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Novels by George Harrison and Jim Cockin are both finalists for the East Anglian Book Awards

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

Eye is to publish the memoir of ‘door-to-door poet’ Rowan McCabe in a direct tie-in with a BBC Radio 4 programme

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

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

Hilary Taylor’s novel Sea Defences, previously shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize, is now also on the shortlist for the New Angle Prize

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

The bestselling novelist Nicola May has signed an option agreement with a production company to adapt her debut novel for the small screen

Will Atkinson, the former head of Atlantic Books, has joined Eye Books as its publisher and managing director

Tina Makereti’s novel The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke tied in joint first place in a poll of New Zealand literary experts

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

Alastair Humphreys’ account of exploring the unprepossessing landscape around his own home is listed for the UK’s premier nature-writing prize

Hilary Taylor’s lyrical Broadchurch-style tale set on the North Norfolk coast is listed for the prestigious prize for debut novelists over the age of 60

Elinor Lipman’s Ms Demeanor is a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor – the premier US award for comic writing

Alastair Humphreys’ fictionalised children’s version of his own Atlantic crossing is on a shortlist of five

Paul Bassett Davies’ Dead Writers in Rehab imagines seven literary greats in drug rehab, including the author of The Woman in White in his bicentenary year