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Two Lightning titles shortlisted for regional awards
Novels by George Harrison and Jim Cockin are both finalists for the East Anglian Book Awards Read more...
Sea Defences wins silver in prize dominated by Eye group titles
Four out of the six titles on the shortlist for the New Angle Prize are published by Eye Books or its new sister company Wilton Square Read more...
Eye to publish radio tie-in memoir of ‘door-to-door poet’
Eye is to publish the memoir of ‘door-to-door poet’ Rowan McCabe in a direct tie-in with a BBC Radio 4 programme Read more...
Eye Books sets up new company to provide home for Unbound authors
Will Atkinson, the managing director of Eye Books, has set up a new publishing company, Wilton Square, in order initially to ‘provide a safe and secure home’ for Unbound authors Read more...
Eye to publish Unbound’s prize-winning The Low Road in paperback
Eye has acquired paperback and ebook rights to The Low Road, the debut novel by Katharine Quarmby, after its original publisher got into financial difficulties Read more...
Sea Defences shortlisted for New Angle Prize
Sea Defences shortlisted for New Angle Prize
Hilary Taylor’s Sea Defences, which we published in January 2023, has been shortlisted for the New Angle Prize for Literature, the £3,000 biennial award for a book of literary merit set in... Read more...
Eye acquires expat memoir of life in ‘the world’s happiest country’
As Finland is again named the world’s happiest country, Eye acquires rights to a personal account of life in the Nordic nation by longtime resident Tim Bird Read more...
Nicola May works out TV deal for Working It Out
The bestselling novelist Nicola May has signed an option agreement with the production company Mermaid Pictures with a view to adapting her debut novel Working It Out for television. First published in 2011, the romantic comedy follows the fortunes of Ruby Matthews who, after redundancy, launches a mission to find the ideal job by trying twelve different occupations in twelve months. Lightning, the fiction imprint of Eye Books, published a paperback edition in 2021. Eighteen bestsellers May is the author of eighteen romantic comedies, all of which have appeared in the bestseller... Read more...
Former head of Atlantic Books joins Eye as publisher and MD
Will Atkinson, the former head of Atlantic Books, has joined Eye Books as its publisher and managing director Read more...
Local longlisted for the Wainwright Prize
Alastair Humphreys’ account of exploring the unprepossessing landscape around his own home is listed for the UK’s premier nature-writing prize Read more...
Makereti’s ‘James Poneke’ named as joint-best NZ book of the century
Tina Makereti’s novel The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke tied in joint first place in a poll of New Zealand literary experts Read more...
Local shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize
Alastair Humphreys’ environmentally engaged, endlessly engrossing account of his weekly close-to-home exploration is now on the shortlist for the UK’s premier nature-writing prize Read more...