will also be doing a live event on 4th March at 9:15am which you can join using the link below: https://www.facebook.com/events/169210308118355

Robert Penn's SLOW RISE is book of the week on BBC Radio 4 from the 1st-5th March. Adrian Scarborough will read Robert's account of how, over the course of a year, he learns to plant, harvest, thresh and mill his own wheat, in order to bake bread for his family. You can listen to the episodes and find out more using the link below: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sqkc

We're so proud to see Kiran Millwood Hargrave's beautiful THE DEATHLESS GIRLS longlisted for this year's CILIP Carnegie Medal. The shortlist will be announced 18th March.

We're thrilled to see THE NIGHT HAWKS debut at the #2 spot in The Sunday Times Bestseller Chart. Huge congratulations to our wonderful Elly!

FOOTBALL SCHOOL authors, Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton, will be taking part in the National Literary Trust's Where's Wally? Weekender which will kick off on the 20th March. The co-authors will don their Where's Wally? costumes and run 10k in their local areas to raise awareness and help support the literacy of disadvantaged children. Click on the link below for more details of the event and for a chance to sign up! https://literacytrust.org.uk/events/wheres-wally-weekender/

We're thrilled to see FEEL GREAT LOSE WEIGHT by Dr Rangan Chatterjee at the top spot in this week's UK Paperback Nonfiction List. It's more important than ever before that we get in shape, stay healthy and live well - Dr Chatterjee is back to show you how. Weight loss isn't a race. It isn't one size fits all. Drawing on twenty years of experience as a GP, Dr Rangan Chatterjee has created a conscious, long-lasting approach to weight loss that goes far beyond fad diets and helps to find the best solutions that work for you. Packed with quick and easy interventions this book will help you: 1. Understand the effects of what, why, when, where and how we eat 2. Discover the root cause of your weight gain 3. Nourish your body without any crash diets or gruelling workouts 4. Build a toolbox of techniques to help you lose weight, for good With Feel Great, Lose Weight you can make sustainable, medically-approved lifestyle changes and become a more energised, confident and healthy you.

We are thrilled that HUMANKIND has been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in nonfiction. The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, established in 2012, recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year and serve as a guide to help adults select quality reading material. They are the first single-book awards for adult books given by the American Library Association and reflect the expert judgment and insight of library professionals who work closely with adult readers. The shortlist will be released on 17th November 2020 with winners being announced on 4th February 2021.