‘Grandmothers’ by Salley Vickers was published by Penguin on 3rd September 2020.

It is a beautifully observed, tender and elegiac new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian.

‘A beautifully written and moving celebration of this love, too often unsung, that reaches out across the generations. It should be read by all grannies’ The Times

‘A fond  portrait of what it is to love a child, both yours and not… a tonic for the overlooked modern grandmother’ Sunday Times

Audible, the leading provider of audio storytelling has joined forces with The Sunday Times to sponsor The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2019 as it enters its tenth year.  The world’s richest and most prestigious prize for an English-language single short story, the Award has attracted some of the finest literary talent from around the world in the decade since it was inaugurated.

In a ground-breaking agreement, Audible will produce an audio anthology of the stories shortlisted in 2019, making the stories available in audio for the first time.

For full details of the Award visit: www.shortstoryaward.co.uk

Coronet to publish America Before – the final book in Graham Hancock’s bestselling non-fiction trilogy

Graham Hancock’s long-awaited culmination of his non-fiction work will be published on April 2nd –over twenty years after the publication of the multi-million selling Fingerprints of the Gods and four years after the Sunday Times bestseller Magicians of the Gods. 

In America Before, Hancock draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. He presents a brand-new investigation into the prehistory of the Americas, referencing scientific proof of a long-lost ancient civilisation which began in the Ice Age in the so-called ‘New World’ and then spread around the earth, leaving its traces in ancient monuments such as the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge and in the genetic makeup of peoples living as far away as Australia.

Day of the Accident by Nuala Ellwood published by Penguin Books

Within seconds of waking from a ten-week coma, Maggie Allan’s life is torn apart when she learns that her ten-year-old daughter is dead.  So begins this haunting tale of loss, betrayal and the lengths a woman will go to protect her loved ones and beat her demons.  Author Nuala Ellwood was chosen as one of the Observer‘s New Faces of Fiction for her debut My Sister’s Bones.  She teaches Creative Writing at York St John University.

“A gripping page turner” BELLA

“Haunting thriller … A worthy successor to Ellwood’s debut My Sister’s Bones” DAILY EXPRESS

‘The novelistic equivalent to LOVE, ACTUALLY’ (The Bookseller) Translation rights sold in 21 territories

Josie Silver’s forthcoming novel One Day in December (published October 18th 2018, Penguin paperback) has sold in 21 territories to date, been compared to the Christmas movie classic Love Actually and has an ever-growing number of readers falling in love with it – including Marian Keyes.  It’s a story set over ten years, following three central characters through love, heartbreak and friendship.

The sinister new novel from the No 1 bestselling author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick, Lying in Wait

Advance praise is pouring in for Liz Nugent’s new novel Skin Deep, to be published in Penguin paperback November 15th 2018:

“Perfect for those who like their escapism on the darker side” Ian Rankin

“Monumentally good. Liz Nugent is a beautiful writer and among the very best storytellers in the world” Donal Ryan

“The finest psychological thriller writer currently at work – no one gets under the skin of monstrous characters like she does” Tammy Cohen

“I loved, loved, loved Skin Deep – the compassion of it, the beauty of the language, how glamour and horror intersect, how the tension twists tighter and tighter and is brilliantly done” Marian Keyes

“Dazzling … chilling, mesmerising and, ultimately, devastating. Pure storytelling genius” Mark Edwards

“Wow! I am lost in admiration – Liz Nugent’s storytelling is a wonderful feat of imagination, totally gripping, with a fascinating character at its heart” Sabine Durrant

“A triumph, from first page to last!” Sarah Hilary

“Her darkest book yet – a compelling one-sitting read” Sinéad Crowley

“Dark, brutal and brilliant” Colette McBeth

“Utterly gripping, fast paced, and featuring my favourite sociopathic female character since Lady Macbeth” Louise O’Neill

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist returns with a stunning collection of more than two hundred of her photographs from across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa from the last twenty years.

Lynsey Addario’s new book OF LOVE & WAR (publishing 15th November 2018) also features revelatory essays from esteemed writers such as Dexter Filkins, Aryn Baker, and Lydia Polgreen, and public figures such as Christy Turlington.

Diana’s private tape recordings published for the first time in a fully revised biography

In his 25th anniversary edition of Diana:Her Story – In Her Own Words, first published to huge public controversy and accusations of fabrication, Andrew Morton is able to shed light on Diana’s personal, private experiences as a troubled member of the Royal family. The books includes transcripts of detailed tape interviews in which she describes all aspects of her life, including her ten-year struggle with bulimia and her husband Charles’ affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles.

Morton describes the interviews, conducted secretly and through a proxy, as Diana’s way of getting her voice – and her side of the story of their failing marriage – heard, at once searingly sad and monumentally brave. “It is a chance for my own self to surface a little rather than be lost in the system,” she wrote to her father during the interview process. “I rather see it as a lifebelt against being drowned and it is terribly important to me.”

For more details visit the campaign page here.

The Pool is reading Anne Helen Peterson’s unapologetic new book

Anne Helen Peterson’s Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud has been featured by The Pool on their weekly reading list. They call her look at 21st century women under the pressures of press scrutiny “[a] wonderful bolshy ode to women who don’t know their place and certainly have no plans to stay in it.”

See the campaign page for more information.