The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt (Viking) has won the Financial Times and Schroders 2025 Business Book of the Year Award. Witt receives £30,000 (about $40,000); the five runners-up each receive £10,000 (about $13,350).
Financial Times editor Roula Khalaf said: "Stephen Witt has written a fascinating account of the making of one of the most consequential companies of our times. In The Thinking Machine, Witt explores brilliantly the motivation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the single-minded entrepreneur who has built one of the AI age's most successful businesses."
Schroders Group CEO Richard Oldfield said in part, "In The Thinking Machine, we have a winner that truly captures the spirit and challenges of our time. It stands out for its rigorous research, outstanding writing, and relevance for anyone looking to understand the world around us. Each shortlisted book offers unique insights into the ways countries, businesses, and technology are shaping our future. Collectively, they help us navigate an era defined by rapid change and increasing complexity."
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To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has been awarded to two winners. Rosanna Pike's "dazzlingly witty" debut novel, A Little Trickerie, won the 2025 prize, while A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka took the Vintage Bollinger Prize, the "Winner of Winners" from 25 previous recipients of the award, the Bookseller reported.
Pike received a jeroboam and a case of Bollinger Special Cuvée, the complete set of the Everyman's Library P.G. Wodehouse collection, and a pig named after her winning book. Lewycka's family accepted the award on behalf of the author, who died the day after the judges reached their decision. They received a framed picture of the winning book jacket and a specially engraved jeroboam of Bollinger Special Cuvée.
Chair of the judges Peter Florence said that 2025 "gifted us several fabulous contenders for this year's prize, that ran a full spectrum of comic styles and just seemed endlessly entertaining. It was the closest multi-way call we've ever had, and we're delighted by our winner, and by the whole shortlist. Judging the Vintage Bollinger Prize was always going to be a locked-in hoot as we revisited so many fabulously funny winners. It seemed a daunting idea to garland one book among so many as the funniest book of the last 25 years, but actually we came to a book that some people were discovering for the first time and were laughing aloud at and loving."