The prize was awarded at the Laugharne Weekend literary festival. Cragg said: “I know it’s a cliche but I was genuinely happy just to have been nominated for this prestigious prize, so to actually win it is pretty overwhelming.”
Michael Cragg’s ‘Reach For The Stars’, Audrey Golden’s ‘I Thought I Heard You Speak’ and Richard Morton Jack’s ‘Nick Drake: A Life’ are among the titles selected for the prestigious prize.
Iain MacGregor acquired world rights in Reds: The History of Communism from the Neolithic to Xi’s China – and US rights have just been bought by Scribner.
“Turning The Pebbles, the memoir by the Ashes-winning captain, is the work of the ultimate polymath — a scholar, psychoanalyst and almost a spy. It is unlike any book you will read this year.”
Arif Ahmed will defend “all views”, following his appointment as the first director for freedom of speech and academic freedom. He will have responsibility for investigating breaches of the Freedom of Speech Act…
White Rabbit has signed Come My Fanatics: A Journey into the World of Electric Wizard, the inside story of a band said to be the heaviest in the world and the “pioneers” of doom metal, by Dan Franklin.