World Book Day: Cassie Chadderton puts ambition to create “generations of readers” at the centre of bold new vision
Cassie Chadderton, World Book Day CEO, used today’s keynote speech to tell publishers, booksellers, authors, illustrators, librarians and readers how World Book Day 2021 will go even further to transform lives through shared reading, and why “it’s more important than ever that we get it right”.
Ground-breaking Women Poets’ Prize opens for 2020 submissions
The biennial Women Poets’ Prize, founded by the Rebecca Swift Foundation, launches into its second prize year today.
British Book Awards: Candice Carty-Williams’s passionately published debut wins Book of the Year
The critically acclaimed, prize-winning first novel from Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, has won the prestigious Book of the Year accolade at the 2020 British Book Awards, or Nibbies.