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W&N acquire THE MIRROR AND THE PALETTE: 500 YEARS OF WOMEN’S SELF PORTRAITS, a major new art history from the editor of FRIEZE magazine Jennifer Higgie
Until the 20th century, art history was, in the main, written by white, western men who tended to write about other white, western men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet, they have – and, of course, continue to do so – often against […]
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W&N pre-empts debut literary crime novel set in the dark alleys of Buenos Aires
Federico Andornino, Commissioning Editor at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, has pre-empted World English language rights in Eloísa Díaz’s debut novel REPENTANCE, in a deal struck by Maria Cardona at Pontas Literary & Film Agency. French rights were pre-empted by Carla Briner at Le Masque. Set in Argentina over a dual timeframe, REPENTANCE is literary crime at […]
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Meet the W&N Editorial Team
Welcome to the new W&N website! Our passion for extraordinary writing dates back to our two founders, Lord Weidenfeld and Nigel Nicolson, who were responsible for introducing some of the twentieth-century’s most remarkable voices – Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, Eric Hobsbawm, and Nicolson’s own parents Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West – to a wide […]
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Flowers Over the Inferno
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The Book of Emma Reyes
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The Favourite
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A Double Life
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I Am Malala
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Les Parisiennes
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The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992
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Call The Midwife
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The Color Purple
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Testament of Youth
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The Tiger's Wife
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HISTORY
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The King and the Catholics
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Jerusalem
The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it. Jerusalem is the universal city,…
The Second World War
A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian. The Second World War began in August…
Les Parisiennes
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The Husband Hunters
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Lenin the Dictator
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Chaucer's People
'A holiday in the complex, joyful, indelicate medieval world' John Higgs, author of Watling Street Chaucer's People is an absorbing and revealing guide to the…
AWARD WINNERS
History of Wolves
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE 'A writer with a great future ahead of her...her prose is exquisite' LOUISE DOUGHTY, author of APPLE TREE…
Where Poppies Blow
Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writing The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War 'If…
The Romanovs
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Do No Harm
Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award; Duff Cooper Prize; Wellcome…
Inverting the Pyramid
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The Tiger's Wife
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Gone Girl
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An Equal Stillness
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The Siege Of Krishnapur
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East West Street
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Fiction in Translation
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Now Let's Dance
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