Three nominations for CWA Daggers
The CWA announced the first set of shortlists for its prestigious Dagger awards over the weekend, and we’re thrilled to announce that MacLehose Press received three nominations. In the International...
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Design Competition Shortlist!
The shortlist for our MacLehose Press Fifth Anniversary Design Competition was announced this morning as part of the Bookseller Design Seminar at the Purcell Room on the South Bank. The fifteen...
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A Naked Singularity wins prize
We’re thrilled to announce that our forthcoming title, A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava, has been awarded the prestigious PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. The prize, worth $25,000, is awarded...
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MacLehose Press Design Competition – The Winners
The five winners of the MacLehose Press Design Competition were at long last announced at an event in the Gallery at Foyles Bookshop on Charing Cross Road. Author and former advertising executive David...
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Olivier – Philip Ziegler tour details
Philip Ziegler’s Olivier has not been short of praise since it’s publication last month. Described as “compelling” by The Guardian, “splendid” by The Economist, “brilliant” by the Mail on Sunday,...
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Olivier by Philip Ziegler – a Radio 4 Book of the Week
“As the National Theatre celebrates its 50th anniversary, a new biography based on previously unseen letters and diaries of Laurence Olivier tells the story of the legendary actor as he developed his...
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Congratulations Pierre Lemaitre!
As discerning international booklovers may already have seen, we’re thrilled to announce that Pierre Lemaitre has won the Prix Goncourt in France, for his latest novel Au revoir là-haut, which we will...
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Look Who’s Conquered Europe Again
Following its breathtaking success in Germany (1.3 million copies sold, and still counting!), Timur Vermes’s utterly unique debut novel Look Who’s Back has made far shorter work of conquering Europe...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 1 – Alex
It’s that time of year. The nights have drawn in, the shops are heaving, and everyone with a blog to fill is coming up with their books (or songs. Or films. Or shop assistants. Or . . .) of the year....
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 2 – The Expo Files
The second day of Christmas. We take it you’ve already bought Alex for all the family after yesterday’s post – well, all the family that won’t get nightmares . . . Now, let Mark explain why an...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 4 – Bed of Nails
The fourth day of Christmas. We’ve given you thrills. We’ve given you passion. We’ve given you one of the most important books of the year. But now for something that combines all three – a crime...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 5 – Russian Stories
For our fifth book of Christmas, a sub-genre that has been described as “commercial double suicide”: short fiction in translation. But this off-beat collection of Russian short stories, gathered and...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 6 – An Armenian Sketchbook
The sixth day of Christmas brings us a book that our social media followers highlighted as one of their favourites: a charming travelogue from one of the great authors of the twentieth century....
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 7 – The Dark Angel
As well as being our seventh choice for you in this series, this next book is our last book to be published in 2013 – if you like the sound of brilliant quirky French crime fiction, buy it now here!...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 8 – Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything
Still searching for the perfect MacLehose gift? Kathryn, an editor from the Quercus fiction list, tells us why this debut coming-of-age novel is her MacLehose pick of the year. SOMEDAY WE’LL TELL EACH...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 9 – The Book of Legendary Lands
We’re into the final stretch of our Christmas picks. You can be letting us know in the comments what your thoughts are, but in the meantime, how’s this for a sumptuous masterpiece from one of the...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 10 – An Englishman in Madrid
Our tenth Christmas pick is a multi-award-winning Spanish novel that has been described as a “funny, gripping and perfectly balanced blend of P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene”. Which is...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 11 – A Naked Singularity
We’re approaching the end of our Books of the Year, but we’ve saved two of the best until last. First up, a wonderful debut novel that we’re all crazy about: Quercus editor Katie Gordon explains why A...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 12 – Olivier
It’s our final day of Christmas, and finally we come to the book that everyone seems to agree is a Book of the Year. The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and the Sunday Times have all praised to the...
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The 4th book in Larsson’s Millennium series
Quercus Publishing is to publish fourth book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series…. Quercus Publishing and MacLehose Press are delighted to announce the acquisition of a new book in Stieg Larsson’s...
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