Sofia looks at the tradition of afternoon tea, at home and in London's many elegant tea rooms.
Author Richard Beard, Director of the National Academy of Writing, explains how the popularity of eBooks is making video an essential component.
The Arthur C Clarke Award, funded by a grant from the SF legend, is the UK's foremost literary prize for science fiction literature.
The Blue Peter Book Awards were set up in 2000 with the aim of guiding children towards the very best in children’s literature and encouraging them to become readers for life. They are run in association with the BBC’s long-running children’s magazine programme, Blue Peter, and administered by Book Trust.
Among the other prizes it awards, the national independent charity Book Trust has two dedicated children’s book awards of its own, the Book Trust Early Years Awards and the Book Trust Teenage Prize, both aimed at bringing books to as wide a range of young readers as possible.
The Carnegie Medal was first awarded in 1936, having been established in memory of Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish-born industrialist and philanthropist. The winner receives a gold medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a school or public library of their choice.
The Commonwealth Book Prize was set up in 1987 to find a wider readership for fiction by authors from the Commonwealth nations. The overall winner is chosen from the four Regional Winners, representing Africa, Europe and South Asia, the Caribbean and Canada, and South East Asia and the South Pacific.
The Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards) have five categories - Novel, First Novel, Poetry, Biography and Children's - with an overall winner selected from the five category winners. They reward books that combine literary merit with a broad appeal.
A biennial prize for a first novel written in English and published in the UK. The prize is named after the literary agent and publisher, Desmond Elliott.
Foyles is now the proud sponsor of the Best Book of Ideas Prize at the annual Bristol Festival of Ideas.
The Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award is awarded for books offering compelling and enjoyable insights into modern business.
The Galaxy British Book Awards, known in the book trade as the Nibbies, are a series of awards made to authors who have had a notable impact on the UK book market.
The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is named in honour of the founder of the famous publisher and is awarded in alternate years to fiction and poetry.
The Guardian First Book Award rewards new talent in both fiction and non-fiction. Books are nominated by reviewers for The Guardian, the longlist is whittled down by members of the public and the winner is selected by a panel of leading figures in the arts.
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, launched by Dublin City Council in 1996, is the world's richest literary award for a single title, and is open to fiction published both in English and in other languages and translated into English.
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is the only major literary award in the UK dedicated to fiction in translation.
The James Tait Black Prizes are Britain’s oldest literary award and among the most respected. They were first presented in 1919, given respectively to works of Fiction and Biography written in English and published in the previous calendar year.
The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was established in 1942 by Jane Oliver in memory of a young pilot killed two years earlier. It rewards a work of literature published in the United Kingdom by a Commonwealth author under the age of 35 writing in English and the prize is £5000.
The Kate Greenaway Medal, first awarded in 1955, rewards the outstanding illustration of a children’s book. It is named after the distinguished Victorian book illustrator of the same name.
SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED! The Man Asian Literary Prize was established in 2007 to broaden knowledge of contemporary Asian literature both across the continent and globally.
The Booker prize was first awarded in 1969. It has been sponsored by Man Group plc since 2002, when it was renamed the Man Booker Prize. It is arguably the most well known literary prize in the UK.
The Muslim Writers Awards were founded in 2006 to harness creative talent and nurture aspiring writers within the Muslim community.
The National Book Awards are amongst America’s most significant literary prizes, rivalling the Pulitzer Prizes for their impact. They have been running since 1950 and are open to American citizens for books published in the United States in the period between December of the previous year and the following November.
The Nobel Prize for Literature is one of the five awards established by the will of Swedish scientist and inventor Alfred Nobel, and is perhaps the world’s most prestigious literary award.
Launched in 1996, the prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world.
The Orwell Prize is Britain's most high-profile prize for political writing, set up in 1994 by Orwell biographer Bernard Crick.
Voted on by writers, the PEN/Faulkner Award was set up to encourage new voices in American fiction.
The Pulitzer Prizes were set up by Columbia University in 1917 to reward excellence in journalism and the arts. Twenty-one prizes are awarded each year, of which six are directly relevant to the book world: those for Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Biography & Autobiography, History and General Non-Fiction.
The Roald Dahl Funny Prize was set up in 2008 to promote the feel-good factor when reading, to boost the profile of humorous books and to encourage family togetherness through sharing funny books.
These awards celebrate finest romantic fiction, both published and unpublished, recognising the full diversity of categories with the genre.
The Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, the 'Booker Prize of science writing', was set up in 1988 to encourage the writing, publishing and reading of good and accessible popular science books.
The BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is open to authors of all non-fiction books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts.
The T S Eliot Prize is an annual prize for a poetry collection awarded by the Poetry Book Society, which was established in 1953 by T S Eliot himself.
Come and meet the authors shortlisted for this year's Authors Club debut novel prize....
In this exclusive interview for Foyles to celebrate the publication of Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary talks about her fascination with Thomas Cromwell and the corrupting effects of power.
WINNER ANNOUNCED! 80-year-old Aharon Appelfeld wins for Blooms of Darkness: while his fellow Jews are being rounded up, a young boy escapes the concentration camps by sheltering with a prostitute.
A dramatic portrait of contemporary Latin America from the author, essayist and playwright whose death at the age of 83 has just been announced.