Events

• Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2018

  Monday, 14 May 2018
  Location: Travellers Club
  

  £10,000 for a book that evokes the spirit of a place

• CrimeFest 2018

  Thursday, 17 May 2018 to Sunday, 20 May 2018
  
  

  The Bristol-based crime festival. Guests include Lee Child and Jeffery Deaver

• Man Booker International Prize dinner 2018

  Tuesday, 22 May 2018
  Location: Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  

  £50,000 divided between author and translator; £1,000 for each shortlisted author and translator

• Selling rights short course June 2018

  Monday, 04 June 2018 to Tuesday, 05 June 2018
  Location: Senate House
  

  Two-day course with industry experts Juliet Pickering, Lynette Owen, Diane Spivey

• Wolfson History Prize 2018

  Monday, 04 June 2018
  Location: Claridge's
  

  Worth £40,000 to the winner; shortlisted runners-up get £4,000 each

• Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

  Wednesday, 06 June 2018
  
  

  Worth £30,000 to the winner

• IBBY agm 2018

  Sunday, 10 June 2018
  Location: Black Cultural Archives
  

  With a talk by author and historian Steve Martin

• Independent Bookshop Week 2018

  Saturday, 16 June 2018 to Saturday, 23 June 2018
  
  

  Part of the Books Are My Bag campaign, and celebrating independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland

• Guild of Food Writers Awards 2018

  Monday, 18 June 2018
  Location: Opera Holland Park, London
  

  Including Cookery Book, First Book, and Food Book awards

• Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals 2018 prize ceremony

  Monday, 18 June 2018
  Location: British Library, London
  

  The most prestigious children's book prizes in the UK