Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein’s influential ‘Abundance’ makes the FT/Schroders shortlist, as does Eva Dou’s ‘House of Huawei.’
‘Rural Hours’: Harriet Baker Wins the UK’s Young Writer Award
The 2025 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer honor in the United Kingdom goes to Harriet Baker.
UK: Sophie Elmhirst Wins the £30,000 Nero Gold Prize
Sophie Elmhirst wins the Nero Gold Prize for her ‘Maurice and Maralyn,’ a work of narrative nonfiction about a couple’s survival at sea.
Scotland: PRH UK’s ‘Lit in Colour’ Book-Vending Machine
The diversity-led ‘Lit in Colour’ program at Penguin Random House UK places a vending machine at Scotland’s Linlithgow Academy.
In London: Penguin Books UK’s 2024 Cover Design Awards
The Penguin Books UK competition in book cover design for a third year was open to all applicants: 30 percent are not students.
London: Tom Crewe Wins the Sunday Times’ Young Writer Award
Jury comments about the Sunday Times Young Writer-winning debut, ‘The New Life,’ call Tom Crewe’s book, a ‘tenderly sensual account of masculine sexuality.’
UK: The Sunday Times Young Writer 2024 Shortlist
Praising ‘their attentiveness to the world,’ the 2024 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year jury names four authors to its shortlist.
UK: Neil Rollinson Wins the 2023 Deborah Rogers Writers Foundation Award
England’s Deborah Rogers Foundation this time honors a published poet who’s producing his first novel, ‘The Dead Don’t Bleed.’
London Book Fair and Literacy Trust Open Schools Program
London Book Fair has announced its first schools program, expected to bring 80 students to the floor of the trade show this week at Olympia.
Children’s Books and Creators of Color: BookTrust Reports
Taking time to honor progress–and point to the need for more–England’s BookTrust reflects on diversity’s place in kids’ reading.