News
Announcements from the press, and the book-world news we think is worth passing on.
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Press
Dreamscape Code is published on 10 October
Nima Golsharifi's novel arrives on 10 October 2026 in hardback, paperback, ebook and audiobook, from bookshops and online retailers.
Press
Gravity Doesn't Vote is in preparation
The second book on the list is being written: a study of why some facts survive disbelief and others don't.
Press
Open for design and editing commissions
We are taking on cover design, typesetting, editing and publishing work for other authors and presses.
Prizes
The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist is announced
Marlon James, Douglas Stuart, Elizabeth Strout, M John Harrison, Luke Kennard and debut novelist Rebecca Perry are on the 2026 Booker Prize shortlist.
Prizes
Alix E. Harrow's The Everlasting wins the Hugo Award
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow won the Hugo for best novel at LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention.
Fairs and festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2026 asks audiences to change their minds
The Edinburgh International Book Festival ran from 15 to 30 August 2026 under the theme Changing Your Mind, with almost 600 writers from 41 countries.
Prizes
E.J. Swift wins the 40th Arthur C. Clarke Award
E.J. Swift's When There Are Wolves Again, published by Arcadia, won the 2026 Arthur C. Clarke Award in London.
Prizes
Two former winners lead the Booker Prize 2026 longlist
Marlon James and Douglas Stuart, both past winners, are among thirteen writers on the 2026 Booker Prize longlist chosen by a panel chaired by Mary Beard.
Prizes
Karen Bartlett wins the 2026 Orwell Prize for Political Writing
Karen Bartlett's The Escape from Kabul won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and Ben Lerner's Transcription the prize for political fiction.
Prizes
Beth O'Brien's debut Wolf Siren wins the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Writing
Beth O'Brien's first novel, Wolf Siren, a reworking of Red Riding Hood, has won both the Carnegie Medal for Writing and the Shadowers' Choice Medal.
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Harriet Armstrong, Vijay Khurana and Gurnaik Johal among the 2026 Society of Authors' Award winners
Harriet Armstrong won the Betty Trask Prize and Vijay Khurana the McKitterick Prize at the 2026 Society of Authors' Awards.
Fairs and festivals
Independent Bookshop Week reaches its twentieth year
Independent Bookshop Week 2026 ran from 13 to 20 June, the campaign's 20th anniversary, with 20 Bookshop Champions named for the occasion.
Prizes
Alice Jolly wins the 2026 Walter Scott Prize for The Matchbox Girl
Alice Jolly's The Matchbox Girl, set in 1930s Vienna, has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
Prizes
Virginia Evans wins the Women's Prize for Fiction 2026
The Correspondent, a debut novel told in letters, won the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction and its £30,000 award.
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Lyse Doucet wins the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2026
The BBC's chief international correspondent won the 2026 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction with The Finest Hotel in Kabul, her first book.
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Diana Evans, Maggie Harris and Fidan Meikle win the 2026 Jhalak Prizes
The 2026 Jhalak Prizes went to Diana Evans for prose, Maggie Harris for poetry and Fidan Meikle for children's and young adult writing.
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Stephen Graham Jones wins the Nebula for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
The 61st Nebula Awards, presented in Chicago, gave best novel to Stephen Graham Jones for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
Industry
UK publishing income reaches a record £7.4bn in 2025
Publishers Association figures show UK publishing income of £7.4bn in 2025, with digital audiobooks up 10% and print holding steady.
Prizes
Locus Awards 2026: Okorafor, Harrow and Jones win the novel categories
Nnedi Okorafor, Alix E. Harrow and Stephen Graham Jones won the 2026 Locus Awards for science fiction, fantasy and horror novels.
Fairs and festivals
Hay Festival 2026 aligns with the National Year of Reading
Hay Festival's 39th spring edition ran in Hay-on-Wye from 21 to 31 May 2026, with more than 500 events.