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Launched in 2014, the YA Book Prize has been celebrating young people's favourite writers for a decade. This year, an Arthurian-inspired queer tale came out on top Lex Croucher has [...]

Granta magazine this week published the latest iteration of its influential, once-in-a-decade list of the Best of Young British Novelists under the age of 40, outlining a new generation of [...]

To the Big W's Piccadilly flagship for the inaugural Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize--the Bea-cons or the Carvalhos, ceremony-goers were sharply divided on which nickname to use--a welcome fillip to our [...]

Douglas Stuart has won Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, triumphing with his 'truly exceptional' debut novel, Shuggie Bain (Picador). Others winners at the virtual ceremony (held [...]

Alice Oseman has scooped the YA Book Prize 2021 with her 'joyful' coming-out story about a romance-obsessed teenager who realises that she is a romantic and asexual. Loveless (HarperCollins Children's [...]

Anthony McGowan and Shaun Tan this week won the CILIP Carnegie Medal and Kate Greenaway Medal respectively for their books; McGowan's about two siblings lost on the moors, and Tan's [...]

Pratt Honors 'Legends' at Annual Gala ROSEMARY FEITELBERG NEW YORK Pratt Institute's four Legends 2013 honorees shared fool-proof advice Monday at the school's annual gala at the Mandarin Oriental hotel [...]

Booksellers have welcomed Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize win for novel The Luminaries (Granta). Independents said they they expected the book to prove a strong seller with customers, despite some [...]

Debut novelist AliceLaPlante has won the [pounds sterling] 25,000 Wellcome Trust Book Prize for Tuni of Mind (Harvill Seeker), awarded on 4th November. She beat Philip Roth on a shortlist [...]

Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, but few British readers could name other Arab writers, largely because translations into English are so rare. This [...]

Despite glowing reviews and two Man Booker Prize shortlistings (for The Riders and Dirt Music), Australian novelist Tim Winton has never achieved the size of readership in this country that [...]

Roddy Doyle and Fintan O'Toole were among the winners at this week's Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2013. Doyle's The Guts (Cape) was named Eason Novel of the Year, [...]

Kate Atkinson joins an all-female shortlist for the Costa Novel Award, one of the five shortlists for the Costa Book Awards announced this week. Alongside Atkinson, shortlisted for Life After [...]

After The Bookseller Industry Awards last Monday I scarcely thought I would attend a more glamorous evening this year, let alone one in the same week. I had not counted [...]

Deborah Moggach right and Helen DeWitt have been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, which has been won only once by a woman (Marina Lewycka) in [...]

Man Booker and Costa Prize winner Hilary Mantel could be in line for another prize for Bring Up the Bodies (Fourth Estate), after scoring a place on the Independent Booksellers [...]

Hilary Mantel (left) has been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2012 for her Man Booker-winning Bring Up the Bodies (Fourth Estate). Other nominations include two graphic novels by Joff [...]

Debut novelist Maggie Shipstead has won the 30,000 [pounds sterling] University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize with her novel Seating Arrangements (Blue Door). Judge Allison Pearson said: 'The smart money [...]

Last week we asked online: Mantel's Booker double is good for ... YOU SAID 45% HarperCollins 19% Bookshops 36% Historical fiction Note: Table made from bar [...]

Inspector Morse author Colin Dexter is to receive an Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakstsons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, as the shortlist for its crime novel [...]

Rosamund Lupton. has hailed self-published authors at an event to mark half a million sales of her debut. Sister (Piatkus). Speaking at the ceremony to receive a Nielsen Gold Award [...]

Andrew Miller became the latest Winner of the Costa Book of the Year award last week but what does this mean for booksellers? First, sales of Miller's winning tome, Pure [...]

Lucy Caldwell has been awarded the [pounds sterling] 30,000 University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize for her novel, The Meeting Point (Faber). The prize, now in its fourth year, was [...]

Debut author Tea Obreht has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Tiger's Wife (W&N), beating the bookies' favourite, Emma Donoghue's Man Booker-shortlisted Room (Picador). Obreht, aged 25, is [...]

Helen Dunmore's The Betrayal has made it onto the shortlist of the Orwell Prize for political writing, the first novel to be shortlisted since 2008. The winners of book, blog [...]

Debut novelists Manu Joseph and Sam Leith have been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. The prize celebrates the novel of the last 12 months that best captures the [...]

Man Booker shortlistee Emma Donoghue has been longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011. The 20-strong list was released on Wednesday [15th March] and includes Joanna Kavenna, who won [...]

Two Faber titles have made the six-strong shortlist for the [pounds sterling]50,000 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing. Derek Walcott's TS Eliot Prize-winning collection White Egrets and Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted [...]

Lucy Christopher has won this year's Branford Boase Award for her novel Stolen, published by Chicken House. The award recognised debut writers and their editors and is supported by former [...]

Atlantic author and former bookseller and librarian Ali Shaw has been named the winner of the [pounds sterling]10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for The Girl with the Glass Feet. She beat [...]

Paulo Coelho, Neil Gaiman and Emily Benet are among the 28 authors shortlisted for the inaugural Author Blog Awards, run by CompletelyNovel.com and former SYP chair Jon Slack, with publishers [...]

Hilary Mantel, Sarah Waters and Barbara Kingsolver have made the longlist for the 2010 Orange Prize, a 20-strong list described by chair Daisy Goodwin as 'muscular, original and pleasurable'. Andrea [...]

CrimeFest, the annual crime-writing festival, has revealed the shortlist for its Last Laugh Award. Chris Ewan's The Good Thief's Guide to Paris is up against titles from Colin Bateman, Malcolm [...]

The Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) has created a new set of awards in celebration of its 50th anniversary. The Pure Passion Awards, which will take place on 16th March at [...]

Val McDermid has won this year's Crime Writers Association (CWA) Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, which honours outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing. McDermid was inducted into the Hall [...]

Neil Gaiman, the cult adult and children's author, has won the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009 for his novel about Nobody 'Bod' Owens, a young boy abandoned in a graveyard. Gaiman's [...]

The Bad Sex Award is no respecter of literary reputations and this year's shortlist features Man Booker winner John Banville, American literary giant Philip Roth and eminent Israeli writer Amos [...]

Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book published in the UK by Bloomsbury has won the Best Novel award at the Hugo Awards for science fiction and fantasy. Gaiman won the Newbery [...]

Veteran Irish novelist Edna O'Brien was honoured at this year's Irish Book Awards with the Bob Hughes LifetimeAchievement Award. O'Brien is the author of 14 novels and five collections of [...]

Simon & Schuster has reprinted 10,000 copies of Olive Kitteridge, after the collection of short stories won the Pulitzer Prize this week. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was announced on [...]

The shortlist for the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) 2009 Romantic Novel of the Year has been revealed, with indie Allison & Busby on the list. Sophia's Secret from A&B by [...]

Cecelia Ahern, Sophie Kinsella and Victoria Hislop have all made the longlist for the Romantic Novel of the Year 2009, hosted by the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA). Ahern's Thanks for [...]

Stef Penney has taken this year's Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for The Tenderness of Wolves (Quercus), beating Simon Beckett and Mark Billingham, among others. Announced [...]

Anne Enright has followed last year's Man Booker win by securing the Irish Novel of the Year award for The Gathering (Cape) at this year's Irish Book Awards. The awards [...]

The shortlists have been unveiled for this year's CILIP Carnegie Medal for children's writing and Kate Greenaway Medal for illustrated children's books. The Carnegie shortlist has an international flavour with [...]

Lloyd Jones has won the 10,000 £ Wales Book of the Year award for his second novel, Mr Cassini (Seren).The book, described by Jones as an 'anti-novel', beat off competition [...]

Newcomers dominate this year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction shortlist. Novelists with debut or second books on the list are Kiran Desai, with The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton), which [...]

Caption: Pen name: bestselling Irish novelist Maeve Binchy has won the Irish PEN/A T Cross Award for Literature, established in 1921. The annual prize celebrates a lifetime of literary achievement [...]

Sarah Waters is the early favourite to win this year's Orange Prize for Fiction following the announcement of the shortlist on Wednesday. Her novel The Night Watch (Virago) is at [...]

The shortlist for the Foster Grant Reading Glasses Roman-tic Novel of the Year Award has been announced, and it includes only the fifth man in 46 years nominated for the [...]