Stuart wins Booker Prize for ‘Shuggie Bain’
Friday, 20 November 2020
Scottish author Douglas Stuart has won the £50,000 (A$91,100) Booker Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain (Picador), reports the Bookseller. Stuart’s novel, based on his own childhood, tells the...
Pearson creates direct-to-consumer division
Thursday, 19 November 2020
Pearson has announced the creation of a new direct-to-consumer division, focused on direct-to-consumer products and channels. 'With the accelerating interest in digital learning across the globe, we need to meet...
Bologna moves to June; plans new general publishing exhibit
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
The Bologna Children’s Book Fair has changed its dates for next year’s fair from April to June 14-17. Director Elena Pasoli said pushing the fair back ‘gives us the valuable...
UK book sales down 11% for first half
Monday, 16 November 2020
In the UK, stats from the Publishers Association (PA) show that total book sales across the industry fell 11% in the first six months of the year, reports the Bookseller....
WHSmith posts £69 million loss
Friday, 13 November 2020
UK book chain WHSmith has recorded a £69 million (A$125m) headline loss in preliminary results announced for the year ended 31 August. The company made a £31 million (A$56m) group...
Harrison wins Goldsmiths Prize for ‘The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again’
Thursday, 12 November 2020
In the UK, M John Harrison has won the £10,000 (A$18,165) Goldsmiths Prize for The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again (Gollancz), reports the Bookseller. Harrison’s novel is described as ‘a genre-blurring...
Thammavongsa wins Canada’s $100k Giller Prize
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
In Canada, Souvankham Thammavongsa has won this year’s C$100,000 (A$106,150) Giller Prize for her short story collection How to Pronounce Knife (Bloomsbury). Of Thammavongsa’s collection, the prize jury said: ‘How...
FutureBook Conference to run as virtual event
Tuesday, 10 November 2020
This year’s FutureBook Conference, run by the UK’s Bookseller, will run as a virtual event from 16–20 November. The program includes more than 40 sessions and 100 speakers, including the...
UK audiobook sales surge in lockdown
Monday, 9 November 2020
In the UK, audiobook sales are expected to show 15.8% growth in volume by the end of the year according to Nielsen, reports the Bookseller. Nielsen projected UK audiobook sales...
LBF moved to June 2021; new director named
Thursday, 5 November 2020
In the UK, the London Book Fair (LBF) has announced next year’s event will take place from 29 June to 1 July, according to the Bookseller. The fair was originally scheduled...
Bookshop.org makes £65,000 in UK launch
Wednesday, 4 November 2020
In the UK, online retailer Bookshop.org made sales of around £65,000 (A$119,000) in its first day of trade on 2 November, reports the Bookseller. Around 150 independent bookshops have signed...
French bookshops to re-enter lockdown
Friday, 30 October 2020
French bookshops and libraries will close for at least 15 days from 30 October, as the country enters a second lockdown to curb the rise in Covid-19 cases, reports the...
‘Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands’ wins Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
In the UK, Hazel V Carby has won the £25,000 (A$46,750) Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Verso), reports the Bookseller....
‘Hello Friend We Missed You’ wins 2020 Not the Booker
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Welsh writer Richard Owain Roberts has won the Guardian’s 2020 Not the Booker Prize for his debut novel Hello Friend We Missed You (Parthian Books). Roberts’ novel won the public vote...
Bird’s ‘The Air Year’ wins Forward Poetry Prize
Monday, 26 October 2020
In the UK, Caroline Bird’s poetry collection The Air Year (Carcanet) has won the £10,000 (A$18,320) Forward Prize for best poetry collection, reports the Bookseller. Judging panel chair Alexandra Harris described...
Two in three UK authors, illustrators report loss of income
Thursday, 22 October 2020
In the UK, a Society of Authors (SoA) survey of the financial impact of Covid-19 has found 65% of authors, illustrators and literary translators have reported a loss of income—up...
US$75k Cundill History Prize 2020 finalists announced
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
The three finalists for the Cundill History Prize have been announced. Chosen from a shortlist of 10, the finalists are: Tacky’s Revolt: The story of an Atlantic slave war (Vincent Brown,...
Davies, Al-Kadhi win 2020 Polari Prizes
Friday, 16 October 2020
In the UK, writers Kate Davies and Amrou Al-Kadhi have won the 2020 Polari Prizes for work that explores the LGBT experience, reports the Bookseller. Davies won the £2000 (A$3640) Polari...
Glück awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature
Friday, 9 October 2020
American poet Louise Glück has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature, reports Publishers Weekly. Glück was named winner at a ceremony at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on...
National Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
In the US, the shortlists for the 2020 National Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Leave the World Behind (Rumaan Alam, Bloomsbury) A...
Serpell wins 2020 Arthur C Clarke Award for ‘The Old Drift’
Friday, 2 October 2020
Zambian author Namwali Serpell has won the 2020 Arthur C Clarke award for science-fiction for her debut novel The Old Drift (Vintage), reports the Guardian. The Old Drift, described as ‘a...
Proportion of UK YA writers of colour doubles since 2017
Thursday, 1 October 2020
In the UK, a study has found the proportion of authors of colour writing YA in the UK has more than doubled since 2017, reports the Guardian. According to research...
UK, North American bodies form green book supply chain alliance
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
The UK’s Book Industry Communication (BIC) has formed an international green book supply chain alliance with Canada’s BookNet and US body the Book Industry Study Group, reports the Bookseller. Under...
Children’s nonfiction sales boom in UK
Friday, 25 September 2020
In the UK, Nielsen data shows sales of children’s books have boomed during 2020 due to nonfiction sales, reports the Bookseller. According to Nielsen media manager Philip Stone, children’s nonfiction...
HarperCollins, S&S add diversity-focused directors
Monday, 21 September 2020
In the US, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster (S&S) have both announced new diversity-focused directorial positions, reports Publishing Perspectives. HarperCollins has appointed Gisselda Nuñez to the role of vice-president for diversity,...
PRH to publish first volume of Obama memoir in November
Friday, 18 September 2020
Penguin Random House will publish the first volume of former US president Barack Obama’s memoir, A Promised Land, globally on 17 November. According to the publisher, the book, which will...
Booker Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Booker Prize has been announced. The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$90,000) prize are: The New Wilderness (Diane Cook, Oneworld) This Mournable Body (Tsitsi Dangarembga, Faber)...
Daunt outlines plan for Barnes & Noble
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
In the US, Barnes & Noble (B&N) CEO James Daunt has outlined his strategy for the bookselling chain in a virtual Q&A with Book Industry Study Group executive director Brian...
Bookshop.org launches in the UK
Monday, 14 September 2020
In the UK, Bookshop.org, a retail site for independent booksellers, has launched to the trade ahead of its planned opening to consumers in November, reports the Bookseller. UK bookshops can...
McAnulty wins nature writing prize for ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’
Friday, 11 September 2020
In the UK, Dara McAnulty has been awarded the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing for Diary of A Young Naturalist (Text). According to the Bookseller, McAnulty, 16, is the...
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