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September 26, 2025
Sea Defences wins silver in prize dominated by Eye group titles
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
August 7, 2025
Eye to publish radio tie-in memoir of ‘door-to-door poet’
Eye is to publish the memoir of ‘door-to-door poet’ Rowan McCabe in a direct tie-in with a BBC Radio 4 programme
August 1, 2025
Eye Books sets up new company to provide home for Unbound authors
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
June 24, 2025
Eye to publish Unbound’s prize-winning The Low Road in paperback
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
March 25, 2025
Sea Defences shortlisted for New Angle Prize
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
March 24, 2025
Eye acquires expat memoir of life in ‘the world’s happiest country’
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
March 10, 2025
Nicola May works out TV deal for Working It Out
The bestselling novelist Nicola May has signed an option agreement with a production company to adapt her debut novel for the small screen
March 5, 2025
Former head of Atlantic Books joins Eye as publisher and MD
Will Atkinson, the former head of Atlantic Books, has joined Eye Books as its publisher and managing director
September 16, 2024
Makereti’s ‘James Poneke’ named as joint-best NZ book of the century
Tina Makereti’s novel The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke tied in joint first place in a poll of New Zealand literary experts
August 15, 2024
Local shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize
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
July 11, 2024
Local longlisted for the Wainwright Prize
Alastair Humphreys’ account of exploring the unprepossessing landscape around his own home is listed for the UK’s premier nature-writing prize
May 22, 2024
Sea Defences shortlisted for Paul Torday Memorial 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
May 6, 2024
Ms. Demeanor makes the shortlist of three for the Thurber Prize
Elinor Lipman’s Ms Demeanor is a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor – the premier US award for comic writing
April 24, 2024
The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean shortlisted for Stockton Children’s Book of the Year
Alastair Humphreys’ fictionalised children’s version of his own Atlantic crossing is on a shortlist of five
January 8, 2024
Surreal comedy featuring Wilkie Collins reissued to mark bicentennial
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