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168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers by Keith Cameron is a Sunday Times Bestseller
September 23, 2025
Writing with the band’s full co-operation, Keith Cameron tells the history of Manic Street Preachers in 168 songs, “a forensic exploration of their compositions and recordings, and everything that has been poured into them…completely definitive.” MOJO ★★★★★
Holt pre-empts North American rights for GIRLS: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything by Freya India
July 29, 2025
Author of the Substack GIRLS and staff writer at After Babel Freya India’s non-fiction debut explores the ruthless commercialisation of the inner lives of young women and the effect it has had on this misunderstood generation.
Constable wins eight-way auction for Simple Minds memoir, Our Secrets Are The Same
July 23, 2025
“Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill, together with Graeme Thomson, have written an outstanding memoir that transcends the music genre…as much about the bonds of friendship and rootedness as it is about becoming one of Britain’s most influential bands.”
Kevin Rowland’s memoir Bless Me Father is a Sunday Times bestseller
July 21, 2025
“Blazingly honest … a confessional book ― at times almost recklessly candid ― but it’s also a profoundly sad family memoir.” Victoria Segal, The Sunday Times
‘Kaleidoscopic’ Beach Boys biography goes to New Modern
July 6, 2025
New Modern has acquired Surfs Up: Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys by award-winning music writer Peter Doggett. It will be “the definitive tribute to a remarkable band and the genius who made it all possible.” Out on 6th November …
Salt unveils ‘tour-de-force’ novella by David Flusfeder
July 6, 2025
Something Might Fall by David Flusfeder will be published by Salt in May 2026. “This is Flusfeder’s masterpiece” – Julie Myerson
‘Acid-dipped’ memoir of a lost Ibiza signed by New Modern
June 16, 2025
Set to be published on 11th September 2025, The Motel: High Times in 90s Ibiza by Claire Manumission provides an exclusive look at the wild goings-on behind the doors of the most iconic club Ibiza has ever seen.
Douglas Murray is at Number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list for a second week
April 30, 2025
On Democracies and Death Cults has also been in the New York Times bestseller list for two weeks.
White Rabbit Announce 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers by Keith Cameron
April 30, 2025
Through forensic analysis and extensive interviews with both Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield, it tells the story of 168 songs across 40 years, and is available in three different editions.
Douglas Murray goes straight in at Number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list
April 22, 2025
A strong first week in the UK for “On Democracies and Death Cults”. Watch Douglas Murray discuss the book on the Sam Harris podcast here…
White Rabbit signs Audrey Golden’s Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats
April 19, 2025
Featuring exclusive interviews and never-before-seen images from The Raincoats’ archive, Shouting Out Loud is the first full history of this pioneering group of women who are one of the most radical bands of all time.
On Democracies and Death Cults by Douglas Murray goes straight in at Number 2 on the New York Times bestseller list
April 19, 2025
You can listen to Douglas Murray discussing his new bestseller “On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West” with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers here…
Street Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence by Will Hodgkinson wins the 2025 Penderyn Music Book Prize
March 31, 2025
We’re delighted that a Hamilton Agency client has won the Penderyn Prize for the second consecutive year. Congratulations to Will Hodgkinson for this ultimate underdog story becoming the music book of the year.
Ebury Spotlight to publish the memoir from Dexys Midnight Runners’ frontman Kevin Rowland.
March 23, 2025
Published in July, ‘Bless Me Father’ is the gripping and original memoir from one of the great mavericks and creative geniuses of British music. ‘’This is it – warts and all, mainly my own.”
Joe Boyd, Anna Doble and Will Hodgkinson are long listed for the 2025 Penderyn Music Book Prize
February 8, 2025
‘And the Roots of Rhythm Remain’ by Joe Boyd, ‘Connection is a Song’ by Anna Doble and ‘Street Level Superstar’ by Will Hodgkinson are among the nominees for the prestigious music book prize this year.
Goodbye To Russia by Sarah Rainsford is shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2024
January 21, 2025
Congratulations to Sarah Rainsford, whose memoir has been shortlisted for Best Book by a Non-Parliamentarian, alongside Alexei Navalny’s ‘Patriot’. Winners will be presented with their awards at the Houses of Parliament on 12 February 2025.
Base Notes: Scents of a Life is picked by The Observer as a non-fiction highlight of 2025
January 7, 2025
Adelle Stripe’s olfactory memoir of growing up in the north of the 1980s will be published by White Rabbit in February.
Harper NonFiction and Broadside acquire Douglas Murray’s book about Middle East and the West
November 21, 2024
On Democracies and Death Cults, the new book by bestselling author Douglas Murray, draws on his on-the-ground reporting in Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, taking readers on a harrowing journey through the horrific aftermath of the 7th October attack.
Street Level Superstar by Will Hodgkinson is the number one book of the year in Mojo, Uncut and Rough Trade
November 21, 2024
“Our Book of the Year changes how we think about music memoirs, how they are structured and what they tell us,” say Rough Trade. “It tells us of a particular indefatigable individual who will go further than anyone else.”
Yaba Badoe is nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing
November 21, 2024
Following its shortlisting for The Week Junior’s Best Older Fiction Award and the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award, ‘Man-Man and the Tree of Memories’ has now been nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
John Murray to publish ‘guide to the end times’ from comic Frankie Boyle and and his writing partner Charlie Skelton
October 3, 2024
A Short History of the Apocalypse is a “comprehensive guide to the challenges presented by Armageddon”. The book follows Boyle and Skelton as they debrief time traveller and bon vivant from the late 21st Century, Alonso Lampe.
“Sex, science and unattainable women – this life of Goethe is a masterpiece”
September 25, 2024
A.N. Wilson’s GOETHE: HIS FAUSTIAN LIFE is “wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject,” says Francis Wilson in the Daily Telegraph.
Canongate has snapped up a new history of the British Museum by writer, historian and barrister Dominic Selwood
June 14, 2024
Spanning three centuries, the book is an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes biography of the iconic institution. Selwood has unrestricted access to all its papers and archives to tell the stories of the extraordinary people, discoveries, and objects without shying away from controversies.
Nine Eight signs Street Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence by Will Hodgkinson, the chief rock and pop critic of The Times
June 14, 2024
Described by Jarvis Cocker as ‘essential reading’ and Bobby Gillespie as ‘wonderful’, Street-Level Superstar follows a year in the life of Lawrence, Britain’s most singular musical genius who never hit the big time.
Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde announces new memoir
June 11, 2024
Described by Elton John as “a wonderful book of pop music history” and by Cillian Murphy as “beautiful, insightful and honest”, In One Ear: Cocteau Twins, Ivor and Me will be published by Nine Eight Books on September 12.
Constable sniffs out satirist John Crace’s The Adventures of Herbert Hound
May 28, 2024
Constable has landed The Adventures of Herbert Hound from the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer John Crace. Published on 3rd October 2024, it charts the “picaresque journey” of Crace’s dog Herbie told through the British political landscape.
Faber snaps up new book about Kylie Minogue by the Penderyn Prize-winning writer Michael Cragg
May 23, 2024
“The combination of Kylie, one of the greatest pop stars, and Michael, one of our leading pop writers, is irresistible,” says Faber. Can’t Get You Out of My Head will be published in August 2026.
‘I don’t want to cancel him’: Rose Boyt on confronting the gaze of her father, Lucian Freud
May 13, 2024
Rose Boyt talks to the Observer about her chaotic childhood, writing truthfully about her dad, and the books she read to him on his deathbed. Her memoir Naked Portrait will be published by Picador on May 30th.
MICHAEL CRAGG’S ‘REACH FOR THE STARS’ WINS THE 2024 PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE
March 21, 2024
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.”
WHITE RABBIT SIGNS ‘BASE NOTES’, A SENSORY MEMOIR BY ADELLE STRIPE
March 11, 2024
Base Notes “documents that lost, last tribe that rarely gets served by contemporary literature – the Northern working class…This is the book I have always threatened to write.”
Leamington Books lands Ewan Morrison’s thriller about an AI brain chip
February 20, 2024
Edinburgh independent has landed For Emma, “a tale of family bereavement and revenge with a covert AI experiment and its human cost” by Ewan Morrison, winner the Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year.
Michael Cragg, Audrey Golden and Richard Morton-Jack are Longlisted for the 2024 Penderyn Music Book Prize
February 20, 2024
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.
The Hamilton Agency has five clients in the top twenty Rough Trade Books of the Year list
November 15, 2023
Congratulations to Audrey Golden, Richard Morton Jack, John Robb, Simon Price and Will Sergeant.
Head of Zeus seizes history of communism by broadcaster, journalist and author Paul Mason
September 5, 2023
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.
Echoes, the new memoir by Will Sergeant, is a Sunday Times Bestseller
September 4, 2023
Congratulations to Will Sergeant, the guitarist of Echo and The Bunnymen, who has a second consecutive memoir on the Sunday Times bestseller list.
Mike Brearley’s Memoir Is The Sunday Times Book of the Week
June 13, 2023
“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.”
Professor Arif Ahmed is appointed as the UK’s first free speech tsar
June 5, 2023
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…
John Murray Press lands Morton Jack’s biography of Nick Drake
April 17, 2023
Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack is the only biography of Drake to be written with the blessing and involvement of his sister and estate. It will be published to mark what would have been Drake’s 75th birthday …
Ten Thousand Apologies by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi is shortlisted for The Penderyn Music Book Prize
March 23, 2023
Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi’s Sunday Times bestselling book on the Fat White Family is shortlisted for The Penderyn Music Book Prize, now celebrating its 9th year…
White Rabbit signs Dan Franklin’s in-depth story of ‘the heaviest band in the world’, Electric Wizard
March 17, 2023
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.
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar goes into the Sunday Times bestseller list
February 6, 2023
“The provocative historian fires an intellectual antitank missile into the agonised debate over the impact and legacy of the British Empire,” writes Trevor Phillips in the Sunday Times
Harry Parker is shortlisted for The Barbellion Prize
February 3, 2023
Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker has been shortlisted for The Barbellion Prize, a book prize dedicated to the furtherance of ill and disabled voices in writing.
Picador snaps up “candid, brave and absolutely beautifully written” memoir of Lucian Freud by his daughter, Rose Boyt
January 9, 2023
“Naked Portrait explores Boyt’s experience of sitting for her father’s paintings from childhood until her marriage and the power imbalance in their relationship. When Freud died Boyt discovered her old diary from the years 1989 to 1990, she was shocked…”
The Hamilton Agency has six titles on The Times / Sunday Times Books of The Year List
December 5, 2022
Congratulations to Andrew Doyle, Tom Doyle, Michael Hann, Louise Perry, Keiron Pim and John L Williams…
Stuart Braithwaite, Adelle Stripe, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Martyn Ware and Steven Wilson have been chosen in the Rough Trade Books of the Year list
November 9, 2022
Congratulations to all our authors who made the list this year. The full rundown of the Books of the Year can be read here:
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth by Keiron Pim review – grand tribute to a gifted malcontent
November 2, 2022
“This timely, impeccably researched biography details the restless brilliance of the mournful writer who fled Hitler’s Germany and sought solace in drink…” The Observer
“The controversial author was the original Young Fogey, but presents himself as a badass in this howlingly funny memoir.”
September 3, 2022
AN Wilson’s “torrentially readable” memoir CONFESSIONS is published by Bloomsbury this week. Read John Walsh’s review in The Sunday Times here:
‘An Immigrant’s Love Letter To Love West’ by Konstantin Kisin goes into the Sunday Times bestseller list at No 5
July 26, 2022
“In his excellent new book, comedian and Triggerometry host Konstantin Kisin asks why people in the West so often spit on their luck…” Read Douglas Murray’s 5/5 review in The Telegraph…
Heaven 17 and Human League founder Martyn Ware’s “extraordinary” memoir ‘Electronically Yours Vol 1’ is Announced
July 12, 2022
“Ware gives insights into his austere upbringing in Sheffield, his friendship with former bandmate Phil Oakley, experimentation in the Synth Britannia era and his production career. He also touches poignantly on politics, culture, humour, film, sport and more.”
“It may turn out to be one of the most important feminist books of its time.” Rachel Cooke reviews Louise Perry’s ‘The Case Against The Sexual Revolution’
June 6, 2022
“This is a provocative book. More than once, its author says the unsayable. It makes you think, and it makes you want for a better world. It is urgent and daring and brave.” Read more in The Observer:
Constable signs Andrew Doyle’s fiery exploration of social justice
May 24, 2022
Little, Brown imprint Constable has signed political commentator and satirist Andrew Doyle’s “eloquent yet fiery exploration of our current cultural climate”, The New Puritans.
Nine Eight acquires Will Hodgkinson’s definitive exploration of ’70s singalong pop
May 24, 2022
Nine Eight Book has acquired In Perfect Harmony: Singalong Pop in ’70s Britain by the music critic of The Times Will Hodgkinson, “a truly exceptional and labyrinthine text on a most misunderstood period in British musical history.”
Douglas Murray’s ‘The War On The West’ Goes Straight In at #1 On The Sunday Times Bestseller List – and into the The New York Times Top 10.
May 5, 2022
Listen to Douglas Murray talk about ‘The War on the West’ on The Joe Rogan Experience…
‘The War On The West’ by Douglas Murray goes into the Amazon top 10 in the US, UK and Australia
April 28, 2022
The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers is published today…
“I love the western world. Is that such a thought crime?” The Sunday Times interviews Douglas Murray about ‘The War on the West’.
April 24, 2022
“Ignore the culture warriors, he says. We should take pride in our history and way of life…”
“It’s the mixture of high and low, sacred and profane in this account of literary London in the 1980s that makes it such a joy.” The Times Reviews John Walsh’s ‘Circus of Dreams’.
April 24, 2022
“When the literary world suddenly got sexy: Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Ian ‘Macabre’ McEwan, Angela Carter and the decade when books became showbiz…”
White Rabbit nets memoir from Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite
April 19, 2022
White Rabbit has landed Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai and Misspent Youth from Mogwai band member Stuart Braithwaite. The book documents the Scottish guitarist’s life as a music fan and post-rock legend…
Harry Parker’s ‘Hybrid Humans’ is Book of The Week on BBC Radio 4
March 31, 2022
A gripping, eye-opening account of how technology is altering our understanding of what it means to be human – from the bestselling author of ‘Anatomy of a Soldier’.
Shaun Ryder’s ‘How To Be A Rock Star’ Is Shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year
March 31, 2022
Congratulations to Shaun Ryder for his shortlist nomination at this year’s British Book Awards. You can listen to the audiobook here:
Simon and Schuster signs ‘I’m Not Your Enemy’, BBC Russia correspondent Rainsford’s essential insight into Putin regime
March 5, 2022
Expelled as a ‘security threat’ from Russia last August, Sarah Rainsford “shines a light on the often forgotten heroes of the story: the victims of Vladimir Putin’s regime…”
‘Ten Thousand Apologies’ by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi is a Sunday Times bestseller
March 4, 2022
“Ten Thousand Apologies” has gone straight in at number 6 on The Sunday Times bestseller list. Read Miranda Sawyer’s review in The Observer here:
Steven Wilson’s long-awaited memoir ‘Limited Edition of One’ is announced by Little Brown
February 3, 2022
It will be published on 7th April and is available to pre-order in several editions, including a deluxe version and a super-deluxe “artist edition” of only 125 copies…
Seamas O’Reilly Wins Best Biography at the Irish Book Awards
December 7, 2021
Congratulations to Séamas O’Reilly, whose in-demand memoir ‘Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?’ has won Dubray Biography of the Year at the prestigious An Post Irish Book Awards…
PAUL MASON DISCUSSES HIS NEW BOOK IN THE LAUNCH EDITION OF ROLLING STONE UK
November 17, 2021
Read Ash Sarkar in conversation with Paul Mason about his new book ‘How To Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance’ here:
‘Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?’ is shortlisted for Best Biography at the Irish Book Awards
October 26, 2021
Congratulations to Seamas O’Reilly for his shortlist nomination at the Irish Book Awards. If you enjoyed reading his memoir you can vote for it at:
HarperNonFiction and Broadside Scoop Douglas Murray’s ‘War on the West’
October 18, 2021
“The War on the West will be one of the most widely discussed books of 2022, cementing Murray as one of the world’s foremost political writers.” Read more:
Shaun Ryder’s ‘How To Be A Rock Star’ Goes Into The Top 10 of The Times Bestseller List
October 18, 2021
Read The Guardian’s review of Shaun Ryder’s “candid, brilliant and bizarre” new book:
White Rabbit signs Ten Thousand Apologies, the story of Fat White Family by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi
September 16, 2021
From the mountains of Algeria to the squats of South London via sectarian Northern Ireland, Ten Thousand Apologies is the sordid and thrilling story of the country’s most notorious rock band. More in The Bookseller:
New Cold War Steve Book Announced: Journal Of The Plague Year
September 8, 2021
Following the bestselling Festival of Brexit and A Prat’s Progress, collage superstar Cold War Steve returns with his Journal of the Plague Year. Published by Thames and Hudson in October and on pre-order now…
Seamas O’Reilly is #1 on the Irish bestseller list for a 7th straight week
September 6, 2021
From the Observer columnist and Twitter sensation Seamas O’Reilly, Did You Hear Mammy Died? is a memoir of growing up with ten siblings and a widowed dad in ’90s Derry. Available here:
Fully updated and revised 10th Anniversary edition of Paul Brannigan’s This Is A Call is out now
September 3, 2021
Harper Collins are publishing a new edition Paul Brannigan’s bestselling biography of Dave Grohl, which features two new chapters to bring the story up to date….
Nine Eight to publish Bickerdike’s ‘timely, kaleidoscopic’ Britney biography
September 2, 2021
“After years of being framed as a victim, Britney deserves to be celebrated as the fighter, entrepreneur, inspiration and enigma that she truly is,” says Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, author of Being Britney, just acquired by Nine Eight Books…
How Christa Päffgen Became the Iconic, Mysterious Andy Warhol Superstar Known as Nico
August 18, 2021
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike’s biography of Nico, is published this month by Hachette in the US. Read an excerpt here…
Paul Mason talks to The Observer about his latest book, How to Stop Fascism
August 17, 2021
Paul Mason discusses his own anti-fascist activism in the 1970s and 80s and explores how a new wave of fascism in the 21st century can be prevented from rising…
Seamas O’Reilly’s memoir debuts at number 1 on the Irish Times bestseller list
July 31, 2021
Read the Observer extract of Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?, Seamas O’Reilly’s acclaimed memoir of growing up with ten siblings and a widowed dad in ’90s Derry….
Exclusive Rolling Stone excerpt from Ronnie James Dio’s autobiography
July 29, 2021
Rainbow In The Dark, the long awaited autobiography of heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio, is published this week. Read the Rolling Stone extract….
Bunnyman straight in at number 4 on The Sunday Times bestseller list
July 29, 2021
Will Sergeant’s memoir of growing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and 70s, and finding fame with indie legends Echo and the Bunnyman goes straight in at number four on The Sunday Times bestseller list…
Mick Wall interviews literary agent Matthew Hamilton
July 29, 2021
In the latest episode of the Getcha Rocks Off podcast acclaimed rock journalist and bestselling author Mick Wall discusses music book publishing with literary agent Matthew Hamilton…
Fleet Reveals Cover For Seamas O’Reilly’s Memoir
March 27, 2021
Thrilled to reveal the cover and date for Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?, a memoir of childhood in 90s Derry with a widowed dad, ten siblings, 800 films taped off the telly, and at least one relatively notable IRA bomb.
The legendary rock critic Nick Kent is back with his first novel The Unstable Boys
February 13, 2021
Nick Kent, who is as close as British music journalism ever came to producing a legend, finally stopped writing about rock in 2007. “There was really nothing around that sparked my imagination,” he tells me. “There was no mystery, and …
Paul Mason’s New Book ‘ How To Stop Fascism’ Sold To Allen Lane
October 6, 2020
Allen Lane will publish Paul Mason’s How to Stop Fascism, an “original and challenging history of fascism and guide to resisting it”, in spring 2021….
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray is a Sunday Times Bestseller
September 29, 2020
The new and expanded paperback edition of The Madness of Crowds went into the Sunday Times bestseller list at #5 and has now been in the top 10 for 3 weeks…
Douglas Murray on The Joe Rogan Experience
September 24, 2020
Douglas Murray’s conversation with Joe Rogan about the new edition of The Madness of Crowds has had 2.5 million views on YouTube alone in the last week….
TITANIA McGRATH IN CONVERSATION WITH ANDREW DOYLE
September 9, 2020
This Saturday Andrew Doyle be doing a live event via Zoom at 9pm (UK time). He’ll be joined by Twitter phenomenon Titania McGrath, who will be reading from her new volume My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism.
Graeme Thomson talks to David Hepworth and Mark Ellen about Small Hours, his acclaimed biography of John Martyn
July 27, 2020
Small Hours is out this month and “Martyn thoroughly deserves this painstaking and eloquent biography.” (Observer). Graeme Thomson discusses Martyn’s “lifelong grudges and huge, messy explosion of records” on A Word In Your Ear.
Benjamin Moser Wins The Pultizer Prize for Sontag
May 5, 2020
Congratulations to Benjamin Moser for winning the Pulitzer for his biography of Susan Sontag, “an authoritatively constructed work told with pathos and grace, that captures the writer’s genius and humanity alongside her addictions, sexual ambiguities and volatile enthusiasms.”
PUBLISHED TODAY: WALKING THE GREAT NORTH LINE BY ROBERT TWIGGER
April 23, 2020
Robert Twigger takes a journey along a straight line from Stonehenge to Lindisfarne – via many of our greatest ancient sites – and wild camping along the way. Hear him at the Wigtown Book Festival at 7pm on April 29th.
The Ox: New Book Reveals the Secret Life of Who Bassist John Entwistle
April 23, 2020
The American edition of The Ox: The Authorized Biography of John Entwistle by Paul Rees is published this month. In this Rolling Stone feature Rees and Entwistle’s son Christopher discuss the messy and complex life of the Who’s bassist.
THE MADNESS OF CROWDS NOMINATED FOR AUDIO BOOK OF THE YEAR
April 21, 2020
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray has been nominated as an Audio Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. Narrated by Murray himself the audiobook sold 40,000 copies in four months…
VEXED BY JAMES MUMFORD IS THE OBSERVER BOOK OF THE WEEK
February 23, 2020
John Harris in The Observer calls VEXED “a provocative plea for political nuance” and says James Mumford “demonstrates an admirable ability to zero in on things too often missing from political conversations.”
A FILM ADAPTATION OF COSEY FANNI TUTTI’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS ON THE WAY
February 23, 2020
Directed by Andrew Hulme, the film will draw from the artist’s 2017 memoir Art Sex Music. The biopic won’t shy away from her more controversial acts as a member of the art collective COUM Transmissions and the band Throbbing Gristle.
ADELLE STRIPE SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE
February 6, 2020
Adelle Stripe (second right) pictured with fellow shortlisted authors at this year’s Portico Prize, once described as ‘The Booker of the North’. Adelle was nominated for her novel Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile.
RESISTING WOKENESS – AN EVENING WITH DOUGLAS MURRAY AND ANDREW DOYLE ON TOUR SPRING 2020
December 15, 2019
Having taken two very different approaches to tackling the problem of wokeness, Douglas Murray and Andrew Doyle are now teaming up for a live tour. Each show will feature a conversation, along with an extensive audience Q&A.
AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY OF THE WHO’S JOHN ENTWISTLE TO BE PUBLISHED IN MARCH 2020
December 15, 2019
The first, last and only authorised biography of John Entwistle, the legendary bassist of The Who, will be published in 2020. Written by Paul Rees, THE OX features the three full chapters Entwistle completed of his memoir.
Tim Burgess, the frontman of The Charlatans, discusses his new book ONE TWO ANOTHER on the Rough Trade Podcast
December 8, 2019
Tim Burgess – lyricist, frontman, author, label-owner, Charlatan, discusses ONE TWO ANOTHER, his book of lyrics and the stories behind songs throughout his musical career. Listen back to the special in-store Q&A at Rough Trade East.
Full video of Douglas Murray and Lionel Shriver at Spectator Live
December 8, 2019
Douglas Murray and Lionel Shriver tackle the topic of Identity Politics and talk about Douglas’ Sunday Times bestseller THE MADNESS OF CROWDS. Over 2000 people attended the event.
The first children’s novel by international bestselling author Ben Brooks is out now…
December 8, 2019
THE IMPOSSIBLE BOY, the debut children’s novel by the author of STORIES FOR BOYS WHO DARE TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY, is a funny, big-hearted novel, full of feel-good adventure, and a timely celebration of the power of imagination…
My life in the ethical wild west: John Crace on his three years of Brexit hell
December 8, 2019
John Crace is Guardian’s political sketch writer and his new book DECLINE AND FAIL, the follow up to the bestselling I MAYBOT, is out now from Faber.
Take a sneak peek at ‘Cold War Steve Presents… A Prat’s Progress’ by Coldwar Steve
October 12, 2019
Finished copies of ‘Cold War Steve Presents…A Prat’s Progress’ are in. The sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling ‘The Festival of Brexit’ will be published by Thames and Hudson on October 24th. Click the ‘more’ button for a video preview…
Richard Dawkins calls The Madness of Crowds “beyond brilliant”
October 4, 2019
In his Diary for The Spectator this week Richard Dawkins writes: “[Douglas Murray’s] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone. He mercilessly exposes the hypocrisy and embarrassingly blatant contradictions that run rife through …
The Madness of Crowds is a Sunday Times bestseller
October 4, 2019
In its first week Douglas Murray’s The Madness of Crowds goes into the top ten in the bestseller lists of The Sunday Times, The Times, Wall Street Journal and Audible….
The Sunday Times interview with Douglas Murray: The tyranny of woke thinking has caught us all napping
September 27, 2019
The Stonewall rioters fought for gay rights. Martin Luther King had a dream. But a younger generation without a cause has had to create its own — and that ideology has become a tyrant. Douglas Murray talks to Bryan Appleyard …
A Big New Biography of Susan Sontag Digs to Find the Person Beneath the Icon
September 16, 2019
Benjamin Moser’s “Sontag” explores the life and work of the vaunted writer and public intellectual, including her long-term relationship with the photographer Annie Leibovitz…“Sontag” is a landmark biography, the first major reintroduction of an incomparable literary heavyweight to the public …
Douglas Murray: Why Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream is dead
September 10, 2019
Just as minority groups have achieved once-unimaginable levels of equality in America, our society is more divided than ever on the issue of race. In this excerpt from his new book, “The Madness of Crowds,” bestselling author Douglas Murray shows …
ITV commissions psychological thriller, Too Close, starring Emily Watson
September 10, 2019
ITV commissions psychological thriller, Too Close, starring Emily Watson and produced by Snowed-In Productions “How could a woman do what she did? I’m going to get inside that head of hers. She’s going to tell me everything. No games.” ITV’s …
The Death of Truth? Slavoj Žižek and Paul Mason in discussion
September 9, 2019
“Join us for what promises to be a fascinating evening, as renowned Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and award-winning writer, broadcaster, and film-maker Paul Mason discuss ‘the death of truth?’ and Žižek’s new book SEX AND THE FAILED ABSOLUTE. Both speakers …