Eswatini writer Kota wins overall Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
Eswatini writer Ntsika Kota has been named the overall winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story ‘and the earth drank deep’. Kota’s story centres on a...
Robertson wins Walter Scott Prize for ‘News of the Dead’
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
In the UK, James Robertson has won the £25,000 (A$44,000) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for News of the Dead (Hamish Hamilton), reports the Bookseller. News of the Dead, which...
Balen, Novgorodoff win Carnegie, Greenaway medals
Monday, 20 June 2022
The UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has announced the winners of the 2022 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. Katya Balen won the Carnegie Medal for children’s...
Bloomsbury reports record sales
Friday, 17 June 2022
In the UK, Bloomsbury achieved record sales of £230.1 million (A$403m)—up 24% on the previous year—in the year ending 28 February 2022, reports the Bookseller. Profits before taxation and highlighted...
Ozeki wins Women’s Prize for Fiction for ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness’
Thursday, 16 June 2022
In the UK, Ruth Ozeki has won the £30,000 (A$52,120) Women’s Prize for Fiction for her fourth novel The Book of Form and Emptiness (Text), reports the Bookseller. Ozeki's novel tells the...
UTA to acquire Curtis Brown
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
US-based company United Talent Agency (UTA) has signed an agreement to acquire literary agency Curtis Brown for an undisclosed sum, reports the Bookseller. Curtis Brown, which is based in the...
Costa announces end to Costa Book Awards
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
In the UK, Costa Coffee has announced the end of the Costa Book Awards, reports the Guardian. According to the Guardian, Costa has not yet given a reason for closing the...
Canada’s Indigo Books sales up 17.4% in 2022
Thursday, 9 June 2022
Canada’s largest bookshop chain Indigo Books & Music increased its sales by 17.4.% for the year ending 2 April, reports Publishers Weekly. The chain reported total sales of C$1.06 billion...
US audiobooks grow by double digits for 10th straight year
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
The US audiobook market recorded its 10th straight year of double-digit growth in 2021, with data from the Audio Publishers Association (APA) showing the market grew 25% compared to 2020,...
Desmond Elliott Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
In the UK, the shortlist for this year’s £10,000 ($17,400) Desmond Elliott Prize, presented to the best first novel from UK and Ireland, has been announced. The shortlisted novels are:...
Italian book sales dip as physical shops regain market share
Friday, 3 June 2022
Italian bricks-and-mortar bookshops have regained some of the market share lost to online due to Covid-19 closures, while overall book sales dipped in the first four months of 2022, reports...
Khan, Chan win 2022 Jhalak prizes
Monday, 30 May 2022
In the UK, the winners of the 2022 Jhalak prizes, which recognise ‘authors who feel that their work is often marginalised unless it fulfils a romantic fetishisation of their cultural...
Indian author Shree wins International Booker Prize
Friday, 27 May 2022
Indian author Geetanjali Shree has won the £50,000 (A$88,800) International Booker Prize for her novel Tomb of Sand (trans by Daisy Rockwell, Tilted Axis). The novel, which is set in northern...
Spufford wins £10k Encore Award for ‘Light Perpetual’
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
In the UK, Francis Spufford has won the £10,000 (A$17,630) Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Encore Award, presented annually to the best second novel of the year, for his book...
‘The Art of Losing’ wins 2022 Dublin Literary Award
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
The Art of Losing by French author Alice Zeniter, translated by Irishman Frank Wynne (Picador), has won the €100,000 (A$147,400) Dublin Literary Award, the world’s richest prize for a single...
Ventris to depart LBF
Monday, 23 May 2022
In the UK, director of the London Book Fair (LBF) Andy Ventris is expected to leave his role in the European summer, reports the Bookseller. Ventris, who was appointed in...
UK ebook purchases drop to lowest point since 2012
Friday, 20 May 2022
UK ebook purchases dropped to their lowest point since 2012 last year after a record 2020, reports the Bookseller. The data from Nielsen BookData, however, shows that the estimated spending...
Orwell Prizes 2022 shortlists announced
Thursday, 19 May 2022
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2022 Orwell Prizes for political writing have been announced. The titles shortlisted for the political writing book prize are: Behind Closed Doors (Polly...
Lockwood wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘No One is Talking About This’
Friday, 13 May 2022
In the UK, American writer Patricia Lockwood has won the £20,000 (A$36,240) Dylan Thomas Prize for her debut novel No One is Talking About This (Bloomsbury). Chair of judges Namita Gokhale...
‘Happy Stories, Mostly’ wins Republic of Consciousness Prize
Thursday, 12 May 2022
In the UK, Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu and his publisher Tilted Axis Press have won this year’s Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, for Pasaribu’s short story collection...
UK publishing staff report stress, burnout
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
A survey by the Bookseller has found the UK publishing trade is facing ‘industry-wide burnout’, with nearly nine out of 10 (89%) respondents having experienced work-related stress over the past...
Pulitzer Prize winners announced
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
In the US, the winners of this year's Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. Joshua Cohen won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Netanyahus (Fitzcarraldo), which the judges described as...
Foyles records operating loss as footfall remains ‘depressed’
Monday, 9 May 2022
In the UK, bookshop chain Foyles recorded an operating loss after sales dropped dramatically in the year ending 24 April, reports the Bookseller. Sales fell to £8.5 million (A$14.9m) last...
Ypi wins Ondaatje Prize for ‘Free’
Friday, 6 May 2022
In the UK, Lea Ypi has won the £10,000 (A$17,400) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for Free (Allen Lane), a coming-of-age memoir set amid political upheaval in Albania. The...
Edgar Awards 2022 winners announced
Monday, 2 May 2022
Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published or produced in 2021....
Swedish paper company to shut four of five mills
Thursday, 28 April 2022
UK publishing industry figures have expressed concern that the current paper crisis will worsen as Swedish paper company Stora-Enso moves to divest four of its five paper mills, reports the...
£50k Wolfson History Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 22 April 2022
In the UK, the shortlist for the £50,000 (A$88,400) Wolfson History Prize has been announced. The shortlisted works of history are: The Ottomans: Khans, caesars and caliphs (Marc David Baer,...
Ondaatje Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Thursday, 21 April 2022
The shortlist for this year’s £10,000 (A$17,500) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been announced. The annual award recognises the book ‘of highest literary merit—fiction, nonfiction or poetry—which best...
Jhalak Prize 2022 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The shortlists for the UK’s Jhalak Prize and the Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers have been announced. The titles shortlisted for...
UK indies fearful of cost of living rises
Tuesday, 19 April 2022
In the UK, independent booksellers are concerned that cost of living rises are leading to fewer customers and lower average spend per head, reports the Bookseller. Some shops are already...
