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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. ...

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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