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.
Classicist Mary Beard to Chair Judging Panel for the UK’s Booker Prize
Classicist Mary Beard will chair the judging panel for UK’s Booker Prizes.
The UK’s Westminster Book Awards Announces Shortlist in 10th Year
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.
Future-Proofing Equality: UK Children’s Publishing Braces for the U.S. Playbook
Can children’s publishing stay inclusive as US book bans spread? A UK symposium sounds the alarm and explores solutions.
The 25th Bollinger Prize in the UK Awards Two Prizes This Year
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.
UK: Booker Prize Names David Szalay Its 2025 Winner
David Szalay becomes the first Hungarian-British writer to win the Booker Prize for Fiction, having been shortlisted once before.
Scottish Library Council Insists, ‘Libraries Are Essential Public Infrastructure’
Scotland’s public libraries are being supported by a call for more serious financial and contextual support as key infrastructure.
Australia’s Helen Garner Wins the UK’s £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize in Nonfiction
‘A fascinating insight into the creative reality of a writer’s life,’ Helen Garner’s win is a first for a diary.
The UK’s Booker Prizes Open a £50,000 Children’s Award
The Booker Prize Foundation says that its newly announced Children’s Prize has been three years in the planning.
Sunil Amrith Wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize
‘Interconnections between human history and environmental transformation’ are the focus of the 2025 British Academy Book Prize win.