The Nero Book Awards have been developed in partnership with The Booksellers Association, who administer the Awards, and are in association with Brunel University of London.
Booksellers Association
The Booksellers Association is the membership organisation for booksellers in the UK and Ireland, and represents over 95% of booksellers. The BA exists to support, advise and work with its members to provide business-critical products and services for booksellers.
These include National Book Tokens, a gift card which prompts increased footfall and keeps gift spending in the book trade; Batchline and Batch, an award-winning EPOS, stock management and payments service, which saves time, money and hassle when settling invoices and organising returns; a full range of money-saving affinity deals; a free Business Support Helpline; Booktime magazine; government lobbying and representation work across the nations and regions; networking opportunities and events; and Books Are My Bag, a range of consumer-facing activity and campaigns, which include Indie Book of the Month, Independent Bookshop Week, Bookshop Day, the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards, Christmas Books and Summer Books catalogues and more.
Brunel University of London
Brunel University of London is an international university committed to bringing benefit to society through excellence in education, research and knowledge transfer. Situated in Uxbridge and a member of the prestigious University of London federation, the university has a broad portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that attract 16,500 students and 2,700 staff from more than 150 countries. It is the UK’s joint most internationally focussed university, and joint 6th in the world, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024.
Brunel has a reputation for high-impact academic research and entrepreneurial flair. The Complete University Guide 2024 ranks us 6th in the UK for research intensity, and 72.7% of our research was assessed as being world-leading or internationally excellent in the Research Excellence Framework 2021.
The university works extensively with industry partners, contributing to global innovation and policy change. It is the home of the sandwich degree, and the Global University Employability Ranking 2022 lists Brunel as 14th in the UK for producing the most employable graduates.
A civic university, Brunel uses innovation and entrepreneurialism to drive the local economy, and to build important strategic partnerships with local organisations to bring benefit to – and increase its impact in – the local community.
Right to Dream
Right to Dream, a global football community encompassing elite academies, clubs and academic schools has at its core, a profound belief that excellence can be found anywhere. Its academies merge the art of football with a robust emphasis on education, literacy and broader life skills, allowing its students to excel not only in the sporting arena, but off the pitch in academics and personal development. This is a rare combination in world football but the results are clear with many of its students reaching highs on and off the pitch, with many going on to play at the highest level and representing their countries at FIFA World Cups, through to academic excellence and attending the pinnacle of world education at Ivy League colleges and universities across North America.
The Nero Book Awards share this belief and provide a platform for writers to enter and showcase their talents to help inspire others to pick up a book or even start their own journey to literary excellence. Much like the students who pass through the Right to Dream academies, the winners of the Nero Book Awards are set to go onto achieve great successes in their careers and lives as a result of their dedication and commitment to achieving excellence.
