Ayoade on Top out now!
Ayoade on Top – Richard’s ‘funniest creation yet’ (Jesse Eisenberg) – is out now. Listen to Richard talk about the book on Saturday Live
and then get yourself a copy!
Dear Mrs Bird on HWA Debut Crown Shortlist!
Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce has been shortlisted for the Historical Writers’ Association’s Debut Crown Award 2019. Congratulations AJ!
Publications, publications, publications!
Five incredible books by JULA authors have been published in the last seven days. Nadia Shireen’s Billy and the Dragon, The Sound of the Hours by Karen Campbell, Emma Smith-Barton’s debut The Million Pieces of Neena Gill, Kit de Waal’s The Trick to Time in paperback AND her debut YA novel Becoming Dinah!
Unmissable books!
The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan and Brian Bilston’s Diary of a Somebody have been named as ‘books you have to read for June‘ by the Reader’s digest. Both books are published this week.
Queenie in best books of 2019 list
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams has been named by the Guardian as one of the best books of 2019 so far – this of course is no surprise to us. See the article here.
Billy and the Beast is shortlisted for the Book Trust Storytime Prize
We are delighted! Congratulations Nadia!
Hooray for Jo!
Jo Unwin has been shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year 2019. The winner will be revealed tonight at the British Books Awards. We are all so proud of you Jo!
Stibbe crowned Comedy Queen!
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2019 has been awarded to our very own Nina Stibbe for her brilliant, warm and hilarious novel Reasons to Be Cheerful. We are so pleased – well done Nina! Read more here.
Emma’s the One to Watch!
Congratulations to Emma Smith-Barton’s whose debut novel The Million Pieces of Neena Gill has been chosen as The Bookseller’s One to Watch for July! UK publication is 11th July.
‘a moving and entertaining portrait of love and race today’
Queenie has been published in the UK and is having the incredible reception it deserves! Read the Guardian review here.
Publication day for Scar!
The explosive finale to the best-selling INK trilogy is out today!
‘A comic novel about love, lust and social angst at the dental surgery vividly evokes English provincial life in 1980’
Reasons to Be Cheerful had its UK publication on 28th March. Read the Guardian’s review here.
‘Carty-Williams has taken a black woman’s story and made it a story of the age’
Queenie is out in the US and getting incredible reviews. Not long now until UK publication, 11th April.
‘Liardet is a masterful observer’
Read the Guardian’s review of We Must Be Brave here
‘Every woman should get a copy’
Lucy’s brilliant book is one of Stylist Magazine’s best books of February
We love the paperback cover for She’s Not There!
Out January next year.
A book to tell you everything you’d ever need to know about
Coming out on 2nd November!
An Island Christmas is out now!
The finale to Jenny’s wonderful Mure series.
The Trick to Time on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist
We’re delighted, congratulations Kit!
Please pledge support for Common People!
Kit de Waal is editing an anthology of Working Class Writers, and it’s 90% funded. Help it get to 100% by pledging your support through Unbound.
‘This packs a huge emotional punch.’
Couldn’t agree more. Read the full review here.
Ink shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize!
JULA is incredibly proud of Alice!
Voila!
Take a look at the gorgeous French edition of Paradise Lodge
Oscar season is approaching…
Time to brush up on what you know about film