💛From the first couple of paragraphs I was hooked by the evocative scene-setting and immediate inciting incident -by page 2, I was crying. GOLDEN YES #BathNovelAward24

All votes are now in so that really *is* our last selection of #BathNovelAward24 comments. Back tonight at 19:00 BST with the longlist announcement. Good luck all!

🎉Sounding the newly agented klaxon - huge congrats to Bath Children’s Novel Award listee Mel Stephenson

The @BathNovelAwards was my first step towards getting an agent and a publishing deal. Wishing the very best of luck to longlisted authors - you’re in excellent hands x

I’m going to be on TV! Thank you so much to Amanda Ross and the Between The Covers team, Cathryn Summerhayes Orion Publishing Curtis Brown Books and everyone who has supported this book. I’m so incredibly grateful ❤️

IT’S PUBLICATION DAY! Thank you to everyone who has waited patiently for me, who has supported me, who has helped me tell this story, and especially to Orion Publishing who took a chance, and have worked tirelessly ever since. We did it ❤️ Signed copies: geni.us/AllTheColoursO…

Bookmail day is always a good day, but it’s extra special when it’s your own book 🧡 📖 These beauties will be heading out with me on my visits to bookshops! Very excited to share #Nephthys with local booksellers!! 🧡 #debut2025 #histfic #Egyptology #mythology #VictorianGothic

It’s my first ever Sunday Times Bestseller!! I love you Orion Publishing Cathryn Summerhayes Curtis Brown Books and thank you to everyone who has supported this story. I’m a Sunday Times bestselling author!!

Last day to enter our LORD OF THE EMPTY ISLES giveaway!

🎉🎉🎉Sounding the newly agented klaxon for #BNAkids 2023 listee Cate Haynes!

Happy book birthday Melissa Welliver 🎉 The Undying Tower is OUT NOW! Order your copy: bit.ly/4bLcyTW

🎉AND SO I ROAR is GO! Wishing Abi Daré the very happiest of publication days for the sequel to her BNA2018 winning debut THE GIRL WITH THE LOUDING VOICE Adunni and Ms Tia are back, now forced to confront their pasts and find the courage to roar for themselves

🎉Congratulations to Bath Novel Awards alum Claire McCauley on winning the prestigious Joan Hessayon Award with The Wedding Hitch Romantic Novelists' Association

So exciting to see the early praise coming in for NEPHTHYS by Rachel Louise Driscoll, out in FEB 2025 🧡

I'm beyond thrilled to say that A SPY LIKE ME is a finalist for The McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year! 🎉 A SPY LIKE ME is the first Bond continuation novel to appear on a prize list, something I'm so proud to contribute to Ian Fleming 😊🍸

10 weeks on the NYT best seller list! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me/this book. I really really love you for it ♥️

Curtis Brown agent Enrichetta Frezzato will judge this year’s £5,000 Bath Children’s Novel Award for emerging authors 👇 thebookseller.com/news/frezzato-…

We could not be more excited to welcome Enrichetta Frezzato of Curtis Brown Books as Bath Children's Novel Award judge. Submissions are open now until Nov 30th for YA MG CB & PBT, with the £5,000 winner to be announced in Feb thebookseller.com/news/frezzato-…

'Write what you want to write, what feels most urgent to you.' Literary agent and 2024 Children's Novel Award judge Enrichetta Frezzato shares her submission tips👇 bathnovelaward.co.uk/bath-childrens…