MANCUNIA, the latest poetry collection by Michael Symmons Roberts , has been longlisted for the Portico Prize 2019! Once described as ‘the Booker of the North’, The Portico Prize awards £10,000 to the book that best evokes the spirit of the North of England. The biennial prize is the UK’s only award of its kind, and accepts submissions across all formats including fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

We’re delighted to announce that Adam Mars-Jones has won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Box Hill , a strangely tragic love story between two men set in the gay biker community during the late 1970s. Initially made possible by an Arts Council grant in 2017, the prize looks for novels which explore and expand the possibilities of the form, which are innovative and imaginative in style, which tackle subjects and themes relevant to the world we live in. Adam Mars-Jones receives a £3,000 prize in the form of an advance against publication, and Box Hill will be published in Fitzcarraldo Editions’ fiction list in March 2020.

Alain Claude Sulzer 's UNHALTBARE ZUSTÄNDE (INTOLERABLE CONDITIONS) is nominated for the Schweizer Buchpreis (Swiss Book Prize) 2019! Published to rave reviews, the novel shot into the bestseller list shortly after publication in German last month.

We are delighted that LA FRACTURE (Editions Tristram) - the French edition of Nina Allan 's novel THE RIFT (Titan Books) - has been longlisted for both the Prix Médicis étranger and the Prix Femina étranger 2019! The former was established in 1958 to recognise authors ‘whose fame does not...

We are thrilled that this brilliant play “Three Sisters” by Julia Pascal will open the exciting festival “Taking The Stage- Women in the Performing Arts” at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes tonight at 7pm. The festival is being launched by Poppy Corbett (playwright and theatre director) and there will...

Rachel O’Riordan has made her directorial debut as Artistic Director of the Lyric with this brilliant adaptation of Henrick Ibsen's A Doll's House , written by Tanika Gupta.

Tanika Gupta reimagines Ibsen’s classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring...

It’s confirmed, Brassic is Sky’s biggest original comedy series launch for over 7 years, with 1.7 million viewers watching the first episode!

The series was written and co-created by Danny Brocklehurst and stars UA clients Michelle Keegan , Debbie Rush , Aaron Heffernan , Anna Acton and Nikhil Parmar...

Bartholomew Fair is showing at Shakespeare’s Globe until 12 th October at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. It is directed by Blanche McIntyre with lighting consultant Prema Mehta , designer Ti Green and starring Richard Katz .

First staged in 1614, Ben Jonson’s script is a raucous comedy set in...

As the limited run kicks off tonight at the Wyndham Theatre, we are celebrating FLEABAG and the team that gave it to us, especially our clients Vicky Jones and Elliot Griggs . Back in 2013, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Vicky Jones and Francesca Moody (DryWrite) produced the original show in Soho Theatre....

The multi-award winning novelist and screenwriter has written directly for stage for the second time, described as ‘Boyd at his best’. After a simple argument between married copy Meredith and Pip, their relationship continues to unravel until their marriage is at breaking point. Darkly funny and poignant, the play exposes...