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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.

FOOTBALL SCHOOL: THE ULTIMATE PUZZLE BOOK by Alex Bellos has been shortlisted for best activity book in this year's Sainsbury's Children's Awards. The award is in partnership with BookTrust and aims to showcase the best children's books that families can share together. The winners will be announced 16th October 2020.

Huge congratulations to the amazing Maaza whose book THE SHADOW KING has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2020. The title has been sold into twelve languages so far: US: Norton; UK: Canongate; Arabic: offers; France: L?Olivier (pre-empt); Germany: DTV (pre-empt); Italy: Einaudi; Japan: Hayakawa; Korea: Munhakdgne; Russia: Eksmo; Spain: Galaxia Gutenberg; Sweden: offer; Turkey: Timas Find out more about The Booker Prize and the other longlisted titles here: https://thebookerprizes.com/booker-prize/news/2020-booker-prize-shorlist-announced

An exciting entry-level opportunity to join the foreign rights department of a dynamic, transatlantic literary agency. The London office of Janklow & Nesbit is looking for an enthusiastic and well-organised Rights Assistant to assist the Senior Rights Manager and Rights Manager, and to provide broader administrative support for the foreign rights team in selling translation rights for Janklow & Nesbit authors represented both out of London and New York (fiction, non-fiction, children?s and YA). The individual we are looking for needs to be highly organised, with exceptional attention to detail, and able to juggle and prioritise multiple responsibilities at once. A team player with strong interpersonal skills who takes initiative (and notes!). Experience and skill with systems necessary, as well as an interest in the global book market. Fluency in another language would be a bonus, as would previous experience within the publishing industry. As with all jobs in publishing, the candidate should have a passion for books! Key activities - Drafting and processing contracts - Invoicing, monitoring and chasing payments (as well as applying for tax exemption forms on behalf of our authors) - Database maintenance - Preparing catalogues and schedules for book fairs and other international trips - Liaising with authors - Reading and reviewing manuscripts Salary: ?23k with a review after six months. Academic requirements: A degree in any field ? arts or sciences. Please send a CV and covering letter to Zo? Nelson (znelson@janklow.co.uk) by Monday 14th September. More information about Janklow & Nesbit can be found at www.janklowandnesbit.co.uk and www.janklowandnesbit.com We are committed to employing staff on the basis of ability, regardless of ethnic origin, gender, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, age or socio-economic, regional or cultural background.

Congratulations to our wonderful Elly and her book THE LANTERN MEN (Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 12), as it's #2 in this week's UK Paperback Fiction Bestseller List. To find out more, or to get your own copy please click on the following: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lantern-Men-Ruth-Galloway-Mysteries/dp/1787477533

Two Janklow & Nesbit authors have been longlisted for the inaugural Diverse Book Awards, a new prize ceremony to recognise inclusivity in children's, YA and adult fiction. Yasmin Rahman's All the Things We Never Said and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Deathless Girls are in the YA longlist. The awards were created by writing community The Author School and received more than 50 submissions in their first year. Shortlists will be revealed at the end of September, and the winners in each category announced in October. The children's and YA prizes will be judged by a panel including 14-year-old Rebekah Banda from south-east London and 15-year-old Alicia Cruz from north-west London. Other judges include Hashtag BLAK commissioning editor Luisa Mar?a Negret, This is Book Love founder Samantha Williams, Pen & Inc editor Rob Green and chair of the CILIP Youth Libraries Group London committee Caroline Fielding. Winners from each category will receive a bundle of prizes including a trophy, a six-month PR and marketing membership of Literally PR?s "100 Club?", a This Is Book Love bookshop listing, editorial in Pen & Inc, the opportunity to be part of an author panel event to be hosted by The Author School, and to be part of the Margate Bookie online festival programme in November. The complete Young Adult Fiction longlist is: All The Things We Never Said by Yasmin Rahman (Hot Key Books) Becoming Dinah by Kit de Waal (Orion Children?s Books) Chinglish: An Almost Entirely True Story by Sue Cheung (Andersen Press) Oh My Gods by Alexandra Sheppard (Scholastic) The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta (Hodder) The Boxer by Nikesh Shukla (Hodder) The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Hachette) The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild-Palmer (Pushkin Children's)

Sharna Jackson's High Rise Mystery has been voted the Best Book for Younger Readers in the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2020, announced at midnight on the 29th July. Waterstones has said of Sharna's brilliant middle grade novel, that 'with its vibrant urban setting and winning characterisation, High Rise Mystery is a very welcome addition to the burgeoning child detective genre.' Alongside Sharna, the overall winning title was the Best Illustrated Book, Look Up! by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola. On receiving the award, Sharna said: 'I wanted to see if mystery?s codes and conventions could be transposed to today in a new context, to a working-class setting, led by two contemporary clever and funny black girls. I like to think that winning this prize means that the experiment was a success, so thank you!'

Maaza Mengiste has been longlisted for The Booker Prize 2020 for her book The Shadow King. Congratulations, we are so thrilled. For more about The Booker Prize and the other books longlisted, click here: https://thebookerprizes.com/booker-prize/news/2020-booker-prize-longlist-announced About The Shadow King: With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale. She helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms. But how could she have predicted her own personal war, still to come, as a prisoner of one of Italy's most vicious officers? The Shadow King is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power, and what it means to be a woman at war.

Greg Chivers' novel The Crying Machine has been shortlisted in the debut category of the 2020 Neukom Awards. Fellow shortlistee and Janklow & Nesbit Associates (US) author Ted Chiang, is in the open category with his hit Exhalation. The shortlist was determined by Rockmore and his Dartmouth University colleagues Professors Tarek El-Ariss, Peter Orner, and Eric Schaller, as well as Santa Fe Institute Professor Jessica Flack. The third annual speculative fiction awards program will be judged by spec fic writer Sam J. Miller, who also provided input on the shortlist selections. ?There?s lots to be angry about, and plenty of reasons for pessimism, but this list is proof that today?s speculative fiction writers can still help us imagine?and create?a better future,? said Miller. ?I?m eager to dive into this list, and suddenly intensely terrified at the prospect of picking winners out of such an excellent list of books, encompassing work from well-known genre luminaries and bright new lights in the literary sky.? Awards for both the debut and open book categories will be announced during the summer. Each award winner will receive a $5,000 honorarium that is typically presented during a Dartmouth-hosted panel discussion about the genre and the winning works.

Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton's Football School Season 4, latest in the bestselling Football School series, has been shortlisted for the Telegraph Children's Book of the Year award. The Sports Book Awards is the major annual promotion for sports writing and publishing, the awards exist to highlight the most outstanding sports books of the previous calendar year, to showcase their merits and to enhance their reputation and profile The Sports Book Awards was originally conceived as part of the famous National Sporting Club?s banqueting campaign programme. These enjoyable lunches and dinners brought the world of sports writing, publishing and entertainment together. It soon became evident that there was room for a major celebration of the best sports writing and the Sports Book Awards were born in 2002. The winners will be announced online on the 15th July 2020.