November December 2025

Lyndal Roper has won the 2025 US$75,000 Cundill History Prize for Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War. (John Murray Press / Basic Books).Fellow finalists, Marlene L. Daut and Sophia Rosenfeld, will each be awarded US$10,000.…

The Philippines’ Guest of Honour presentation at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025 featured more than 100 authors, illustrators, creatives and diverse voices from across the archipelago. At the fair, the Guest of honour handover ceremony was held,…

On November 17-18, the IPA Educational Publishers Forum was held in Antwerp and was hosted by the IPA member, the Flemish Educational and Scientific Publishers Association (GEWU). Later in November, the African EPF held an online meeting.…

The London Book Fair (LBF) has revealed the Authors of the Fair line-up for 2026, as well as their first ever Narrator of the Fair.The line-up will feature: author, illustrator and creator of the sensational Heartstopper series Alice…

The Sharjah Publishing Sustainability Fund (Onshur), founded by Her Highness Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairperson of the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), has launched the ‘Disrupt’ track, the region’s first platform that brings…

Technology is no longer just influencing publishing; it is reshaping its very foundations. The emergence of digital-native formats signal a profound shift in how stories are created, discovered, and consumed. It is transforming publishing…