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Sarah Perry's latest non-fiction book Death of an Ordinary Man has been shortlisted for the 2025 Nero Book Award for Non-Fiction. You can see this year's full shortlists here.
Helen Garner has won the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for her collected diaries How To End A Story. The judges said 'How to End a Story is a remarkable, addictive book. Garner takes the diary form, mixing the intimate, the intellectual and the everyday, to new heights. It gives its readers a fascinating insight into the creative reality of a writer’s life – the insecurities, the doubts, the flashes of ego'. You can read the full announcement here.
Helen Garner has been shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for her collected diaries How To End A Story. You can see the full shortlist here.
Michelle de Kretser has been awarded the Prime Minister's Literary Award for her latest novel Theory & Practice. You can read the full announcement here.
The Secret Painter by Joe Tucker has been chosen by Waterstones as their September Book of the Month.
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin has been shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Prize. You can see the full shortlist here.
Melissa Harrison's Homecoming has been shortlisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for illustrated fiction. You can see the full shortlists here.
Comfort by Yotam Ottolenghi has won the Cookery Book Award at the 2025 Guild of Food Writers Awards. You can see the full list of winners here.
Clare Pollard has been awarded the 2025 Tadeusz Bradecki prize for her novel The Modern Fairies. The judges praised for its ‘history and magic, novelistic depth and sharpness of fable'. You can see the full announcement here.
Garry Disher's Sanctuary and Bonnie Burke Patel's I Died At Fallow Hall have both been shortlisted for this years CWA Daggers. You can see the full shortlists here.
We are thrilled that Michelle de Kretser has been awarded the Stella Prize for her novel Theory & Practice. The Stella judges praised it as "a brilliantly auto-fictive knot, composed of the shifting intensities and treacheries of young love, of complex inheritances both literary and maternal, of overwhelming jealousies and dark shivers of shame". Congratulations Michelle.
Bonnie Burke Patel has been shortlisted for the SoA Betty Trask Prize for a first novel by a writer under the age of 35 for her crime debut I Died At Fallow Hall. You can see the full shortlist here.
Clare Pollard has won the inaugural Tadeusz Bradecki prize for her brilliant novel The Modern Fairies. You can read the full announcement here.
Simon Parkin's latest book The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad has been selected as a finalist for this year's Orwell Prize for political writing. You can see the full list of finalists here.
Congratulations to Clare Pollard whose brilliant novel The Modern Fairies has been shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award for the best second novel of the year. You can see the full shortlist here.
Three L&R authors have been longlisted for this year's CWA Daggers. Bonnie Burke Patel is longlisted for the Gold Dagger for her debut novel I Died At Fallow Hall, Hannah Richell is longlisted for the Twisted Dagger for her novel The Search Party and Garry Disher is longlisted for the Steel Dagger for his most recent novel Sanctuary. Congratulations all!
Theory & Practice, the brilliant new novel from Michelle de Kretser has been shortlisted for this year's Stella Prize. Congratulations Michelle! You can see the full shortlist here.
Congratulations to Clare Pollard who has been shortlisted for the 2025 Tadeusz Bradecki Prize for her second novel The Modern Fairies. You can see the full shortlist here.
Georgia Cloepfil has been shortlisted for two 2025 Sports Book Awards - the Sports Writing Award and the Football Book of the Year, for her brilliant book The Striker and the Clock. You can see the full shortlists here.
Congratulations to Tom Lamont who has been longlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award for his debut novel Going Home. You can see the full longlist here.
Sceptre have acquired a 'smart, funny and passionate' book on love from Ella Risbridger. In Love with Love: The Persistence and Joy of Romantic Fiction will be published in November 2025. You can read the full Bookseller announcement here.
Fig Tree have acquired Hunger & Thirst the new novel from Claire Fuller, described as 'an addictively propulsive, richly nuanced and haunting story of horrors without and within'. Fig Tree will publish in February 2026 and you can read the full Bookseller announcement here.
Ruben Reyes Jr has been longlisted for the 2025 PEN Faulkner Award for his collection of short stories There Is A Rio Grande in Heaven. You can see the full longlist here.
Luke Palmer has been longlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing for his brilliant coming of age story Play. You can see the full longlist here.
Fig Tree have acquired Angela Tomaski's debut novel The Infamous Gilberts at auction. Described as a 'story in which the lines between eccentricity and madness and cruelty and love become hilariously, heartbreakingly blurred' the novel will publish in Spring 2026. You can read the full announcement here.
We are thrilled that Enlightenment by Sarah Perry has won the 2024 East Anglian Book Award for Fiction. You can read the full announcement here.
Lucy Hughes Hallett has been awarded the 2024 Biographer's Club Exceptional Contribution to Biography Award. You can read the full announcement here.