"In the liberal industry of publishing, the tension that exists between profit and morality is nothing new. … But the debate over what should be published has reached a fever pitch."
Alison Flood is a British journalist and author who has built a career covering books and the publishing industry. As a senior reporter at The Guardian, she writes in-depth news articles and features that explore the evolving landscape of the literary world. She is judging the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2024, chairs the British Book Awards’ Crime and Thriller Book of the Year award and has also judged the Costa first novel award and the Orwell prize for political fiction.
Flood takes a keen interest in examining how technological changes are transforming the ways in which books are written, published, and consumed by readers.