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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....
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 longlisted 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....