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Locus Awards 2025: Boldizar and Kingfisher take the novel prizes
The 2025 Locus Awards went to Alexander Boldizar for science fiction and T. Kingfisher for fantasy, with Chuck Tingle winning horror.
Industry
Data (Use and Access) Act receives Royal Assent after AI copyright dispute
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 19 June 2025, with duties to report on copyright and AI rather than transparency rules.
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Margaret McDonald becomes the youngest winner of the Carnegie Medal for Writing
Margaret McDonald, 27, has won the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing for Glasgow Boys, becoming the youngest winner in the medal's history.
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Publishers Association figures: fiction and audiobooks drove growth in 2024
Publishers Association figures put UK publishing income at £7.2bn in 2024, with fiction passing £1bn and audiobook revenue up 31%.
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Ashani Lewis takes two prizes at the 2025 Society of Authors' Awards
Ashani Lewis won both the Betty Trask Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for Winter Animals at the 2025 Society of Authors' Awards.
Fairs and festivals
A record number of bookshops take part in Independent Bookshop Week 2025
Independent Bookshop Week ran from 14 to 21 June 2025, with a record 751 independent bookshops taking part, according to The Bookseller.
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Andrew Miller wins the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for The Land in Winter
Andrew Miller's The Land in Winter, set during the harsh winter of 1962-63, has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
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Yael van der Wouden wins the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
The Safekeep, a debut set in the Netherlands in 1961, won the thirtieth Women's Prize for Fiction and its £30,000 award.
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Rachel Clarke wins the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025
The Story of a Heart, a doctor's account of a transplant between two children, won the second Women's Prize for Non-Fiction.
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John Wiswell wins the Nebula Award for best novel
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell won the Nebula for best novel at the 60th Nebula Awards in Kansas City.
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N.S. Nuseibeh, Mimi Khalvati and Nathanael Lessore win the 2025 Jhalak Prizes
The 2025 Jhalak Prizes went to N.S. Nuseibeh for prose, Mimi Khalvati for poetry and Nathanael Lessore for children's and young adult writing.
Industry
Children's reading enjoyment at its lowest in 20 years, survey finds
National Literacy Trust research finds only 32.7% of 8 to 18-year-olds enjoyed reading in their free time in 2025, the lowest level in 20 years.
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Translated books win both James Tait Black Prizes for the first time
Lucas Rijneveld's My Heavenly Favourite and Lamia Ziadé's My Great Arab Melancholy won the 2025 James Tait Black Prizes, shared with their translators.
Fairs and festivals
Hay Festival 2025 opens its 38th edition
Hay Festival's 38th edition ran in Hay-on-Wye from 22 May to 1 June 2025, with more than 600 events and themes including AI and new political orders.
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Heart Lamp wins the International Booker Prize 2025
Banu Mushtaq's Heart Lamp, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, is the first short story collection to win the International Booker Prize.
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Yasmin Zaher wins the 2025 Dylan Thomas Prize for The Coin
Yasmin Zaher's debut novel The Coin has won the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded to writers aged 39 or under.
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Alexei Navalny's Patriot named Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2025
Patriot, Alexei Navalny's memoir, won Overall Book of the Year at the British Book Awards on 12 May 2025.
Industry
US Copyright Office publishes report on generative AI training
The US Copyright Office has released a pre-publication version of Part 3 of its AI report, on the use of copyright works to train generative AI.
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Percival Everett's James wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
James, Percival Everett's retelling of Huckleberry Finn, has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, adding to its National Book Award.
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International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist is all independent presses
For the first time, every book on the International Booker Prize shortlist came from an independent publisher.