2007:

Stef Penney's debut novel THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES was published in September 2006 to excellent reviews. It won the COSTA Best First Novel Award and went on to win the very prestigious COSTA Best Novel of the Year Award in February 2007.

2006:

Jeffrey Caine's adaptation of John Le Carre's novel THE CONSTANT GARDENER has been widely nominated for many awards, including an Oscar nomination at the 78th Academy Awards (for Best Adapted Screenplay) and nominated for The Orange British Academy Film Awards 2006. The script has also been nominated as Finalist of 18th Annual University of Southern California Scripter Award for a film adaptation, and Best Adapted Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America. Jeffrey was nominated as Screenwriter of the Year by The London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. The film screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2005 and was nominated for seven British Independent Film Awards 2005.

Playwright Linda Marshall Griffiths was nominated for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize which awards British and American female playwrights. She was nominated for her play POMEGRANATE which will be produced at the Manchester Royal Exchange in Spring 2006. The same play won her a bursary from the Pearson Playwrights Scheme which also saw her as writer-in-residence at Royal Exchange.

Elspeth Sandys has been appointed Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for Services to Literature.

2005:

Barbara Cox won the Children's Film and Television BAFTA for the Best Adapted Screenplay category for her adaptation of Mimi Thebo's book WIPEOUT for BBC Education.

Carolyn Sally Jones' original drama for BBC Education, SHADOWPLAY, was also nominated for Best Educational Drama and Best Original screenplay at the Children's Film and Television BAFTAs.

Elspeth Sandys' play MASQUERADE won the International Playwriting Competition at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, In October 2005.

Robert Jones was co-creator of BURIED which won a BAFTA for Best Drama Series 2004.

Lilie Ferrari’s co-created television series The Clinic shortlisted for the
Irish Film and Television Awards

Eloise Millar’s Wednesday’s Child shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award

Claire Morrall’s Astonishing Splashes of Colour shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Sue Gee’s Thin Air runner-up for
Romantic Novelists’ Association Novel of the Year

Carol Lee’s Crooked Angels shortlisted for MIND Book of the Year

COPS, which Robert Jones, wins a second BAFTA for Best Drama Series 2000. The series also wins a Royal Television Society Award

Anne Perry’s short story Heroes wins an Edgar Award and is nominated for a
Macavity Award.

Robert Jones is co-creator on the ground-breaking BBC2 drama, COPS, made by World Productions, which wins a BAFTA for Best Drama Series 1999.

Ian R MacLeod’s The Summer Isles wins World Fantasy Award for Best Novella

Justina Robson’s Mappa Mundi is nominated for an Arthur C Clarke Award

1998:

Pat Thomas’ My Family’s Changing: A First Look at Family Break-up wins
English Association Best Children’s Picture Book

1997:

Sue Gee’s The Hours of the Night wins the Romantic Novelists’ Association Novel of the Year

Adam Lebor’s Hitler’s Secret Bankers shortlisted for the George Orwell Prize

Ian R MacLeod’s The Great Wheel wins Locus Year’s Best First Novel

1992:

Iain Sinclair’s Downriver wins the James Tait Memorial Prize and the Encore
Award