Mature authors on ‘individuals trying to live with other people’: A rather grownup shortlist is announced by the Booker Prize.
In Scotland: The £25,000 Trivedi Science Book Prize 2025 Shortlist
From a pool of 254 initial submissions, the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize jury names six 2025 shortlistees in Edinburgh.
London’s Booker Prize for Fiction: The 2025 Longlist
An especially international Booker Prize for Fiction longlist features many writers, as Gaby Wood points out, with sustained careers.
Margaret McDonald Wins the Branford Boase Award for ‘Glasgow Boys’
Called ‘refreshingly strong and bold,’ Margaret McDonald’s ‘Glasgow Boys’ continues its wins, this time with the Branford Boase Award.
Sudan’s Leila Aboulela Wins the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize
The newly named 2025 PEN Pinter Prize laureate Leila Aboulela will give her address on October 10 at the British Library.
UK: The £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize Names Its Shortlist
With marketplace-impact data of its winner to follow, the UK’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction names its 2024 shortlist at Cheltenham.
UK: The £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize’s 2024 Longlist
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction has released its 12-title 2024 longlist, with its shortlist expected from the jury on October 31.
UK: Isabella Hammad Wins the Royal Society’s 2024 Encore Award
The winner of the RSL’s Encore award, Isabella Hammad, says that it’s in writing a second novel that ‘a writer really becomes a writer.’
UK: Faber in Partnership With English PEN for the Pinter Prize
In London, Faber deepens its relationship with English PEN and the Pinter Prize, becoming the honor’s sponsor for three years.
The UK’s Royal Society of Literature Names an ‘Encore’ Shortlist
The ‘Encore’ contest for second novels has been administered by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Literature since 2016.