Non-fiction

We’ve teamed up with The Times and Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency to launch an open submission period for un-agented writers of narrative non-fiction. The winner will receive a £10,000 publishing contract with The Borough Press and representation with literary agent Emma Bal. We’re calling for unpublished, un-agented authors of narrative… Read More

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (Canongate) One of the best books I read in 2016 was Olivia Laing’s curiously addictive exploration of loneliness and the modern city, by way of art. Alone and adrift in New York in her mid-thirties, Laing found… Read More