News - Book Awards

Friday, August 22, 2025

Songlight by Moira Buffini has won the YA Book Prize 2025. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where an advanced form of telepathy known as songlight has emerged, the story follows two young women, Lark and Nightingale, who must hide their power of songlight from their oppressive society....

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

The Little Rebels Award shortlist for 2025 has been announced and includes six books that will "speak to a generation of young activists and critical thinkers" say its organisers. The award is a prize for radical fiction aimed at children aged 0-12. It is give...

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

The Diverse Book Awards returns for its sixth year to highlight inclusive, empowering, and representative books published in the UK and Ireland. The award attracted over 250 submissions across four categories - Picture Books, Children's, YA and Adult Fiction - marking a record-breaking celebra...

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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Margaret McDonald's Glasgow Boys has scored a hat trick with its third top literature award this year, winning the Branford Boase Award 2025 for outstanding debut writers and their editors. Editors Alice Swan and Ama Badu, who edited Glasgow Boys, wer...

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Friday, June 20, 2025

Colette Hiller has been announced as the winner of the 2025 CLiPPA children's poetry award for her collection Colossal Words for Kids, illustrated by Tor Freeman (Frances Lincoln Children's Books).  In Colossal Words for Kids, Hiller defines in rhyme 75 'colossa...

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Thursday, June 19, 2025

The winners of the UK's longest-running book awards for children and young people, The Carnegies, were announced today at a ceremony in London. Debut author Margaret McDonald has won the Carnegie Medal for Writing for her "life changing and emotional" novel <a h...

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

The 12 shortlisted titles for the Information Book Award (IBA) have been announced by the School Library Association (SLA) and include a diverse range of information books that provide readers with new ways of looking at the world around them. 

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Monday, June 9, 2025

The Federation of Children's Book Groups has announced the Overall Winner of the 2025 Children's Book Award: I Am Rebel by Ross Montgomery. The Children's Book Award, now in its 45th year, is the only national award voted for entirely by children.

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