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The Waterstones Book of the Year, established in 2012, [1] is an annual award presented to a book published in the previous 12 months. Waterstones' booksellers nominate and vote to determine the winners and finalists for the prize. Award winners receive "full and committed backing" from Waterstones both in-person and online. [2]
Katherine Rundell (born 10 July 1987) is an English author and academic. She is the author of Impossible Creatures, named Waterstones Book of the Year for 2023. [1] She is also the author of Rooftoppers, which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize [2] and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, [3] and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. [4]
In 2023, Winn won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for In Memoriam. [8] [9] The book was also nominated for the 2023 Waterstones Book of the Year and won the Waterstones Novel of the Year. [10] In October 2024 the German translation (Durch das große Feuer) won the Young Adult Jury Award of the German Youth Literature Awards at the Frankfurt ...
The Ship Beneath the Ice was a Sunday Times Bestseller, a Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month, and was picked as a Waterstones Paperback of the Year in 2023. It has been lauded by Sir Michael Palin, author of Erebus. [15]
Nero Book Award (2023) Michael Magee (born May 1990), [ 1 ] also known as Michael Nolan , [ 2 ] is a writer from Northern Ireland . His first novel, Close to Home , won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature , was a category winner in the Nero Book Awards , and was the Waterstones Irish Book of the Year.
Year Award Result Ref. 2023 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Award — Shortlisted [16] Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards — Shortlisted [17] Foyles Books of the Year: Fiction: Won [18] Goodreads Choice Award: Fiction: Won [19] Libby Book Award Book Club Pick: Won [20] New England Book Award: Fiction: Won [21] Waterstones Book of the Year ...
Among the prizes Garmus has won are British Book Awards Author of the Year 2023, [8] Waterstones Author of the Year 2022, [9] the Paul Torday Memorial Prize [10] for a first novel by an author over 60, and Forbes Magazine's 50 over 50 Europe, Middle East And Africa 2024. [11] The book was shortlisted for the 2023 RSL Christopher Bland Prize. [12]
Waterstones Booksellers Limited, trading as Waterstones (formerly Waterstone's), is a British book retailer that operates 311 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and also other nearby countries. [5] As of February 2014 [update] , it employs around 3,500 staff in the UK and Europe. [ 5 ]