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Emma Glass has been longlisted for the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize

We’re delighted to see that Mrs Jekyll by Emma Glass has been longlisted for the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize....

The first episode of the Ten Little…series, Ten Little Elves, has been released

On Monday 9th December, Sky released the first episode of the Ten Little...series, Ten Little Elves, across Sky Kids and the Now TV platform. ...

Martin Waddell has been awarded the ‘Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award’

Beloved children’s book author Martin Waddell has been announced as the recipient of the 2024 An Post Irish Book Awards’ ‘Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award’....

The trailer for the live action adaption of How to Train Your Dragon has been released

We’re so excited to see that the official teaser trailer for the live action remake of How to Train Your Dragon has been released...

Ben Myers will collaborate with Warner Music Entertainment and Class 5 on an adaptation of Rare Singles

Ben Myers will collaborate with Warner Music Entertainment and production company Class 5 on an adaptation of his latest novel Rare Singles....

Pan Macmillan makes 48-hour pre-empt on Anna Brook-Mitchell’s Motherfaker

Pan Macmillan has snapped up Motherfaker in a 48-hour pre-empt, tipped as “the hilariously funny and deeply moving début book club novel” by Anna Brook-Mitchell....

Borough Press plucks Dandelion is Dead by debut novelist Rosie Storey

The Borough Press has plucked British rights to Dandelion is Dead by debut novelist Rosie Storey, with a trio of other territories snapped up in advance of Frankfurt Book Fair. ...

Hannah Stowe’s Move Like Water wins at the Banff Centre Awards

Hannah Stowe has won the Adventure Travel award in this year's Banff Centre Mountain Book Competition...

The Borough Press are set to publish Imani Thompson’s literary thriller debut Honey after winning 10-way auction

The Borough Press has won the rights to Imani Thompson’s blistering and addictive debut novel Honey....

Claudia Roden’s A Book of Middle Eastern Food has been named one of the 25 most influential cookbooks

We are delighted to see Claudia Roden’s A Book of Middle Eastern Food chosen by The New York Times as one of the 25 most influential cookbooks of the last 100 years....

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi has been shortlisted for the 2024 Kitschies awards

We're so excited to announce that The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi has been shortlisted for the Kitschies awards' Golden Tentacle. ...

The World To Come shortlisted for Foyles Book of the Year 2024

Robert Macfarlane's new children's book, The World To Come, is one of two children's titles to be shortlisted for Foyles Book of the Year 2024...

Slow Horses has officially been renewed for a sixth season

Slow Horses, the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ espionage series, has officially been renewed for a sixth season....

The Week Junior Book Awards features four DHA authors

We are thrilled to see DHA so strongly represented by our children’s writers at The Week Junior Book Awards 2024....

Waterstones Best Paperbacks of 2024

We're beyond thrilled to see five DHA books on Waterstones' list of Best Paperbacks for 2024...

Raymond Antrobus has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize

We’re thrilled to share that Raymond Antrobus has been shortlisted for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for his latest poetry collection, Signs, Music....

William Hussey has been shortlisted for the 2024 Polari Book Prize

We're delighted to see that Killing Jericho by William Hussey has been shortlisted for the 2024 Polari Book Prize. ...

Trish Cooke to provide additional material for the National Theatre’s 2025 revival of Alterations

Trish Cooke has been brought on by director Lynette Linton (Blues for an Alabama Sky, Shifters) to provide new material for a revival of Michael Abbensetts' era-defining comedy Alterations. ...

Momtaza Mehri wins the inaugural Sky Arts Awards for poetry

Momtaza Mehri has won the inaugural Sky Arts Awards for poetry for her debut collection, Bad Diaspora Poems....

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood is shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

We're delighted to announce that Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her remarkable novel, Stone Yard Devotional. ...

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi and Anna Metcalfe shortlisted for the 2024 Nota Bene Prize

Congratulation to these two DHA authors for making the 6-person shortlist...

Season 4 of Slow Horses premieres on Apple TV+ following its recent nine Emmy nomination success

Slow Horses, the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ espionage series, premiered its fourth season yesterday to much anticipation....

Kae Tempest and William Hussey have been longlisted for the Polari Book Prize

We're thrilled that William Hussey's Killing Jericho and Kae Tempest's Divisible by Itself and One have been longlisted for the 2024 Polari Book Prize. ...

Stephen Buoro, Anna Metcalfe, and Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi have been longlisted for Nota Bene Prize

We’re excited to announce that The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Chrysalis and The Centre have been longlisted for the 2024 Nota Bene Prize....

Mick Herron and Jacqueline Crooks have been appointed as Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature

We are so pleased to see that Mick Herron and Jacqueline Crooks have been appointed as Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature....

Nicola Davies, Hannah Stowe, Jackie Morris and Cathy Fisher have been longlisted for the Wainwright Prize

We are so pleased to announce that Skrimsli by Nicola Davies, Move Like Water by Hannah Stowe, and The Panda’s Child by Jackie Morris and Cathy Fisher are on the Wainwright Prize longlists....

Sky Kids have commissioned an animated series of the Ten Little series of books

Sky Kids have commissioned an animated series of the hugely popular Ten Little series of books, written by DHA author Mike Brownlow and illustrated by Simon Rickerty....

Jackie Morris and Nicola Davies win at the Wales Book of the Year awards

Sarn Helen illustrated by Jackie Morris and Skrimsli by Nicola Davies were both honoured at the Wales Book of the Year awards....

Andy Potter has been announced as the head writer for new Nickelodeon and Milkshake! animated series Tim Rex in Space

Tim Rex in Space follows a T-Rex named Tim, his big brother Tommy, little sister Tia, and triceratops Kai as “they tackle kid-shaped adventures with dino-sized solutions in space”....

Teresa Palmer, Jim Sturgess and Florence Hunt have been cast in the upcoming TV adaptation of Jane Sanderson’s ‘Mix Tape’.

Irish production company Subotica have teamed with ‘Lion’ and ‘Berlin Syndrome’ producers Aquarius Films on the series, with Boat Rocker handling international distribution. The series is already set to air on Australian streaming service Binge....

Jacqueline Crooks and Momtaza Mehri win Society of Authors’ awards

We’re excited to announce that Jacqueline Crooks and Momtaza Mehri have won awards for the 2024 Society of Authors (SoA) awards....

DHA is partnering with The Future Bookshelf and Hachette for another series of Grow Your Story

In partnership with David Higham Associates (DHA) and The Future Bookshelf, Hachette UK has opened submissions for its third cohort of the free development programme, Grow Your Story....

DHA MD Lizzy Kremer on 90 years of DHA

DHA’s Managing Director, Lizzy Kremer is featured on the cover of the latest issue of The Bookseller, to mark DHA’s recent rebrand and the agency’s upcoming 90th birthday. Lizzy celebrated the achievements of DHA clients and agents and discussed the future of the business. ...

The second series of World Productions’ critically acclaimed Karen Pirie drama has begun production in Scotland

The second series of World Productions’ critically acclaimed Karen Pirie drama has begun production in Scotland....

Diane Kruger and Jo Joyner have been cast in the upcoming adaptation of Sarah Vaughan’s ‘Little Disasters’ for Paramount+.

Diane Kruger and Jo Joyner have been cast in the upcoming adaptation of Sarah Vaughan’s 'Little Disasters' for Paramount+....

Lucy Holland and Lynsey May on the ILX10: Rising Stars of UK Writing

We're delighted to see Lucy Holland and Lynsey May on the ILX 10: Rising Stars of UK Writing list. Created by National Centre for Writing, and supported by British Council and Arts Council England ...

Tan Twan Eng has been shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize

Tan Twan Eng’s The House of Doors has been shortlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Honouring the achievements of the founding father of the historical novel, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world....

The Society of Authors awards feature four David Higham authors

We're excited to announce that four David Higham authors have selected for the The Society of Authors (SoA) awards 2024....

Wild Air by James Macdonald Lockhart is on the 2023 Highland Book Prize shortlist

Wild Air by James Macdonald Lockhart has been selected from a longlist of 12 titles to be shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize. ...

Maz Evans and William Hussey win at the 2024 Fingerprint Awards

Maz Evans and William Hussey have won 2024 Fingerprint Awards at this year’s Capital Crime Festival.  The Fingerprint Awards are reader-chosen awards which celebrate excellence in international crime and thriller writing....

Maz Evans, Mick Herron and Michelle Teahan have been shortlisted for CWA Daggers

Maz Evans' Over My Dead Body, Mick Herron's The Secret Hours, and Michelle Teahan's Go Seek have been shortlisted for for the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards....

Mick Herron, Val McDermid, William Hussey, and Simon Mason have been longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024 

We're delighted to see that Mick Herron, Val McDermid, William Hussey, and Simon Mason have been longlisted for the prestigious Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024. ...

Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson have been cast in the upcoming adaptation of Mick Herron’s Down Cemetery Road

Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson have been cast in Apple TV+’s upcoming adaptation of Mick Herron’s Down Cemetery Road....

Benjamin Myers’s Cuddy is on the RSL Ondaatje Prize shortlist

Benjamin Myers's Cuddy has been longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize, annual award of £10,000 for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place. ...

Jason Allen-Paisant and Jacqueline Crooks have been shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2024

We are thrilled to announce that Jason Allen-Paisant’s TS Eliot Prize winning collection Self-Portrait as Othello, and Jacqueline Crooks’ mesmerising and inventive debut novel Fire Rush have both been shortlisted for the prestigious Jhalak Prize for 2024....

Kate Morton, Maz Evans, Mick Herron and Michelle Teahan have been longlisted for CWA Daggers

We are thrilled to announce that Kate Morton, Maz Evans, Mick Herron and Michelle Teahan have been longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards....

Santanu Bhattacharya and Jacqueline Crooks are on the Authors’ Book Club Best Debut First Award 2024 shortlist

Santanu Bhattacharya's One Small Voice (Fig Tree) and Jacqueline Crooks’ Fire Rush (Jonathan Cape) are two of the six titles shortlisted for this Authors' Book Club Best Debut First Award....

Katharina Volckmer’s The Appointment will return to the stage at the Teatro Franco Parenti this April

Adapted and directed by Fabio Cherstich, the bold and powerful production returns to the stage from the 3rd to the 11th of April 2024 following the immensely successful run in 2021. ...

Elizabeth McCracken wins the 2024 Wingate Literary Prize

Elizabeth McCracken’s The Hero of This Book (Jonathan Cape) has won the Wingate Literary Prize, which is awarded each year to the best fiction or non-fiction book ‘to translate the idea of Jewishness to the general reader’....

Jacqueline Wilson revisits the Girls series in her new adult novel

Jacqueline Wilson returns to the Girls series in a new adult novel, Think Again, publishing in September 2024 with Transworld....

The McDermid Debut Award is announced by Harrogate Festival

The McDermid Debut Award for new crime writers has been launched by Harrogate Festival, named after ‘Queen of Crime’, Val McDermid....

Cape wins Kae Tempest’s new novel Having Spent Life Seeking in a major seven-way auction

Having Spent Life Seeking, the groundbreaking new novel by award-winning writer and musician Kae Tempest, has been acquired from Nicola Chang by Jonathan Cape in a competitive seven-way auction. ...

Nicola Davies and Catherine Rayner have been shortlisted for YOTO Carnegie Medals

Nicola Davies and Catherine Rayner have both been shortlisted OTO Carnegie Medals for their respective books Choose Love and The BowerBird....

Mick Herron is shortlisted for the British Book Awards for The Secret Hours

The Secret Hours by Mick Herron has been shortlisted in the crime and thriller category at The British Book Awards 2024! Mick is one of five authors, including Richard Osman and Robert Galbraith, to be shortlisted in the category....

Kathryn Scanlan wins Gordon Burn Prize for Kick the Latch

We are immensely proud of Kathryn Scanlan, who has won the £10,000 Gordon Burn Prize for Kick the Latch—a poised and vivid novel about one woman’s life at the race track, based on transcribed interviews with horse trainer, Sonia....

Santanu Bhattacharya, Stephen Buoro and Jacqueline Crooks are on the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award longlist

Stephen Buoro's The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Santanu Bhattacharya’s One Small Voice and Jacqueline Crooks' Fire Rush have been longlisted for the 70th Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award....

Mick Herron is a finalist for the 2024 ITW Thriller Awards

Mick Herron has been announced as a finalist in the Best Hardcover Novel category at the ITW (International Thriller Writers) Thriller Awards for 2024....

Momtaza Mehri’s Bad Diaspora Poems has been shortlisted for the Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award

Momtaza Mehri has been shortlisted for the Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award....

Matrescence by Lucy Jones has been longlisted for The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction

Matrescence by Lucy Jones has been longlisted for The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction...

Benjamin Myers and Tan Twan Eng are on the longlist for The Walter Scott Prize

Benjamin Myers' Cuddy and Tan Twan Eng's The House of Doors have been longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction ...

Momtaza Mehri and Jason Allen-Paisant win Forward Prizes for Poetry

Momtaza Mehri and Jason Allen-Paisant have both been awarded a Forward prize. ...

All of Us Strangers has been released in the UK

All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh’s film adaptation of Strangers by Taichi Yamada has been released in the UK....

Paula Hawkins’ new thriller The Blue Hour to be published in October 2024

The Blue Hour, a new unmissable thriller by globally best-selling writer Paula Hawkins, will be published by Transworld in the UK and by Mariner in the US on October 2024....

Divisible By Itself And One by Kae Tempest appears on the Dylan Thomas Prize’s longlist

Divisible by Itself and One, a powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest, has been longlisted for the 2024 Dylan Thomas Prize....

Four David Higham authors have been named Granta Best of Young British Novelists

Every ten years, Granta magazine names their 20 best British novelists under 40. Our clients Jennifer Atkins, Sarah Bernstein, Sophie Mackintosh, Saba Sams and Anna Metcalf were named Granta Best of Young British Novelists this year....

The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng is on the Booker Prize 2023 longlist

Tan Twan Eng has been longlisted for The Booker Prize for his masterful novel of public morality and private truth, The House of Doors....

Benjamin Myers’ Cuddy wins The Goldsmith’s Prize

Benjamin Myers success at The Goldsmith’s Prize where he won the £10,000 prize for Cuddy ...

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain is on the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize shortlist

We’re delighted to see Julian Jackson's France on Trial on this years The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize shortlist....

Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello wins the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize

Jason Allen-Paisant won the T.S. Eliot prize for his moving and lyrical second collection, Self-Portrait as Othello....

An Unusual Grief is on the 2023 SA Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlist

Yewande Omotoso’s novel An Unusual Grief has been shortlisted for the 2023 SA Sunday Times Literary Awards....

Kathryn Mannix receives an Increasing Understanding Award

Congratulations to Kathryn Mannix on receiving the Increasing Understanding award from Demystifying Death Awards! ...

Kathryn Scanlan has been shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award

Kathryn Scanlan has been shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award....

The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa is on the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the Nero Book Awards

Stephen Buoro has been shortlisted for the inaugural Nero Book Awards in the debut fiction category for his playful and propulsive debut novel The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa...

The French adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom releases on 6 February

We are delighted that the film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s classic Kensuke's Kingdom will be released in French cinemas on 6th February....

Sarah Bernstein’s Study for Obedience is on The 2023 Booker Prize shortlist

Sarah Bernstein’s urgent, darkly funny novel Study For Obedience has been shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize...

Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein wins the Giller Prize

Sarah Bernstein has been named the winner of the 2023 Giller Prize for her powerful novel, Study for Obedience....

Gao Xingjian receives the Royal Society of Literature’s International Writers Award

Gao Xingjian has been named as one of the recipients of the Royal Society of Literature’s International Writers Awards for 2023....

Laura Mucha and Michael Morpurgo are on the The Ruth Rendell 2024 shortlist

We’re delighted to see Laura Mucha and Michael Morpurgo on the The Ruth Rendell 2024 shortlist. ...

Gordon Burn Prize 2023 longlist features Kathryn Scanlan and Ben Myers

Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch and Benjamin Myers’s Cuddy have been longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2023, which was announced on the 7th December....

Val McDermid and Jane Gregory are appointed Vice-Presidents of Harrogate International Festivals

Val McDermid, known for good reason as the ‘Queen of Crime’, has been announced as a new Vice President of Harrogate International Festivals, along with former DHA literary agent Jane Gregory, who represented Val before her retirement....

Resistance: The Underground War wins the Wolfson History Prize

Halik Kochanski won prestigious Wolfson History Prize for Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945, the first English-language history of resistance to study the whole of Europe....

Claudia Roden was awarded her Honorary Degree from the University of London

Claudia Roden was awarded her honorary degree from the University of London, which she received in Senate House. ...

Maame by Jessica George is on the shortlist for three awards

Maame by Jessica George was shortlisted for TikTok Book of the Year, Audible Audiobook of the Year and GoodReads Debut and Fiction Book of the Year. ...

Robert Macfarlane has been nominated for the Premio Internazionale Nonino 2024

Robert Macfarlane was nominated for the “Premio Internazionale Nonino ” 2024, a prestigious award in Italy whose winners include six Nobel Laureates. ...

Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph wins the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022

Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph was the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022...

J Blakeson’s new thriller Culprits is now streaming on Disney+

J Blakeson’s thrilling series Culprits has landed on Disney+ in the UK and Hulu in the USA, with all episodes available to stream....

Apple TV launches season three of Slow Horses

Based on Mick Herron’s spy series of the same name, the third season of Slow Horses has launched on Apple TV to stunningly good reviews....

The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die is topping Netflix’s global list of most watched Films

The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die recently dropped on Netflix and has proved to be a worthy sequel to the five-season series that first hit screens in 2015!...

Nikita Gill’s These Are the Words is on the Jhalak Prize 2023 longlist

These Are the Words is on the longlist for the Jhalak Prize 2023 in the Children’s and YA category....
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