Today marks the release of The Borough Press anthology Of This Our Country, celebrating acclaimed Nigerian writers. One such writer, our very own Anietie Isong, spoke to us about Nigeria, the collection, and his (many!) other projects. Nigeria is the 7th largest global population, and its population is set to take over the US’s by the year 2050. For such a large population, do you feel Nigerian voices are sufficiently represented in literature? Nigeria overtaking the US? I hope the world is ready for this population explosion! That said, I believe our voices are well-represented in lit ..read more

  This week sees the release of Hot Stew, the much anticipated second novel from Fiona Mozley. In 2017 Mozley’s debut novel Elmet made an overnight sensation of its author, scooping up prizes, rave reviews, and a place on the Booker shortlist. Elmet’s depiction of a secluded family on the Yorkshire moors swiftly became an exemplar of modern rural noir. Mozley’s latest book Hot Stew leaves behind the rugged dales and districts for the grit and grime of London’s inner district of Soho. Through brothels and pubs, back alleys and tunnels, the novel tracks a city in motion and the indivi ..read more

As we find our feet in 2021, we look forward to a bountiful year of book releases: debuts and follow ups, fiction and non-fiction, hardback and paperback. With a number of fantastic hardbacks out last year, we’re now blessed with their paperback follow-ups. As ever from Artellus Ltd. there’s a great variety: From Nazis and Paris to motherhood and madness. The two things all these books have in common are their superb quality and their literary agency. Juliet Bates’ The Colours was released on Fleet (Little Brown) last year. The hardback garnered praise for its literary prose, fine artistr ..read more

  As an international literary agency, getting an author's manuscript onto the shelves of your local British bookshop is only half the work. Our job also involves negotiating contracts all over the English reading world, in translation country by country, and working in partnership with English language publishers as they place rights abroad on our behalf. Selling our authors' books abroad is exciting for a few reasons: a foreign audience will come at the book from an entirely different angle; the undergoing of literary translation is a minor miracle (more on this here); and a new book ..read more

  Jon Curzon (pictured with gorge) has been working at Artellus Ltd. since 2016. He is a graduate of English Literature and alongside his role at Artellus works as a freelance editor. As agent for Artellus Ltd. he represents authors of both fiction and non-fiction, handling domestic and international rights. Jon also works with Artellus co-founder Gabriele Pantucci reviewing English literary releases for the Italian press. We spoke to Jon about his work and literary tastes. Jon, how did you get into publishing and end up working with us here at Artellus Ltd.? After university I appli ..read more

Nina Lakhani's new book WHO KILLED BERTA CÁCERES? tells the story of an Indigenous environmental activist murdered in Honduras. Berta Cáceres was a celebrated champion of her indigenous Lenca community and fiercely opposed the construction of a dam on their land. Ultimately, her defiance put her at lethal odds with the companies and Honduran government supporting the dam's construction. On the 3rd of March 2016 she was assassinated by gunmen later linked to the construction of the dam. Nina Lakhani's book details her investigation into the complex power structures at play in Cáceres' murd ..read more

Robert O'Connor's first book Blood and Circuses charts his journeys through the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, looking at how football culture is tied up with ideas of nationhood, history, and power. For the Artellus blog, Robert talks about how he went from rookie sports journalist in the UK to writing a book about footballing culture in remote corners of Eastern European. Blood and Circuses is out now on Biteback Publishing, and can be purchased here. “I knew from the earliest days of my career as a football journalist that I wanted to write about more than just the domestic game ..read more

Juliet Bates hails from the North East of England and lives in France teaching art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Caen in Normandy. Her debut novel The Missing was published in 2009 on Linen Press, her short fiction has appeared in various publications. Bates' latest novel The Colours is out now on Fleet Reads, an imprint of Little Brown. This sweeping novel features a mother and son separated in the early 1900s. With its rich visual descriptions the novel is an exploration of looking differently at our surroundings and relationships to place. Juliet, your latest novel The Colours has jus ..read more

Kevin Doherty called time on a successful and lucrative career in marketing to make good on his lifelong dream of writing. Doherty's well-loved historical thrillers range from gripping espionage in Cold War Russia to daring heroism in Nazi-occupied France. His fourth book, The Leonardo Gulag, is a startlingly original tale of art and survival in a notorious Soviet prison camp. We spoke to Kevin Doherty about choosing his genre, slow-burning ideas, and the power of fictional woes to escape real ones. Kevin, what did you do before you got into writing? I earned a living! A sensible livi ..read more

Rachel Bennett, or Rakie for short, is a Manx writer of Crime and Thrillers whose debut novel The Flood came out in September with Avon Books. The novel takes places in a flooded town where a death in the family unspools into a dark tale of past and present mysteries. Here Rakie talks to us about their career in the Isle of Man's criminal courts and pathology department, their work with the Manx Lit Fest, and their love of classic horror. Rachel, you’ve had some interesting jobs, tell us a bit about them. For ten years I was working in the criminal justice system; my posh job title was C ..read more