The Ruppin Agency announces new translation rights partnership with the Marsh Agency
The Ruppin Agency has today announced a new partnership with the Marsh Agency, to handle its translation rights. Founded in 2017 by former bookseller Jonathan Ruppin, the recently-launched agency will represent both fiction and non-fiction, with a particular focus on discovering voices underrepresented in British publishing.
Dulwich Literary Festival reports record ticket sales as it returns for fourth year
Described by Time Out as “one of the key events in the London literary calendar,” the local festival drew a thousand-strong crowd for events taking place throughout November featuring Ali Smith, Alan Hollinghurst, Henry Blofeld, Kate Pankhurst and Robert Peston.
Birkbeck makes nationwide call for writers for 15th annual short-story anthology
Birkbeck, University of London, is calling for submissions for its 15th annual short-story anthology, The Mechanics’ Institute Review, published in September 2018.
Ruby Wax announced as new president of Relate
24% of Relate’s clients say that mental health is an issue in their relationship
MONOCLE’s Travel Top 50 2017/18 Announced - From London hot spots to aviation's high-fliers
From cocktails in London to breakfast in Tokyo and the airline with the most handsome cabin crew, the MONOCLE Travel Top 50 is a must-have guide to aviation's high-fliers, rail carriages with class, masterful hoteliers and service stars worth knowing the world over.
BRITISH HISTORIAN DANIEL BEER WINS US$75,000 INTERNATIONAL CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE
Ground-breaking study of Siberian exile under the Tsars receives the jury’s unanimous vote: The international Cundill History Prize announced 16 November the British historian Daniel Beer as the 2017 winner of the US$75,000 prize – the richest in non-fiction for a single work in English..
UK slips to lowest ever ranking in MONOCLE’s annual Soft Power Survey - but the arts keep it afloat
The Brexit referendum and the political garble that ensued have pushed the UK to its lowest ever ranking in an annual survey of how nations use their gentler side to have an impact in the world.
Zadok Ben-David: Human Nature launched at the artist’s studio
The first comprehensive monograph of Zadok Ben-David’s work, Human Nature spans twenty years and includes four major installations, plus outdoor works from one of the world’s most respected contemporary sculptors.
Taste by Stephen Bayley published today
From the authority on art and style comes a ground-breaking study on taste which examines culture in both its success and excess
A Spine Tingling Read for Halloween - published today
HOUSE OF SPINES by Michael J. Malone, published today 31st October by Orenda Books, £8.99 in paperback original.