Entry for the Whitbread Book Awards is simple. The key criteria are as follows:

• books must be submitted directly by publishers, not by authors
• authors of submitted books must have been resident in the United Kingdom or Ireland for over six months of each of the previous three years (although UK or Irish nationality is not essential)
• books must have been first published in the UK or Ireland between 1 November of the previous year and 31 October of the current year. Books previously published elsewhere are not eligible

Close of entry each year is on or around the last Friday in June.

For further information, please contact Nicola Tarling at the Booksellers Association on 020 7802 0816 or email [email protected].