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Author Jokha Alharthi and translator Marilyn Booth have jointly won the Man Booker International Prize 2019 for Celestial Bodies, published by small Scottish indie Sandstone Press, with Alharthi the first [...]

Man Booker-longlisted author Sally Rooney, former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton and Penguin editor Henry Eliot have made the shortlist for Waterstones Book of the Year 2018. The eight-strong [...]

Historical novel The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry has beaten the likes of J K Rowling and Beatrix Potter to be crowned Waterstones Book of the Year 2016. Described as [...]

Women have claimed 15 of the 20 shortlist spots for the 2016 Costa Book Awards, which recognise the 'most enjoyable' novel, first novel, poetry, biography and children's book published in [...]

Andrea Wulf has won the 29th Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize for her biography of explorer Alexander von Humboldt, The Invention of Nature (John Murray). Chair of the [...]

Has there been a difference between the publishing experience in the us and UK? any UK quirks? Everyone at Picador did a wonderful job. It was able to build upon [...]

Frances Hardinge's Costa-winning The Lie Tree (Macmillan Children's Books) is vying with books by Patrick Ness and Louise O'Neill on the 'outstanding' 10-strong shortlist for The Bookseller's 2016 YA Book [...]

Steve Silberman right has won the 20,000 £ Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently (Allen [...]

Claire Fuller has won the Desmond Elliott Prize 2015 for her novel Our Endless Numbered Days (Fig Tree). Novelist Louise Doughty, chair of the judges for this year's prize, which [...]

US writer George Saunders has won the inaugural Folio Prize for his short-story collection Tenth of December (Bloomsbury, 8.99 [pounds sterling], paperback). Announcing the winner this week (10th March) at [...]

Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of Italian artist Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Pike (4th Estate), has won the 20,000 [pounds sterling] Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Hughes-Hallett, who is married to Vintage's Dan [...]

Puffin's campaign for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney was named the overall winner at the Book Marketing Society's second annual Marketing Campaign of the [...]

David Constantine has become the first English writer to win the 25,000 [euro] Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Constantine's Tea at the Midland (Comma Press) was selected from a [...]

Simon & Schuster scooped three awards at the British Sports Book Awards on 21st May, including Best Autobiography/Biography for Seven Deadly Sins by David Walsh. The overall Sports Book of [...]

Bookseller staff E L James has won the Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year for her erotica smash hit Fifty Shades of Grey (Arrow) at the National Book Awards [...]

A few weeks on from Hilary Mantel's historic second Man Booker win, and this year's shortlisted publishers are planning new titles and fresh looks to capitalise on the attention. Mantel's [...]

A debut novel from South Africa has joined the shortlist for this year's Green Carnation Prize, celebrating writing by Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) authors. Moffie by Andre Carl Van [...]

Circulation by Thomas Wright (Chatto) has won the 2012 Wellcome Trust Book Prize. The 25,000 [pounds sterling] award was announced on Wednesday evening (7th October). Wright's title tells the life [...]

Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson and a novel from Welsh publisher Seren, The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness, feature together on a diverse longlist for [...]

Debut author Jason Wallace has won the Branford Boase award for his novel Out of Shadows (Andersen Press)--a previou winner of the Costa Children's Book Award. The award, which recognises [...]

Prizes for authors are all just wonderful. They are simply the very best way to draw people's attention to books they would not even consider reading under normal circumstances. But [...]

Thanks to its shock Orange Prize for Fiction win (the bookies have now got it wrong three years in a row), sales of Tea Obreht's The Tiger's Wife (Weidenfeld) soared [...]

Nikesh Shukla's Costa-nominated Coconut Unlimited has been longlisted for the [pounds sterling]10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize 2011, the award for a first novel published in the UK. The Quartet title joins [...]

Random House Group has scored three wins at the Crime Writers' Association's Dagger Awards, which took place at last week's Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. Doubleday author Johan Theorin [...]

US crime writer Harlan Coben was named this week as ITV3 viewers' favourite crime genre author, beating Dick Francis, Alexander McCall Smith, Nicci French and Martina Cole. The award was [...]

Caption: Criminally good: Little, Brown author Mark Billingham left won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for Death Message. It is the second time Billingham has [...]

Paula Sofowora has won a British Female Inventors and Innovators Award (BFIIN) for her book, Discover Nigeria. Sofowora set up her own publishing company, Amlap Publishing, alongside her day job [...]

Siobhan Dowd has been post-humously awarded the 2009 CILIP Carnegie Medal for her fourth and final novel, Bog Child (David Fickling Books). The CILIP Greenaway Medal was awarded to Catherine [...]

The British Library and the Poetry Book Society, supported by Michael Marks Charitable Trust, announced the winners of the inaugural Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets on Wednesday (24th June). [...]

Edward Hogan was revealed as the winner of the second 10,000 £ Desmond Elliott Prize for his debut novel Blackmoor (Simon & Schuster) on Wednesday (24th June).The prize was set [...]

US President Barack Obama won the Tesco Biography of the Year at the 2009 Galaxy British Book Awards, held last Friday at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. His Dreams [...]

Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine (Penguin) has won the inaugural 50,000 £ Warwick Prize for Writing. The announcement was made on 24th February. The prize, run and funded by the [...]

The winners of the annual Publishers Publicity Circle (PPC) awards were announced on Tuesday with Random House Group publicists winning five. Rina Gill was praised by the judges for 'extraordinary [...]

When Sebastian Barry picked up the Costa Book of the Year Award last week for The Secret Scripture (Faber) it signified long-awaited award recognition for a man no stranger to [...]

Neil Gaiman has won the Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book. Published by Bloomsbury UK in October 2008, The Graveyard Book tells the tale of Bod, who is adopted by [...]

Faber has doubled the paperback print run for Sebastian Barry's novel The Secret Scripture after it was awarded the Costa Book of the Year on Tuesday night (27th January). Faber [...]

The shortlist for the fifth Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, championing new and emerging children's writers, has been announced. The nominated authors come from a variety of backgrounds and include a [...]

Jen Hadfield has won the 2008 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry with her second collection Nigh-No-Place (Bloodaxe). The announcement was made on Monday (12th January). Valerie Eliot, the widow [...]

Caption: No beef: Tim Tzouliadis left, poses with a Yeoman Warder at the Longman-History Today annual awards, held at the New Armories, Tower of London on 8th January. His book, [...]

Sebastian Barry's Man Booker-nominated The Secret Scripture (Faber) has won the novel category accolade at the Costa Book Awards 2008, which took place on Monday (5th January). The other category [...]

Love is a wonderful thing--especially when it's naked and with someone cute. In most instances, I am liberal and uninhibited--until I find myself reading a sex scene written by one [...]

Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year * Winners announced: 28th November * Book of the year: Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman (Hamish Hamilton) * First book: The Good [...]

Alex Ross has won the Guardian First Book Award for The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Fourth Estate). Ross' history of the 20th century through its music [...]

Caption: Many thunks: Ian Gilbert author of The Little Book of Thunks (Crown House) was named the winner of The Author's Licensing and Collecting Society Award for Educational Writing by [...]

Tabitha Suzuma won the Young Minds Book Award for From Where I Stand (RHCB). Charity Young Minds works to improve the mental health of all children and young people under [...]

Titles from 18 different publishers have made the longlist for the inaugural 50,000 £ Warwick Prize for Writing, with 12 non-fiction titles and eight novels up for the award, including [...]

The shortlist for the Blue Peter BookAwards have been unveiled. The winners of each category and the overall winner will be chosen by 'Blue Peter' viewers and announced on World [...]

The Guardian has announced the shortlist for its 2008 First Book award. Man Booker nominee Steve Toltz appears for his debut A Fraction of the Whole (Hamish Hamilton) alongside Mohammed [...]

Anderson Press and Definitions have two books each on the shortlist for the YoungMinds Book Award 2008. The longlist of 14 has been cut to six, after reviews of the [...]

PRIZES RECENTLY AWARDED The Keats-Shelley Competition * Winners announced: 15th October * Winning poet: first prize: John Gohorry; in second place: Jackie Hinden; in third place: Caroline Gilfillan * Winning [...]