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BBC Woman’s Hour Double Bill
Posted on January 28, 2020
January’s been a good month for our authors with both Adelle Hay and Marion Dunn being interviewed for BBC Radio 4 Woman…
TV option for thriller writer Iain Maitland
Posted on January 23, 2020
Iain Maitland’s thriller, Mr Todd’s Reckoning (Contraband) has been optioned for TV by AbbottVision, producers of critic…
Kenneth Steven’s prescient novel named on Portico Prize longlist
Posted on September 30, 2019
Kenneth Steven’s 2020, a novel depicting Britain at breaking point, has been longlisted for the prestigious Portico Priz…
A Proper Person to be Detained: The story of a murder and its aftermath
Posted on July 4, 2019
Catherine Czerkawska’s A Proper Person to be Detained, published by Contraband on 4 July, tells the true story of the mu…
J.A. Mensah wins inaugural NorthBound Book Award
Posted on June 28, 2019
Gateshead-based writer and researcher Juliana Mensah has won the inaugural NorthBound Book Award as part of the 2019 Nor…
Ghost Trees longlisted for the Wainwright Prize
Posted on June 5, 2019
Bob Gilbert’s Ghost Trees has been longlisted for the prestigious Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for UK nature and tr…