David Evans

Literary agent /// David Higham Associates

[Jemima Forrester @jemimaforrester]

Grow Your Story is back! 🌈 @HachettePride, @DHAbooks and @FutureBookshelf are looking for unpublished, unagented LGBTQ+ fiction writers at the start of their writing careers to support and mentor through the programme. I'm excited to be involved as a reader and mentor! 📚🌈

[Peninsula Press @PressPeninsula]

The happiest of happy publication days to Eliza Barry Callahan, whose absurdly – frankly, frighteningly – good debut The Hearing Test publishes today

https://t.co/HKeUNxWYZV

[W&N @wnbooks]

Happy publication day to The Hypocrite by @jo_hamya! 💙🌟

'Thrilling and unpredictable... told with a dreamy, Sofia Coppola-esque quality' Natasha Brown
'Sharp, witty and astute' @DavidNWriter

The brilliant and compulsive novel is out now: https://t.co/7K4AUfDQSO

[New Writing North @NewWritingNorth]

@FaberBooks @durhambookfest @ForumBooks @nwnclaire @UniofNewcastle @NCLA_tweets @NickAhad @rorycarroll72 @J_Escoffery @AnnaFunder @estellecostanza @K_Scanlan_ @tagaq @melostme @Terri_White @andrewhankinson @CharlieBCuff @Sheena_Patel_ Kathryn Scanlan is the winner of the #GordonBurnPrize 2023/24! 🏆🐎 

Kick the Latch is "a thundering achievement", vividly capturing the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack. Kathryn wins £10,000 and a writing retreat at Gordon Burn's cottage. 

https://t.co/SySZlAosRc

[David Evans @davide_etc]

Yeeeeeees! An incredible year for an extraordinary collection - congratulations, @jallenpaisant!

[T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize]

The winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023 is Jason Allen-Paisant, for Self-Portrait as Othello!

[David Evans @davide_etc]

It's been a wild one, but I feel immensely proud of the @DHAbooks authors I've worked with this year and the brilliant books they've published.

Heartfelt thanks to @harriet__moore & Niki Chang for letting me step in.

[David Evans @davide_etc]

So delighted for @ForwardPrizes winners @jallenpaisant and @RuffneckRefugee!

[Forward Prizes @ForwardPrizes]

Huge congratulations to all tonight’s winners:

Malika Booker @MalikaBooker
Bohdan Piasecki @beveryquiet
Momtaza Mehri @RuffneckRefugee
Jason Allen-Paisant @jallenpaisant

And to all who were shortlisted and commended.

#ForwardPrizes

[David Evans @davide_etc]

Yeeeeees! So, so pleased to see Study for Obedience shortlisted for the #BookerPrize2023

[Granta Books @GrantaBooks]

We are thrilled to reveal that STUDY FOR OBEDIENCE by Sarah Bernstein is on the shortlist for the #BookerPrize2023 @TheBookerPrizes

‘A stirring meditation on survival and a pointed critique of the demonisation of the outsider’, according to the judges

https://t.co/7iPiqHvvv4

[The Booker Prizes @TheBookerPrizes]

Study for Obedience is an unsettling novel that explores themes of prejudice, abuse and guilt through the eyes of a singularly unreliable narrator.

Congratulations to Sarah Bernstein, longlisted for the #BookerPrize2023.

https://t.co/h7MDWKFTw8

[David Evans @davide_etc]

Sarah Bernstein's Study for Obedience (@GrantaBooks) is remarkable, & so pleased the #BookerPrize2023 judges have remarked it

[The Booker Prizes @TheBookerPrizes]

‘All 13 novels cast new light on what it means to exist in our time.’

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2023 longlist. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. 🎉

Find out more: https://t.co/0vTNpasvxq

[Kendall Storey @kendallstorey]

Et voilà! The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan now has an absolutely dreamy cover 🔴☁️

Fans of Cusk, Lispector, Jaeggy, & Sebald: brace yourselves 🔴☁️

Coming from @CatapultStory March '24 (Reviewers & booksellers, lmk if you'd like a galley!) 🔴☁️

[David Evans @davide_etc]

Excited for @RaymondAntrobus' expansive, hybrid work of non-fiction, spanning memoir, criticism and cultural history, on the betweenness of deaf and hearing worlds, and so much more

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

.@wnbooks has acquired award-winning poet @RaymondAntrobus' début non-fiction title, An Investigation of Missing Sound, described as “a ground-breaking story of deafness”.

Read here: https://t.co/JHuRkl3nkm

[David Evans @davide_etc]

🔥🔥🔥

[Jonathan Cape @JonathanCape]

We're over the moon to see FIRE RUSH by Jacqueline Crooks (@Luidas) shortlisted for this year's @WomensPrize. Congratulations, Jacqueline! 🔥

[David Evans @davide_etc]

And a shout-out to the super-agents @harriet__moore and @nikicchang!

[David Higham Books @DHAbooks]

We are so proud of our wonderful authors Jennifer Atkins, Sarah Bernstein, Sophie Mackintosh (@fairfairisles), Anna Metcalfe, and Saba Sams (@SamsSaba) who have been included in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023! 🎉
#YoungBritishNovelists

[David Higham Books @DHAbooks]

Huge congratulations to our wonderful authors @angela_hui and @riazphillips who have both made the shortlist for the 2023 #FANDMAWARDS with @Fortnums 🎉🥳

[David Higham Books @DHAbooks]

Yes, yes, YES! So excited to see

@fairfairisles's Cursed Bread
&
@Luidas 's Fire Rush
&
@elmckenzie1's The Dog of the North

longlisted for the @WomensPrize!

[David Evans @davide_etc]

Under starter's orders: @K_Scanlan_'s phenomenal Kick the Latch is out today @DauntBooksPub. A particular language, a particular world, a one-of-a-kind.

[David Evans @davide_etc]

!!!

[Saba Sams @SamsSaba]

Wonderful to have won @EHUShortStory prize on Friday. Send Nudes is flying and I’m so grateful. Shout out the exceptional shortlist, @LRBbookshop for hosting, the judges and the organisers of the prize, plus the legends @nikicchang @AllegraLeFanu @ange_tranvan Life’s alright <3

[David Evans @davide_etc]

Please be upstanding for #TheHappyCouple by Naoise Dolan

Out May 2023, @wnbooks

[Waterstones @Waterstones]

Charting the lives of the soon-to-be-married couple, the best man, the bridesmaid and a guest for an approaching wedding, this supreme comedy of errors from Naoise Dolan is as deviously clever as it is entertaining. Pre-order SIGNED Exclusive Edition here: https://t.co/aBe1TvTL2A

[lemara lindsay-prince @lemelp]

some news ✨

'empowering narratives of black lives in nature [...] a disruption in nature writing from the ‘grung’ [ground] up' 🌱🍃🌿

can't wait to share @jallenpaisant wonder with you all!
https://t.co/ENfqBb3aOc