Reckless Paper Birds by John McCullough has been shortlisted in the poetry category of the major UK literary prize, the Costa Book Awards.

Independent publisher Penned in the Margins has acquired An Archive of Happiness, a new novel about an unconventional family in the Scottish Highlands by Elizabeth Reeder.

In a year of unprecedented success for The Perseverance, Raymond Antrobus has been shortlisted for The Sunday Times/Warwick University Young Writer of the Year Award.