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C. J. Sansom’s TOMBLAND has been shortlisted at The British Book Awards 2019 for Fiction Book of the Year and Marketing Strategy of the Year. The British Book Awards – otherwise known as the Nibbies – is judged by ‘leading book trade figures’ and has celebrated ‘the very best of the book trade for nigh on 30 years’. TOMBLAND is the bestselling seventh instalment of Sansom’s Shardlake series and was published by Mantle on 18 October 2018. Matthew Shardlake is brought to Norwich in pursuit of a murder case, where he becomes caught up in Kett’s Rebellion of 1549. The winners will be announced at the Grosvenor House Hotel on 13th May.

Lucinda Coxon has been shortlisted by the Writers' Guild Awards for the Best Screenplay award for her adaptation of Sarah Waters' mesmerising ghost story The Little Stranger. The Writers' Guild Awards will be presented by writer and actor Joanna Scanlan on Monday 14th of January in a special ceremony to mark the union’s 60th anniversary at the Royal College of Physicians in central London. The Little Stranger was published in 2009 by Virago, and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Good Reads Choice Awards.

Greene & Heaton is happy to introduce The Greene Door Project, which is an open submissions competition for writers from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. For an initial six-week period, from the 17th of September until the 31st of October 2018, the project will be open for writers from BAME backgrounds writing in any genre (please note that we do not accept screenplays). Every submission will be read by at least one of our agents, and after the submission period, the two authors whose work we believe has the most promise will be given feedback and an opportunity to discuss their work with one of our agents. The aim of The Greene Door Project is to ensure that the work of writers from under-represented backgrounds is considered, and to encourage authors from all backgrounds to submit their work to us. This is in addition to our usual submission process, in which we actively seek submissions from people of all backgrounds. All submissions should be at least 1.5 line spaced with page numbers and clearly marked with your name and contact details on the title page. Please attach a synopsis and the first three chapters (or about fifty pages) to a covering email and send it to greenedoor@greeneheaton.co.uk, clearly stating ‘The Greene Door Project’ in the subject line. Please note that submissions for the Project will only be valid if these guidelines are followed; any submissions for the Project that are sent to our regular submissions email will not be considered in the competition but will still be considered according to our usual submission process. For any enquiries about the Project, please email greenedoor@greeneheaton.co.uk.

Sarah Waters' ghostly gothic novel The Little Stranger is brought to life in a new film starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson and Charlotte Rampling. Join author Sarah Waters and Oscar nominated director Lenny Abrahamson at a special preview of The Little Stranger followed by a Q&A on Friday 14th September at the Curzon Mayfair. Book your tickets now! #WhoIsTheLittleStranger

"A slow-building shiver of a movie." - Los Angeles Times "The twisting and cracking of the British class system is always fascinating to observe, and 'The Little Stranger' traces the details of its chosen moment of social change with precision and subtlety." - The New York Times "Potent & provocative." - The New York Times "Charlotte Rampling is reliably superb." - Rolling Stone "Abrahamson uses shivery suspense and a keen sense of character to craft 'The Little Stranger' into a hypnotic and haunting tale. It's spellbinding." - Rolling Stone "Ruth Wilson's Caroline is the beating heart of the film and she is superb." - The Guardian "Adult audiences looking past the gothic trappings will be rewarded by a heritage drama as delicate as the cobwebs in its corners." - Variety "Deliciously macabre." - The Washington Post The Little Stranger is in UK cinemas on the 21st of September.

Based on Sarah Waters’ best-selling novel, THE LITTLE STRANGER is Oscar-nominated director Lenny Abrahamson’s first film since his acclaimed movie, Room. THE LITTLE STRANGER tells the story of Dr Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how disturbingly, the family’s story is about to become entwined with his own. Here's a glimpse behind the scenes of the darkly mysterious drama The Little Stranger, featuring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Charlotte Rampling, and Will Poulter. In UK cinemas on the 21st of September. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eimyd2Fews&feature=youtu.be

Joanna Nadin's THE QUEEN OF BLOODY EVERYTHING has been shortlisted for The Big Book Awards 2018, under the Cosmopolitan Must Reads category. The Big Book Awards aims to discover the best new fiction and non-fiction titles in UK publishing. The awards incorporate nine Hearst brands, including Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Prima, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Elle, Red, Women’s Health and Men’s Health, with each brand being assigned a relevant category. The shortlist reveals the best reads of the year as reviewed by Hearst UK readers and Editors. The final winners will be announced at a celebratory event in Summer 2018.

Sarah Waters’ best-selling novel, The Little Stranger, has been adapted for film, directed by Oscar nominee Lenny Abrahamson. THE LITTLE STRANGER tells the story of Dr. Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how disturbingly, the family's story is about to become entwined with his own. Release dates to be confirmed soon. Watch the trailer now!

Michael Booth's THE MEANING OF RICE (Jonathan Cape, 2017) has been shortlisted for the 2018 Guild of Food Writers Award in the 'Food and Travel' category. In his thoroughly researched book, Michael Booth and his family embark on an epic journey the length of Japan to explore its dazzling food culture. They find a country much altered since their previous visit ten years earlier (which resulted in the award-winning international bestseller Sushi and Beyond). The awards are the most prestigious in food writing and broadcasting and recognise outstanding achievement in areas where food writers work and have influence. They are awarded annually and judged entirely by professional food writers, editors and broadcasters. The winners will be announced on Monday 18th of June at Opera Holland Park.

Pan Macmillan has announced that the Number One best-selling author C. J. Sansom will publish his eagerly awaited novel TOMBLAND in October this year. The book is the seventh of the Shardlake series and follows LAMENTATION. TOMBLAND involves Matthew Shardlake in a new murder case on behalf of the Lady Elizabeth, which takes him to Norwich where he finds himself caught up in the midst of Kett’s rebellion, the huge and dramatic peasant revolt of 1549. TOMBLAND will be available on October 18th, 2018.

Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, and judged by Mary Berry, Dan Doherty and Chris Bavin, BBC One’s Britain’s Best Home Cook puts the nation’s best home cooks to the test, and celebrates the delicious food being cooked in households all over the UK. The contestants will be asked to make their own version of dishes that ‘define modern British home cooking’ with an emphasis on individual flair. The judges will be looking for dishes that are special takes on well-loved classics, and that define a new benchmark of excellence. The challenges push the contestants to prove their technical abilities, resourcefulness and creativity as they fight for the title of Britain’s Best Cook. The series features three episodes, the first of which airs on Thursday 3rd of May 2018 at 8pm on BBC One, and will be available afterwards on iPlayer. The official companion cookbook, Britain’s Best Home Cook (BBC Books, 2018), with a foreword by Claudia Winkleman and recipes by Jordan Bourke is out now.

In his new documentary, ‘Britain’s Fat Fight’, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall reveals that we are losing an uphill battle with supermarkets and restaurants who are locked in fierce competition, which drives a trend towards increasingly unhealthy, sugary and fast foods. This is causing a health crisis, which Hugh believes will leave us ‘a nation of the stumbling sick’. In this series, Hugh urges food producers and restaurants to be more transparent about what they are selling and pushes the government to urgently tackle the health crisis. Hugh also challenges the people of Newcastle to lose 100,000lbs in a year. In this first instalment Hugh asks a group of seven-year-olds to do a supermarket shop without their parents and he is led directly to the cereal aisle to pick from brightly coloured and highly sugared breakfast options. He also looks at how location can affect access to healthy foods, and how we are being increasingly tempted by sugary snacks on-the-go. The first episode airs on BBC One at 21:00 on Wednesday 25th April and will be available on iPlayer afterwards. It will be followed by three further instalments at the same time over the coming weeks. Image: ANDREW HAYES-WATKINS

TV rights have been optioned to Eleven Film. Lucy Atkins is represented for this deal by Jane Villiers at Sayle Screen Inc., working with Lucy's literary agent Judith Murray at Greene & Heaton. THE NIGHT VISITOR is to be published in paperback by Quercus on 3 May. Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children and a talented husband. But as she stands before a crowd at the launch of her new bestseller, she can barely pretend to smile. Her life has spiralled into deceit and if the truth comes out, she will lose everything. Only one person knows what Olivia has done: Vivian Tester, a housekeeper, who is Olivia's unofficial research assistant. But Vivian has secrets of her own. . . Praise for The Night Visitor and Lucy Atkins: ‘A fascinating, brilliant, creepy, intelligent novel’ Good Housekeeping ‘The tension is immediate and unrelenting…deceptive on every level, a gripping, Rendellesque read’ Mick Herron 'A complex, creepy and insidious novel' The Guardian 'Sinister, utterly compulsive . . . will keep your pulse racing until its dramatic denouement' Red Magazine 'An absolute cracker . . . Fantastic!' Sunday Mirror 'This atmospheric, propulsive novel creeps up on you like footsteps in the dead of night . . . a tingling layer of gothic suspense' Metro 'Fabulously dark' Woman & Home 'The rich characterisation makes for an alarmingly plausible riches-to-rags tale' Sunday Times 'Enjoyably creepy' Sunday Express 'Enthralling, creepy and endlessly twisty.' Heat 'A tense psychological thriller . . . keeps you gripped from the very first page.' Psychologies 'Such a sophisticated, layered read, I absolutely revelled in it. A wonderful, wonderful book. The plotting is superb but the real triumph is the characterisation. The moment I finished, I wanted to read it all over again' Clare Mackintosh 'Elegant, clever, beautifully written. Lucy Atkins is, quite frankly, a genius' Joanna Cannon 'Horribly, horribly compulsive. Brilliant' Fiona Barton 'Wonderfully creepy, in that clever way that is tied in with character, as much as plot and setting . . . ingenious' Sabine Durrant 'One of the most vivid, memorable and menacing characters I've ever read . . . Readers who enjoyed Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller will adore it' C.L. Taylor 'It put me in mind of Misery, and Rebecca. Splendidly tense, creepy and enjoyable' Sarah Hilary

Joseph Knox's SIRENS (Transworld, 2017) has been longlisted for the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. SIRENS, which Val McDermid called 'a powerhouse of noir', follows the career of the disgraced detective Aidan Waits as he’s forced into an undercover operation. It was followed in March 2018 by THE SMILING MAN, the second instalment of the Aidan Waits series. The prize's shortlist will be revealed on 27th May, and the winner will be announced on 19th July at the opening night of the 16th Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate. A public vote, which opens on 1st July and closes on 14th July, will help select the winner alongside a panel of judges.