Hamish Hamilton News
RSS feedThere but for the James Tait Black Prize! 14 May 2012
We are delighted to announce that Ali Smith’s There but for the has been shortlisted for the prestigious James Tait Black Prize.
On a shortlist of three, the winner will be announced as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday August 25th.
Go, Ali!
Big in Wales! 11 May 2012
We are happy to see two HH authors on the shortlists for Wales Book of the Year.
Joe Dunthorne for Fiction
and Iain Sinclair for Creative Non-Fiction.
The Welsh half of our Publishing Director is especially proud. Read more here.
Always Looking 4 May 2012
We are delighted to be joining Knopf in publishing this last collection of Updike’s writing on art.
Joe Launches Five Dials 23 3 May 2012
Tales of the Thames 30 April 2012
The literary event, Tales of the Thames: Writers’ Talks at Somerset House, will be taking place on Saturday 19 May.
This one-off event will bring together a host of writers and historians ahead of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. HH author Ian Sinclair will close the event with a performance piece, accompanied by the vocalist MacGillivray.
For more details, click here.
Truman Capote's Typewriter 30 April 2012
Yet further proof that anything and everything can turn up on eBay. TC’s Smith Corona has just sold there for $8,281, perhaps to the same person who bought his house, also recently up for grabs.
Advance Old Ways 27 April 2012
Editor and publicist excited to see the first finished copy of Robert Macfarlane’s The Old Ways this morning.
Nieuws 25 April 2012
Good news from the Netherlands: Paul Murray’s wonderful Skippy Dies has won this year’s Dioraphte Jongerenliteratuur Prijs.
Kelman plus Eggleston 2 April 2012
A big thanks to our favourite American photographer, William Eggleston, for permission to use this image on the front of James Kelman’s extraordinary new novel, coming from HH in August:
Rawi Hage in Hong Kong 30 March 2012
If you happen to be in Hong Kong next month, go along to the Asia Society to see HH author Rawi Hage in an event with Madeleine Thein.
Both authors will read from their latest books, discuss how their heritage influences their creative journey, how they inspire each other, and the trajectory for Asian writers in the international literary scene. The even will be moderated by Xu Xi, Writer-in-Residence and Programme Leader of the MFA in Creative Writing, City University of Hong Kong.
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