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International Booker Prize longlist revealed

Wednesday, 25 February 2026
In the UK, the longlist for the 2026 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$95,597), has been announced. Longlisted titles are: The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran (Shida Bazyar, trans Ruth Martin,...

2026 Unwin Award finalists named 

Cover of Hannah Ritchie's 'Not The End of the World' Wednesday, 18 February 2026
In the UK, the Publishers Association has announced the shortlist for this year’s Unwin Award, reported BookBrunch yesterday. The £10,000 (A$20,000) award goes annually to early-career authors whose body of...

Latest UK book award announcements 

Cover of 'The Hyena's Daughter'. Wednesday, 4 February 2026
In the UK, the winners of two major literary awards have been announced. Weatherglass Novella Prize winners The 2026 Weatherglass Novella Prize has been jointly awarded to Jupiter Jones’s The...

US bestselling publishers ranked 

Wednesday, 28 January 2026
In the US, the latest rankings of 2025 sales by Publishers Weekly (PW) have confirmed the Big Five publishers’ dominance of the bestseller lists. Although Big Five publishers’ hardcover sales...

2025 Wolfson History Prize goes to Durkin’s “Survivors” 

Cover of Hannah Durkin’s 'Survivors'. Wednesday, 3 December 2025
In the UK, historian Hannah Durkin has won the £50,000 (A$100,570) Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade (William Collins), reported the Bookseller.  The...

PRH’s owner posts small gains in third quarter 

The Bertelsmann Corporate Center in Gütersloh. Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) was among the 4 operating groups contributing to a 0.8% revenue increase in revenue for parent company German-owned Bertelsmann over the first 9 months of 2025,...

Random House acquires Cherry Lake Publishing Group

Cherry Lake logo. Wednesday, 12 November 2025
In the US, Random House Children’s Books (RHCB), a division of Penguin Random House, has acquired children’s publisher Cherry Lake Publishing Group. According to PW, the sale involves approximately 6000...

UNESCO announces new Cities of Literature

Photo of ols building fronting the river in Gdansk, Poland Wednesday, 5 November 2025
The United Nations’ cultural arm UNESCO has announced 10 new Cities of Literature among its latest 58 Creative Cities. Newly designated as Cities of Literature are Aberystwyth (Wales), Abuja (Nigeria),...

IPA launches Defender Award 

Cover of IPA defender's award brochure Wednesday, 15 October 2025
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has launched the IPA Freedom of Expression Defenders Award. “The freedom to publish sits alongside the freedom of expression and the freedom to read as...

HarperCollins UK CEO resigns 

Wednesday, 8 October 2025
HarperCollins UK CEO Charlie Redmayne has resigned effective immediately, reported the Bookseller yesterday. Group managing director, adult commercial publishing Kate Elton has been named interim CEO. Redmayne was appointed as...

Chapter Ukraine launched 

Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Craft magazine and Chytomo have announced the launch of Chapter Ukraine, an interactive digital platform that ‘offers comprehensive information about Ukrainian books available in translation’. The platform features translations of...

Booker Prize 2025 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 24 September 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Booker Prize has been announced. Shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$102,449) prize are six titles: Flashlight (Susan Choi, Jonathan Cape) The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (Kiran...

Trump sues PRH, New York Times

Wednesday, 17 September 2025
US President Donald Trump is suing Penguin Random House (PRH), along with the New York Times (NYT) and several of its reporters for ‘disparagement’, reported Publishers Weekly (PW) yesterday. Among reporters...

S&S CEO to step down, launch Simon Six imprint

a portrait of Jonathan Karp Wednesday, 27 August 2025
In the US, Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp has announced he will step down to launch and lead a new imprint, Simon Six, reported Publishers Weekly (PW) yesterday. Karp will...

Booker Prize 2025 longlist announced

Booker Prize 2025 longlist spread out on a wood table, next to a cup of tea Wednesday, 30 July 2025
The longlist for the 2025 Booker Prize has been announced. Longlisted for the £50,000 (A$102,449) prize are 13 titles: Love Forms (Claire Adam, Faber) The South (Tash Aw, Fourth Estate)...

France: Tax AI to pay cultural remunerations 

Wednesday, 16 July 2025
In France, a new senate report has suggested taxing artificial intelligence suppliers in order to remunerate the cultural sector, should current strategies fail, reported the Bookseller. Negotiations between AI suppliers...

Marsh appointed inaugural Commonwealth Poet Laureate

Selina Tusitala Marsh Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Selina Tusitala Marsh has been appointed the inaugural Commonwealth Poet Laureate, serving until 31 May 2027, reported BookBrunch. Born in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, Marsh is of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English,...

Rocket Entrepreneurs Launch SF Publisher 

A portrait of Chris Larmour Wednesday, 18 June 2025
In the UK, Chris Larmour, founder of Europe's orbital space rocket company Orbex, along with Orbex founding investors Martin Coates and John May, has launched Factorial Books, a digital-first publisher...

Kandrusevich, Strotsev awarded 2025 Prix Voltaire 

Nadia Kandrusevich and Dmitri Strotsev Wednesday, 4 June 2025
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has awarded exiled Belarusian Publishers Nadia Kandrusevich and Dmitri Strotsev the 2025 Prix Voltaire, which supports defenders of freedom to publish. Both Kandrusevich and Strotsey were...

British Book Award winners announced 

the cover of Patriot by Alexei Navalny Wednesday, 14 May 2025
The winners of the 35th British Book Awards, also known as The Nibbies, have been announced. The evening included two special awards: an award for Social Impact presented to Kate...

 

 

 

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