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Prizes
British Fantasy Awards 2025 presented in Brighton
O.O. Sangoyomi's Masquerade won best fantasy novel at the 2025 British Fantasy Awards, presented during the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton.
Fairs and festivals
Green Libraries Week 2025 focuses on climate action
CILIP's Green Libraries Week ran from 27 October to 2 November 2025 across the UK, under the theme Seeds of Change.
Fairs and festivals
Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 grows again, with the Philippines as guest of honour
The 77th Frankfurter Buchmesse ran from 15 to 19 October 2025. The organisers reported 238,000 visitors and 4,350 exhibitors, with the Philippines as guest of honour.
Fairs and festivals
Cheltenham Literature Festival 2025 revives The Big Read
Cheltenham Literature Festival ran from 10 to 19 October 2025 with more than 400 events, four guest curators and the return of its Big Read.
Prizes
László Krasznahorkai is awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, author of Satantango, won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Prizes
Masud Husain's Our Brains, Our Selves wins the Royal Society science book prize
Neurologist Masud Husain's debut, Our Brains, Our Selves, won the £25,000 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize for 2025.
Prizes
Colwill Brown wins the BBC National Short Story Award in its 20th year
Colwill Brown won the 2025 BBC National Short Story Award and £15,000 for You Cannot Thread a Moving Needle, written in South Yorkshire dialect.
Industry
Court gives preliminary approval to $1.5bn Anthropic settlement with authors
A US judge has preliminarily approved a $1.5bn class settlement between Anthropic and authors over books downloaded from pirate libraries.
Prizes
Six novels make the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist
Kiran Desai, David Szalay and Andrew Miller were among six established novelists on the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist, which contained no debuts.
Prizes
Raising Hare wins the Wainwright Prize book of the year
Chloe Dalton's debut, Raising Hare, won the 2025 Wainwright Prize for nature writing and the overall book of the year award.
Fairs and festivals
Super Thursday 2025 set to be the lightest on record
The Bookseller reported that Super Thursday 2025 would be the lightest since the phenomenon was identified, as big publishers cut autumn output by 10%.
Prizes
The Tainted Cup wins the Hugo Award for best novel
Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup won the Hugo for best novel at Seattle Worldcon 2025.
Fairs and festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025 takes Repair as its theme
The Edinburgh International Book Festival ran from 9 to 24 August 2025 under the theme Repair, with 641 writers from 35 countries.
Prizes
The Booker Prize 2025 longlist is announced
Thirteen novels, including new work by Kiran Desai, Tash Aw and David Szalay, made the 2025 Booker Prize longlist chosen by a panel chaired by Roddy Doyle.
Industry
2026 named a National Year of Reading
The Education Secretary has announced a National Year of Reading for 2026, delivered with the National Literacy Trust.
Prizes
Anna Mazzola wins the 2025 CWA Gold Dagger for Book of Secrets
Anna Mazzola's Book of Secrets, set in seventeenth-century Rome, has won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger for the best crime novel of the year.
Industry
European Accessibility Act requirements apply, including to ebooks
From 28 June 2025 the European Accessibility Act's requirements apply across the EU, and ebooks and e-commerce are among the services covered.
Prizes
Sierra Greer's Annie Bot wins the Arthur C. Clarke Award
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer, published by The Borough Press, won the 2025 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction.
Prizes
Victoria Amelina wins the Orwell Prize for Political Writing posthumously
Looking at Women, Looking at War by Victoria Amelina, who was killed in 2023, won the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
Industry
US court rules on AI training and pirated books in Bartz v. Anthropic
A US federal judge has held that training an AI model on lawfully bought books was fair use, but that keeping pirated copies was not.