- Abi Elphinstone's The Snow Dragon was included in the Daily Mail's Best Children's Books of the Year and The Observer's Best Children's Books of 2019, and was also one of Waterstones Piccadilly's Top 4 bestselling children's books last week
- The Snow Dragon and Samantha Baines' Harriet Versus the Galaxy were included in iNews' Children's Books of the Year
- Out of the Woods, the debut non-fiction book from Luke Turner is also one of iNews' Books of the Year
Congratulations all!

Do you fancy winning yourself a copy of Stephen Moss' The Twelve Birds of Christmas plus a festive hamper from Fortnum and Mason? Thought you did.
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Chinese rights for the first in Adam Hamdy's Pendululm series have been sold to Spring International. Pendulum's publishers, Headline, who own World Rights to the title, negotiated the deal and we're pleased as punch. |

The Cormorant was Stephen's first novel, published in 1986, and to critical acclaim, winning the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award and earning comparisons to the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Delve in to these fantastic articles to discover some little-known facts about the five-time Oscar winning film.