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Two books from the Eye Books Group longlisted for the Polari Prize 2026
Two books from the Eye Books Group longlisted for the Polari Prize 2026
Congratulations to this year’s Polari Prize First Book Prize longlisted writers. We’re delighted that two books from the Eye Books Group have been recognised on the 2026 longlist. I’m Fine... Read more...
Rowan McCabe takes Hard Knocks on tour
Rowan McCabe takes Hard Knocks on tour
Rowan McCabe takes Hard Knocks, his lively blend of poetry, comedy and stories about community and connection, on tour across the UK this autumn. Read more...
Polly Clark shortlisted for Anne Brown Essay Prize
Polly Clark shortlisted for Anne Brown Essay Prize
Polly Clark has been shortlisted for the 2026 Anne Brown Essay Prize for Speaking Animal, an exploration of how encounters with animals have shaped her understanding of attention, compassion and... Read more...
‘Mad About Books’ launches on ABC Radio in Suffolk
‘Mad About Books’ launches on ABC Radio in Suffolk
Alde Blythe Community Radio has launched Mad About Books, a weekly programme presented by Brad Young featuring authors Robert Ashton and Simon Eyre. Read more...
Wilton Square Books to publish John Healy’s second memoir
Wilton Square Books to publish John Healy’s second memoir
Wilton Square Books is to publish the second volume of John Healy’s memoir, 40 years after the publication of his acclaimed first book, The Grass Arena. Read more...
Wilton Square Books acquires Clare Clark’s Adder Stone
Wilton Square Books acquires Clare Clark’s Adder Stone
Wilton Square Books has acquired Clare Clark’s Adder Stone, a historical novel inspired by the flooding of a north Wales valley to create a reservoir for Liverpool Read more...
George Harrison shortlisted for Betty Trask Prize
George Harrison shortlisted for Betty Trask Prize
George Harrison has been shortlisted for the 2026 Betty Trask Prize for his debut novel Season, published by Lighting, Eye Books. Read more...
Wilton Square Books acquires new exploration of mixed-race Britain
Wilton Square Books acquires new exploration of mixed-race Britain
Wilton Square Books has acquired Everyone Everywhere: 21 Stories of Mixed Race Britain, a new collection by Lucas Fothergill exploring identity, heritage, family and belonging across contemporary Britain. Read more...
Wilton Square Books acquires Emily Woof’s new novel
Wilton Square Books acquires Emily Woof’s new novel
Wilton Square Books has acquired Ecstatic by Emily Woof, an electrifying near-future novel about environmental decline, resistance and the transformative power of dance. Read more...
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...