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Lipman novel in development for screen
Lipman novel in development for screen
A Los Angeles production company has acquired film and TV rights to Elinor Lipman’s latest novel Read more...
Ghost Tide wins children’s award
Ghost Tide wins children’s award
Jim Cockin’s spine-chiller has won the children’s category of the East Anglian Book Awards Read more...
Season shortlisted for Nero Awards
Season shortlisted for Nero Awards
George Harrison’s debut novel Season is on the shortlist for the Nero Book Awards 2025 Read more...
Two Lightning titles shortlisted for regional awards
Two Lightning titles shortlisted for regional awards
Novels by George Harrison and Jim Cockin are both finalists for the East Anglian Book Awards Read more...
Sea Defences wins silver in prize dominated by Eye group titles
Sea Defences wins silver in prize dominated by Eye group titles
Two-thirds of the New Angle Prize shortlist, including the runner-up, came from the Eye Books group Read more...
Eye to publish radio tie-in memoir of ‘door-to-door poet’
Eye to publish radio tie-in memoir of ‘door-to-door poet’
Eye is to publish memoir of ‘door-to-door poet’ Rowan McCabe in tie-in with BBC Radio 4 programme Read more...
Eye Books sets up new company to provide home for Unbound authors
Eye Books sets up new company to provide home for Unbound authors
Will Atkinson, the MD of Eye Books, has set up a new publishing company, Wilton Square Read more...
Eye to publish Unbound’s prize-winning The Low Road in paperback
Eye to publish Unbound’s prize-winning The Low Road in paperback
Eye has acquired paperback and ebook rights to The Low Road, the debut novel by Katharine Quarmby Read more...
Sea Defences shortlisted for New Angle Prize
Sea Defences shortlisted for New Angle Prize
Hilary Taylor’s Norfolk-set debut novel is shortlisted for the East Anglian literary prize Read more...
Eye acquires expat memoir of life in ‘the world’s happiest country’
Eye acquires expat memoir of life in ‘the world’s happiest country’
Eye acquires rights to a personal account of life in Finland by longtime resident Tim Bird Read more...
Nicola May works out TV deal for Working It Out
Nicola May works out TV deal for Working It Out
Bestselling author of the Cockleberry Bay series signs option agreement for earlier novel Read more...
Former head of Atlantic Books joins Eye as publisher and MD
Former head of Atlantic Books joins Eye as publisher and MD
Will Atkinson has joined Eye Books as publisher and managing director Read more...
Makereti’s ‘James Poneke’ named as joint-best NZ book of the century
Makereti’s ‘James Poneke’ named as joint-best NZ book of the century
Historical novel about Maori orphan in joint first place in poll of New Zealand literary experts Read more...
Local shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize
Local shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize
Humphreys’ account of exploring the ordinary moves to the shortlist of the nature-writing prize Read more...
Local longlisted for the Wainwright Prize
Local longlisted for the Wainwright Prize
Alastair Humphreys’ account of exploring the ordinary is listed for premier nature-writing prize Read more...
Sea Defences shortlisted for Paul Torday Memorial Prize
Sea Defences shortlisted for Paul Torday Memorial Prize
Hilary Taylor’s Broadchurch-style tale listed for the prestigious prize for older debut novelists Read more...
Ms. Demeanor makes the shortlist of three for the Thurber Prize
Ms. Demeanor makes the shortlist of three for the Thurber Prize
Elinor Lipman’s latest is a finalist for the premier US award for comic writing Read more...
The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean shortlisted for children’s book prize
The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean shortlisted for children’s book prize
Alastair Humphreys’ children’s version of his own Atlantic crossing is on a shortlist of five Read more...
Surreal comedy featuring Wilkie Collins reissued to mark bicentennial
Surreal comedy featuring Wilkie Collins reissued to mark bicentennial
Novel imagines seven literary greats in drug rehab, including the author of The Woman in White Read more...