the company became part of Hodder Headline (now Hachette), A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, becomes a perennial and controversial bestseller 2004 – Rebirth of the John Murray fiction list with Neil Jordan's Shade 2005 – Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala wins John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2007 – Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones becomes a global bestseller, wins the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 – Amitav Ghosh launches his epic Ibis trilogy with Sea of Poppies, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 – Down River by John Hart wins Edgar Award for Best Novel 2008 – The Secret Life of Words by Henry Hitchings wins the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2009 – The Last Child by John Hart wins CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger/ITV Thriller of the Year Award, and the Edgar Award for Best Novel 2009 – Martyr by Rory Clements, special mention in CWA Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award 2009 – Up in the Air by Walter Kirn turned into a film starring George Clooney 2010 – Revenger by Rory Clements wins CWA Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award 2010 – Film Sarah's Key, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, released, based on Tatiana de Rosnay's novel of the same name 2010 – Wait For Me! by Deborah Devonshire shortlisted for the British Book Awards Biography of the Year 2011 – Mistaken by Neil Jordan wins Irish Book of the Year Award 2012 – Icelight by Aly Monroe wins CWA Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award 2012 – Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip adapted into a film starring Hugh Laurie 2012 – Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the Waterstone's Book of the Year Award and the National Book Awards Biography of the Year 2020 – The Stonemason (book): A History of Building Britain by Andrew Ziminski. 2022 – The crime fiction and thriller imprint Baskerville is launched Film adaptations of John Murray titles Up in the Air (2009) – based on the novel by Walter Kirn, starring George Clooney and Anna Kendrick Sarah's Key (2010) – based on the novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, starring Kristin Scott Thomas Mister Pip (2012) – based on the novel by Lloyd Jones, starring Hugh Laurie References Further reading External links Official website National Library of Scotland - John Murray archive (accessed 20 October 2016) Works by