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British Book Awards

Also known as the Nibbies, the British Book Awards are an annual industry prize for authors, publishers and booksellers.

February 2023

  • An independent bookshop in London.

    British independent publishers thrive despite Brexit and Covid pandemic

    Small press of the year award shortlists 48 presses that are ‘reaping the rewards from inspirational publishing’, says British book awards chair of judges

June 2020

  • Candice Carty-Williams & Bernardine Evaristo

    Evaristo and Carty-Williams become first black authors to win top British Book awards

    Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo take book of the year and author of the year categories, as publishers face criticism for treatment of black authors

May 2019

  • Sally Rooney<br>FIRST USE SAT REV SEPT 2018 3/08/2018 RHA Gallery, Dublin Author Sally Rooney ©Patrick Bolger

    Sally Rooney trumps Michelle Obama to book of the year title

    Despite the former first lady’s memoir Becoming rapidly outselling Rooney’s Normal People, British book award judges give top prize to Irish writer

May 2018

  • Far From the Madding Crow

    Browse a bookshop
    Browse a bookshop: Far from the Madding Crowd

    Top sellers and recommended reads from Linlithgow

May 2017

  • Sarah Perry

    The Essex Serpent adds top British Book Award to prize haul

    Sarah Perry crowns a much-garlanded year for her gothic romp, honoured alongside authors including Kiran Millwood Hargrave and JK Rowling
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