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Financial Times and Standard Chartered Partner on FT Business Book of the Year Award

Erin L. Cox — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:53:09 +0000

International banking group Standard Chartered supports the FT's popular business book award as well as supporting the next generation of business writers with the return of the Bracken Prize for Young Authors.

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Classicist Mary Beard to Chair Judging Panel for the UK’s Booker Prize

Erin L. Cox — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:37:39 +0000

Classicist Mary Beard will chair the judging panel for UK's Booker Prizes.

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The UK’s Westminster Book Awards Announces Shortlist in 10th Year

Erin L. Cox — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:24:44 +0000

Highlighting the importance of the trinity of freedoms celebrated in the United Kingdom, this year's Westminster Book Award shortlist features themes of ethics in business and war, climate change, healthcare, and the changing face of leadership.

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Future-Proofing Equality: UK Children’s Publishing Braces for the U.S. Playbook

Meike Eckern — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:02:30 +0000

Can children’s publishing stay inclusive as US book bans spread? A UK symposium sounds the alarm and explores solutions.

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The 25th Bollinger Prize in the UK Awards Two Prizes This Year

Erin L. Cox — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:00:52 +0000

The UK's Bollinger Prize, celebrating its 25th anniversary, awarded the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction to Rosanna Pike and the Vintage Bollinger Prize to Marina Lewycka.

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UK: Booker Prize Names David Szalay Its 2025 Winner

Porter Anderson — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:01:55 +0000

David Szalay becomes the first Hungarian-British writer to win the Booker Prize for Fiction, having been shortlisted once before.

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Scottish Library Council Insists, ‘Libraries Are Essential Public Infrastructure’

Porter Anderson — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:55:45 +0000

Scotland's public libraries are being supported by a call for more serious financial and contextual support as key infrastructure.

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Australia’s Helen Garner Wins the UK’s £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize in Nonfiction

Porter Anderson — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:42:16 +0000

'A fascinating insight into the creative reality of a writer's life,' Helen Garner's win is a first for a diary.

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The UK’s Booker Prizes Open a £50,000 Children’s Award

Porter Anderson — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:35:04 +0000

The Booker Prize Foundation says that its newly announced Children’s Prize has been three years in the planning.

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Sunil Amrith Wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize

Porter Anderson — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:15:20 +0000

'Interconnections between human history and environmental transformation' are the focus of the 2025 British Academy Book Prize win.

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