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Prizes
Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 shortlist is announced
Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout are shortlisted alongside four debut novelists for the 30th Women's Prize for Fiction.
Fairs and festivals
Bologna Children's Book Fair 2025 reports a rise in trade visitors
The 62nd Bologna Children's Book Fair ran from 31 March to 3 April 2025, with Estonia as guest of honour and 33,318 trade visitors.
Industry
WHSmith agrees sale of its high street shops to Modella Capital
WH Smith PLC has agreed to sell its UK high street business to Modella Capital, which plans to rebrand the shops as TGJones.
Fairs and festivals
London Book Fair 2025 returns to Olympia with AI on the agenda
The London Book Fair ran at Olympia from 11 to 13 March 2025, with artificial intelligence and young people's reading among the main themes.
Fairs and festivals
World Book Day 2025 in the UK and Ireland
World Book Day 2025 fell on Thursday 6 March, with £1/€1.50 tokens exchangeable for specially published books.
Prizes
International Booker Prize 2025 longlist is announced
Thirteen translated books, all by authors nominated for the first time, made the 2025 International Booker Prize longlist chaired by Max Porter.
Industry
Copyright and AI consultation closes as newspapers campaign
The UK consultation on copyright and AI closed on 25 February 2025, the day most national newspapers ran the Make It Fair campaign on their front pages.
Industry
Independent bookshop numbers fall slightly in 2024
The Booksellers Association reports 1,052 independent bookshops in membership at the end of 2024, down from 1,063, with 45 new shops opening.
Industry
UK print book market dipped slightly in 2024, Nielsen data shows
NielsenIQ BookScan data show UK print book sales fell 0.6% in value and 1.7% in volume in 2024, while adult fiction grew.
Industry
Public Lending Right rate set at 11.76p per loan
The government has confirmed a Public Lending Right rate of 11.76p per loan for the 2023/24 scheme year, down from 13.69p.
Industry
UK government opens consultation on copyright and AI
The UK government has launched a consultation on copyright and artificial intelligence, including a proposed text and data mining exception with an opt-out.
Industry
EU General Product Safety Regulation now applies to books
The EU's General Product Safety Regulation applies from 13 December 2024, bringing new traceability and contact duties for books sold into the EU.
Industry
ALCS survey sets out writers' views on AI training
An ALCS survey of more than 13,500 writers finds most want to be asked, and paid, before their work is used to train AI.
Prizes
Butter by Asako Yuzuki is Waterstones Book of the Year 2024
Waterstones named Butter by Asako Yuzuki, translated from Japanese by Polly Barton, its Book of the Year 2024.
Prizes
Nelly Sachs's collected poems win the 2024 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Revelation Freshly Erupting, Andrew Shanks's translation of Nelly Sachs's poetry, has won the 2024 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
Prizes
Percival Everett wins the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction for James
Percival Everett's James, a retelling of Huckleberry Finn from Jim's point of view, has won the US National Book Award for Fiction.
Prizes
Richard Flanagan wins the Baillie Gifford Prize, with a condition attached
Richard Flanagan won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7 but said he would not take the £50,000 until the sponsor set out a fossil fuel plan.
Prizes
Samantha Harvey wins the 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital
Orbital, a 136-page novel set aboard the International Space Station, won the £50,000 Booker Prize at a ceremony in London.
Prizes
Rachel Cusk wins the Goldsmiths Prize 2024 for Parade
Rachel Cusk's Parade won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize, which rewards fiction that breaks the mould of the novel.
Prizes
A City on Mars wins the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's A City on Mars won the £25,000 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize for 2024.