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London Press Club Awards 2026: Full list of winners as 'vintage year for scoops' celebrated

Dozens of the media industry’s most influential figures gathered for the annual awards at Stationer’s Hall

Evening Standard · Oct 21

Your summer reading list: five of the best non-fiction reads of 2026 so far, according to our experts

The best summer companion is a good book. This year has already given us some truly brilliant ones, making it really hard to whittle down the best. These five non-fiction reads will also transport you all over the world – from 1960s India and Afghanistan to Ancient Greece and Hitler’s…

The Conversation · Jul 6

The books everyone will be reading this summer

SUMMER READING: From sun-soaked page-turners to perfect al fresco lunch companions, these are 21 of the hottest reads right now

The Independent UK · Jun 14

Two debut authors win Women’s Prize 2026 for fiction and non-fiction

Two debut books, one about Afghanistan and another an epistolatory novel about the life of a 73-year old woman, have won the 2026 Women’s Prize.

Evening Standard · Jun 11

Women’s prize: Virginia Evans wins for fiction and Lyse Doucet takes award for nonfiction

Evans’s The Correspondent and the BBC journalist’s ‘people’s history’ of modern Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, win £30,000 prizes

The Guardian - UK · Jun 11

Women’s prize for non-fiction: powerful biographies, moving histories and creative approaches to health – six experts review the shortlist

The Women’s prize for non-fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in narrative non-fiction written by women. This prize acknowledges that while great gains have been made in representation for women in fiction, their voices remain systemically underrepresented in non-fiction.

The Conversation · Jun 1

Books by Lyse Doucet and Arundhati Roy make shortlist for Women's Prize for Nonfiction

Two books about hotels in wartime are among finalists for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction

The Independent UK · Mar 25

Arundhati Roy and Lyse Doucet lead ‘exceptional’ Women’s prize for nonfiction shortlist

Roy’s memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me and Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul are joined by books on exile by Ece Temelkuran and Judith Mackrell and an ode to the arts by Daisy Fancourt

The Guardian - UK · Mar 25

Arundhati Roy and Sarah Perry longlisted for Women’s prize for nonfiction

Sixteen authors – including Lea Ypi, Lyse Doucet and Barbara Demick – are in contention for the £30,000 award, launched to address a historic gender imbalance in nonfiction prizes

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11

Nero Book Awards 2025 shortlist announced to celebrate outstanding literary talent

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The Independent UK · Nov 20, 2025