Little Deaths wows again
Emma Flint’s Little Deaths has been longlisted for the Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of the year!
Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist
Couldn’t be more pleased that Kit de Waal has been shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. Winner to be announced on 21st June!
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
So thrilled that Nina Stibbe’s Paradise Lodge has been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize.
Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award Shortlist
We are delighted that Kit de Waal’s My Name is Leon is one of five novels shortlisted for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award 2017. A brilliant achievement!
Read more here.
Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
We are utterly thrilled that both Fiona Melrose’s Midwinter and Emma Flint’s Little Deaths have been longlisted for this year’s Baileys prize. Given that there were only three debuts on the list, JULA is very proud!
Hugely looking forward to this beauty
Out in March 2017, exciting!
Love, Nina is one of Helen Fielding’s ‘Favorite Reads of 2016’
“On the novel front, anything by P.G. Wodehouse never fails, but this year, Love Nina: A Nanny Writes Home worked just the same magic.”
Read more here.
Stunning Japanese cover for Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
We are entranced by the Japanese cover for The Apple Tart of Hope! Behold…
Lovely review of Midwinter – out this week!
‘A beautifully perceptive debut’ Psychologies Magazine
The Guardian loves The House of Birds
‘Sumptuous and satisfying … a deft and thrilling novel’ – read the whole review here
Alice Broadway’s INK
And these glorious golden things are just the PROOFS!!!
Have you seen the new jacket for Paradise Lodge?
You’ve got to love a sunlounger
A Girl called Love and In the Name of Love by Louise Lee
It’s so exciting when you start to see a series building, and when the second book is even better than the first you know you’re on to a winner.
A Girl called Love and In the Name of Love by Louise Lee so funny, pacy and delicious. Headline publish in early 2017
Fourth entry in the Wilf the Mighty Worrier series
The fourth in the Wilf the Mighty Worrier series by Georgia Pritchett might be my favourite so far. I have never loved a baby as much as I love stinky Dot – even my own. Superb illustrations by Jamie Littler
Emma Flint’s Little Deaths already getting so much attention
Already getting so much attention for Little Deaths by Emma Flint. Not out til January and already Jeffrey Deaver is calling it ‘Phenomenal’ and Megan Abbott calls it ‘Searing’
Cathy Rentzenbrink sold over 100,000 copies
So proud to go to Picador to toast Cathy Rentzenbrink when The Last Act of Love had sold over 100,000 copies. What a wondrous well-deserved journey that book has had!