Annual Archives: 2026
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5th October 2026
Kit Chapman wins 2026 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize
Kit Chapman has won the 2026 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize for The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry (Profile Books). The... more »
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1st October 2026
Maurice Casey wins the Michel Déon Prize 2026
Maurice J Casey has been announced as joint winner (with John Waddell) of the 2026 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction, the first joint-awarding of the... more »
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16th September 2026
Shylashri Shankar and Alanna Skuse longlisted for HWA Awards 2026
BLOOD CASTE by Shylashri Shankar (Canelo) and THE SURGEON, THE MIDWIFE, THE QUACK: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England by Alanna Skuse (Oneworld Publications) have been longlisted... more »
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20th July 2026
Robin Dunbar wins 2026 International Cosmos Prize
Emeritus Fellow Professor Robin Dunbar has been awarded the 2026 International Cosmos Prize, one of the world’s leading international awards recognising contributions to the understanding... more »
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6th July 2026
HOTEL LUX by Maurice Casey shortlisted for The Michel Déon Prize
Maurice Casey’s brilliant HOTEL LUX: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals (Footnote Press/Bonnier) has been shortlisted along with five other titles for the 2026... more »
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4th June 2026
Diana McCaulay’s THE HOUSE FOR MISS PAULINE wins the 2026 RSL Ondaatje Prize
Congratulations to Diana McCaulay, whose A HOUSE FOR MISS PAULINE (Dialogue Books) has won the 2026 RSL Ondaatje Prize! The £10,000 prize, presented annually by... more »
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20th May 2026
Footnote pre-empts reworking of Noah’s Ark narrated by a flea
Footnote Press, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has pre-empted a “unique” and “passionate” re-working of the story of Noah’s Ark narrated by a flea.... more »
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22nd April 2026
Salt signs two-book deal with Rob Palk
Salt has signed a two-book deal with Rob Palk, including a new novel and a reissue of his debut. Christopher Hamilton-Emery, director of Salt, has acquired UK and Commonwealth... more »
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9th April 2026
PMJ bags ‘new history of the Victorians through the women they ignored’
Penguin Michael Joseph (PMJ) has acquired Victoriana: A New History of the Victorians Through the Women They Ignored from social media historian Rosie Harte. Publisher Jillian Taylor... more »