Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2025 shortlist revealed
Wednesday, 16 April 2025
The 2025 shortlist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction has been announced. Shortlisted titles are: All Fours (Miranda July, Canongate) Code Noir (Canisia Lubrin, Soft Skull) Liars (Sarah Manguso,...
American Library Association releases 2024’s 10 most challenged books
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
In the US, National Library Week (NLA) has concluded after a week celebrating the ‘essential role that libraries, along with library professionals and workers, play in changing people’s lives and...
‘Small Rain’ named 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Monday, 14 April 2025
Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) has been selected as the winner of the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, worth US$15,000 (A$23,771). Small Rain was chosen from a shortlist...
Women’s Prize announces ‘one-off’ Outstanding Contribution Award
Thursday, 10 April 2025
In the UK, the Women's Prize Trust has announced the Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award, a 'one-off literary honour' to be awarded to a living female author 'in recognition of...
International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2025 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$107,528), has been announced. Chosen from a longlist of 16, the titles in the running for this...
US tariffs exempt books ‘for now’
Tuesday, 8 April 2025
While US President Donald Trump's implementation of new tariffs has impacted a range of countries and goods, ‘at least for now, books have fared well,’ reports Publishers Weekly. 'Since Trump's...
NaNoWriMo shuttered
Monday, 7 April 2025
Nonprofit organisation NaNoWriMo has announced its closure, reports Publishers Weekly. NaNoWriMo interim executive director Kilby Blades announced the closure via YouTube. Publishers Weekly noted that this decision 'follows a period of...
2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist announced
Thursday, 3 April 2025
In the UK, the 2025 shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, worth £30,000 (A$62,328), has been announced. The six shortlisted titles, chosen from a longlist of 16, are: All...
Brunet wins 2025 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
French author Marion Brunet has won the 2025 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, worth 5 million SEK (A$794,966), reports Publishers Weekly. Judges made note of Brunet's settings, ‘a fiercely pulsating present with...
PRH 2024 results: 8.5% sales increase
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Worldwide sales at Penguin Random House (PRH) increased by 8.5% and profits rose 11.3% in 2024, due to higher book prices, the continuing strength of the audiobook market, and higher...
Women’s Prize for Nonfiction 2025 shortlist announced
Monday, 31 March 2025
In the UK, the 2025 shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, worth £30,000 (A$61,725), has been announced. Shortlisted titles are: A Thousand Threads (Neneh Cherry, Fern Press) The Story...
2025 Dublin Literary Award shortlist announced
Thursday, 27 March 2025
Six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. The prize, which is the 'world's most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English'...
Canadian booksellers, publishers lobby against tariffs
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
In Canada, booksellers are asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to exclude books from the 25% counter-tariffs due to take effect on 2 April, covering C$125 billion (A$139 billion) worth of...
2025 Windham-Campbell recipients announced
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
The recipients of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes, each worth US$175,000 (A$278,529), have been announced, reports Publishers Weekly. This year’s winning writers are Sigrid Nunez (US) and Anne Enright (Ireland) for...
Emma Lowe named LBF director
Monday, 24 March 2025
In the UK, Emma Lowe has been announced as the new director of the London Book Fair (LBF). Former director Adam Ridgway was appointed last year to succeed Gareth Rapley....
Spotify launches indie author platform
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Streaming platform Spotify has announced a new short-form genre publishing initiative 'specifically targeting self-published authors', reports Publishers Weekly. 'This is a global program, and any author with an English-language short-form...
Baker wins 2024 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
In the UK, Harriet Baker has won the £10,000 (A$20,365) Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award for Rural Hours (Allen Lane), a biography of Virginia Woolf,...
American Library Association condemns ‘White House assault’ on library services agency
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
In the US, the American Library Assocation (ALA), EveryLibrary, ‘and other organisations and individuals have rushed to defend’ the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an organisation the Trump...
International markets: fiction grows, nonfiction ‘struggles’
Monday, 17 March 2025
In the US, 'fiction sales are growing in global book markets, while nonfiction continues to struggle in most territories', according to a report prepared by GfK Entertainment and NielsenIQ BookData...
Fagan wins 2025 Gordon Burn Prize
Thursday, 13 March 2025
In the UK, Jenni Fagan has won the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize, worth £10,000 (A$20,566), for Ootlin (Hutchinson Heinemann). Selected from a shortlist of five that included Lucia Osborne-Crowley’s The Lasting...
Carnegie 2025 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
In the UK, the shortlists for the Carnegie Medal for Writing and the Carnegie Medal for Illustration have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: The Carnegie Medal...
US bookselling: ABA responds to criticism, B&N employees ratify union contracts
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
At the 2025 Winter Institute booksellers event in the US, several bookstore owners ‘once again protested the [American Booksellers Association (ABA)] board’s failure [to] take a clear stance on Israel’s...
Nero Gold, Audie award winners announced
Thursday, 6 March 2025
In London, Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Shipwreck, Survival and Love by Sophie Elmhirst (Vintage), has won the 2024 Nero Gold Prize, worth £30,000 (AU$60,948), reports the...
Preliminary data shows 6.5% increase in US book sales
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that, ‘preliminary data for the full year indicates that publishing industry sales increased 6.5% over 2023’, to US$14.18 billion (A$22.65b). The increase comes despite the...
London Book Fair: AI, copyright, young readers
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
The London Book Fair (LBF) will run this year 11–13 March at Olympia London. Publishers Weekly (PW) reports the fair expects to host more than 30,000 attendees and 845 exhibitors...
Bologna 2025 program announced
Monday, 3 March 2025
Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF), which this year runs 31 March to 3 April 2025 at the BolognaFiere Exhibition Centre, has released its full program. Running alongside BCBF is BolognaBookPlus...
AI dominates conversation at IPG 2025 Spring Conference
Thursday, 27 February 2025
In the UK, where the two-day Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) 2025 Spring Conference wrapped up on 26 February, AI continues to be the main topic of conversation in the book...
2025 International Booker longlist announced
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
In the UK, the longlist for the 2025 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$99,902), has been announced. The titles in the running for this year’s prize are: The Book of...
Walmart, others to stop stocking mass market paperbacks
Tuesday, 25 February 2025
In the US, Publishers Weekly reports that Readerlink will stop distributing mass market paperbacks to its accounts at the end of 2025. With customers including Walmart, Kroger and Hudson News,...
2025 International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlist announced
Monday, 24 February 2025
The committee for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) has announced its 2025 shortlisted titles, chosen from a longlist of 16. Shortlisted titles include: The Andalusian Messiah (Taissier Khalaf,...
