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It was a scramble for the top in this year's 'books of the year' round-ups in the national and cultural magazines, with debutants and established literary and non-fiction voices vying [...]

Hachette leads the way at the British Book Awards, with 14 nominations for the trade awards, including two of its divisions, Orion and John Murray Press, up for Publisher of [...]

I have just returned from two very exciting weeks visiting the main publishers in London where I was presented with their paperback wares through to next autumn. My house is [...]

Sales of the big books were bigger than ever in 2005. New records were broken in non-fiction, booksellers saw the biggest launch day sales yet of a Harry Potter book, […]

Penguin Random House leads the nominations for The British Book Awards' Books of the Year and Trade categories, with the consumer publishing giant taking 26 places across both shortlists--18% of [...]

Faber emerged victorious at the British Book Awards 2019, with Sally Rooney's Normal People scooping the coveted Book of the Year, and stablemate Leila Slimani's Lullaby winning Fiction: Debut of [...]

A graphic novel won an award at the Society of Authors' Translation Prize, for the first time, on Wednesday (13th February). The prize was one of seven handed out at [...]

Are Gay Men More Accurate in Detecting Deceits? raises many questions. More accurate than whom? Anyone else on the LGBTQI+ spectrum? Or what ... a polygraph machine? Call of Nature: [...]

One in three Diagram champions was written by a professorial egghead... [including] Designing High Performance Stiffened Structures It has been a significant birthday year from some of the lesser literary [...]

Philip Pullman is in the running for the YA Book Prize 2018 alongside previous winners Sarah Crossan and Patrice Lawrence, and debut author M A Bennett. Pullman is shortlisted for [...]

Some 82 titles have been shortlisted for this year's British Book Design & Production Awards. The 2016 British Book Design & Production Awards finalists have been revealed, with Penguin Random [...]

The Academy of British Cover Design hosted its third annual awards last week, championing the best in British book livery. Co-founders Jamie Keenan and Jon Gray tell Danny Arter how [...]

The inaugural British Book Industry Awards' Book of the Year shortlists--covering Children's, Debut, Fiction and Non-fiction--showcase the 'glorious way that publishing continually shifts and reinvents itself', chair of judges Cathy [...]

Former junior doctor Adam Kay's memoir This is Going to Hurt (Picador) has won the Books Are My Bag Readers' Choice Award, voted for by the public. The title also [...]

INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS TRIUMPHED at the British Book Design & Production Awards last night (16th November), with 16 of the 18 prizes dispensed at the awards dinner, held at the Millenium [...]

Three debut authors are up against children's book heavyweights Malorie Blackman and Francesca Simon on the 10-strong YA Book Prize 2017 shortlist. Former children's laureate Blackman is shortlisted for her [...]

Naeem Murr's The Perfect Man (Heinemann) has taken the prize for Best Book in European and South-East Asian heats of the 2007 Commonwealth Best BookAward, while Hisham Matar's Bookershortlisted debut [...]

The shortlist has been announced for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary. The titles are Susie Boyt's The Last Hope of Girls (Headline [...]

HarperCollins, Orion and Penguin dominate the shortlists for this years Macallan Daggers, the high-profile crime book awards organised by the Crime Writers Association. Three of the six authors on the [...]

Sandra Lousada's Baby Faces (£2.99, 0333 903986), from Macmillan's new Baby Campbell imprint, has won the 2001 Sainsbury's Baby Book Award. The £2,000 prize was presented during events marking Children's [...]

The British Academy has launched a new prize for academic books that are 'both scholarly and accessible'. The £2,500 British Academy Book Prize will be given to the best book [...]

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 [...]

... IN ASSOCIATION WITH: BOOKS ARE MY BAG ... 'Crime is the genre best represented among the debut fiction shortlist THE SHORTLIST * THE VERSIONS OF US, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON [...]

... IN ASSOCIATION WITH: BOOKS ARE MY BAG ... 'A nod for 2015's biggest-selling debut cookbook, and for the title which previously held the record THE SHORTLIST * SPQR, PROFILE [...]

... IN ASSOCIATION WITH: BOOKS ARE MY BAG ... 'Penguin Random House dominates the fiction category, with six of the eight shortlisted titles THE SHORTLIST * A GOD IN RUINS, [...]

You are living in historic times, ones that your grandchildren will query you about. 'Were you there' they will ask in awed, hushed tones, 'in 2016 for the closest-ever Diagram [...]

More than 1,500 people have nominated titles for World Book Night 2012, with over 3,000 titles being suggested just over a week after the ballot opened. Titles such as To [...]

SPONSORED BY: THE PUBLISHERS' PUBLICITY CIRCLE AMID THE CONSTANT buzz of new releases, it takes special publicity to make a book's voice heard. These six campaigns--all already winners in their [...]

Awful Auntie, a huge hit on publication, further built brand David Walliams, establishing him as the hottest British children's writer around. It was the biggest-selling book published in 2014, and [...]

History has been made with this year's Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year: has the Great British Public finally grown up? Perhaps appropriate in our current fevered [...]

Children's titles make up the rump of books nominated for The Bookseller's inaugural Book of the Year, to be presented at The Bookseller Industry Awards at the Park Lane Hilton [...]

The Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD) last week (5th March) revealed the winners of its second cover design competition. Headed by publication designers Jamie Keenan and Jon Gray, ABCD [...]

A small insight into the spirit that brought Time Warner Books UK the British Book Award for Publisher of the Year came when the Bookseller. com posted its own, unofficial [...]

Lisa Milton BCA Val McDermid's The Torment of Others should carry a warning: "Beware: don't start reading this unless you have an uninterrupted 24 hours." I was taken hostage by […]

The multi-voice recording of the curiously absorbing children's book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was the star of the Spoken Word Awards 2003, winning the top [...]

Two Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novels have been shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Book Awards. The awards honour books published in the past year in five categories--First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry [...]

Jessie Burton's debut The Miniaturist (Picador) has joined Richard Flanagan's Man Booker Prize winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Chatto) on the Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist. [...]

Man Booker 2014-shortlisted Ali Smith, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction winner Eimear McBride, and Costa Book of the Year 2014 winner Nathan Filer are among the authors up for Specsavers [...]

The shortlists for the 10,000 [pounds sterling] Forward Prizes were announced this week. The list for Best Collection comprises: Colette Bryce for The Whole & Rain-domed Universe (Picador Poetry); John [...]

Two Granta titles have been shortlisted for the inaugural Thwaites Wainwright Prize for UK nature and travel writing (5,000 [pounds sterling]), run by Frances Lincoln in association with the National [...]

Kate Atkinson's Life After Life (Doubleday) scooped the Costa Novel Award on 6th January. Lucy Hughes-Hallett won the Costa Biography Award for The Pike: Gabriele DAnnunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher [...]

Twenty-five years old this year, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award is the richest, most prestigious award of its kind in the world, and there is no [...]

Penguin Random House titles dominate the shortlist for the Waterstones Book of the Year. Only one of the six titles--the children's book Maps (Big Picture Press/Templar) by Polish husband and [...]

The six shortlisted books for the 2012 $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature have been unveiled. They are: U R Ananthamurthy's Bharathipura (OUP, India); Chandrakanta's A Street in Srinagar [...]

Random House imprint Yellow Jersey Press has scored a hat-trick of wins at the British Sports Book Awards, with W H Smith also taking home the best sports book retailer [...]

Six titles have made the shortlist for the latest Wellcome Trust Book Prize, which recognises works on the themes of medicine, health and wellness. Author Rebecca Skloot has been picked [...]

The founders of the Orange Prize should look back in pride as they celebrate 15 years of the sometimes controversial writers' award this week. Judged purely on what it was [...]

The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway book award shortlists have been announced with The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Chris Riddell, on both shortlists. This is the first [...]

A mix of debuts and established names have made the Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist announced this week at a breakfast event at London Book Fair. The shortlist was indie-heavy [...]

The release in paperback of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall was a good reminder of why prizes matter. It's the first time a Man Booker-winner has topped the charts since records [...]