2016 Shortlist
We're proud to announce the shortlists for The British Book Industry Awards. Scroll through all the categories below, or jump straight to:
Books of the Year
Children's Book of the Year
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A Boy Called Christmas | Matt Haig, illus. Chris Mould
Canongate
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Grandpa's Great Escape | David Walliams, illus. Tony Ross
HarperCollins Children's Books
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Illustrated Edition | J K Rowling, illus. Jim Kay
Bloomsbury
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Mog's Christmas Calamity | Judith Kerr
HarperCollins Children's Books
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My Brother is a Superhero | David Solomons, illus. Laura Ellen Anderson
Nosy Crow WINNER
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The Lie Tree | Frances Hardinge
Macmillan Children's Books
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The Shepherd's Crown | Terry Pratchett
Doubleday Children's
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Username: Evie | Joe Sugg, Matt Whyman, illus. Amrit Birdi
Hodder & Stoughton
Debut Fiction Book of the Year
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Disclaimer | Renee Knight
Doubleday
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Grief is the Thing with Feathers | Max Porter
Faber & Faber
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I Let You Go | Clare Mackintosh
Sphere
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In a Dark, Dark Wood | Ruth Ware
Harvill Secker
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The Fishermen | Chigozie Obioma
One Pushkin Press
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The Girl in the Red Coat | Kate Hamer
Faber & Faber
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The Loney | Andrew Michael Hurley
John Murray OVERALL WINNER
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The Versions of Us | Laura Barnett
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Non-fiction Book of the Year
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Deliciously Ella | Ella Woodward
Yellow Kite
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Gut | Giulia Enders, trans. David Shaw
Scribe
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How it Works: The Husband | Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris
Michael Joseph
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Lean in 15 | Joe Wicks
Bluebird
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Norwegian Wood | Lars Mitting, trans. Robert Ferguson
MacLehose Press WINNER
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Reasons to Stay Alive | Matt Haig
Canongate
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SPQR | Mary Beard
Profile
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The Road to Little Dribbling | Bill Bryson
Doubleday
Fiction Book of the Year
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A God in Ruins | Kate Atkinson
Doubleday
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A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara
Picador WINNER
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After You | Jojo Moyes
Michael Joseph
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Go Set a Watchman | Harper Lee
William Heinemann
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Grey | EL James
Arrow
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The Buried Giant | Kazuo Ishiguro
Faber & Faber
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The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins
Doubleday
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The Green Road | Anne Enright
Jonathan Cape
Great People
HarperCollins Young Retailer of the Year
in honour of Sue Butterworth
Ashley Armstrong, Waterstones
Jasmine Denholm, Wenlock Books
Imogen Hargreaves, Mostly Books
Billy Frederick Kenneth Howorth, Carnforth Bookshop
Millie McCosh, Atkinson-Pryce Books
Mariana Mouzinho, Blackwell's WINNER
Bookshop Manager of the Year
sponsored by HarperCollins
Marion Akehurst, Blackwell's
Anjuli Clayden, Waterstones
Pauline Giacomelli, Warwick Books
Jonny Green, Waterstones WINNER
Editor of the Year
sponsored by Inspired Selection
Sarah Adams, Transworld
Jason Arthur, Cornerstone
Jenny Broom, Wide Eyed Editions, Quarto
Liz Gough, Yellow Kite, Hodder & Stoughton
Juliet Mabey, Oneworld
Tina Persaud, Pavilion Books WINNER
Carole Tonkinson, Bluebird, Pan Macmillan
Rights Professional of the Year
sponsored by Frankfurt Book Fair
Lisa Baker, Faber & Faber
Kate Cooper, Curtis Brown
Ola Gotkowska, Nosy Crow
Kate Hibbert, Little, Brown
Andrew Sharp, Hachette Children's Group
Mary Thompson, HarperCollins
Michele Young, Pan Macmillan WINNER
Literary Agent of the Year
sponsored by Orion
Lizzy Kremer, David Higham Associates WINNER
Juliet Mushens, United Talent Agency
Cathryn Summerhayes, WME
Karolina Sutton, Curtis Brown
Vicki Willden-Lebrecht, Bright Group International
Claire Wilson, Rogers, Coleridge and White
Bringing Books to Readers
Marketing Strategy of the Year
sponsored by Nielsen
Faber Members, Faber & Faber
Go Set a Watchman, Cornerstone
Jack Reacher Week, Transworld
Little Black Classics, Penguin Classics WINNER
Millie Marotta, Pavilion Books
Roald Dahl Marketing Strategy 2015, Puffin
Scrabble Week, HarperCollins Publishers
Stanfords Travel Writers Festival, Stanfords
The Gollancz Festival, Orion
Username Evie: Joe Sugg, Hodder & Stoughton
Publicity Campaign of the Year
sponsored by the Publishers' Publicity Circle
Alice Broderick and Lauren Hyett, with Jessica Farrugia-Sharples, Doubleday Children's: The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett
Alison Barrow, Doubleday, Transworld: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins WINNER
Eleni Lawrence, Yellow Kite, Hodder & Stoughton: Deliciously Ella by Ella Woodward
Ellie Hughes, Michael Joseph, Penguin: Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups
Jaz Lacey-Campbell, Canongate Books: Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
Yassine Belkacemi, John Murray: The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
Independent Bookshop of the Year
sponsored by Gardners
Atkinson-Pryce Books, Biggar
Book-ish, Crickhowell, Powys
Forum Books, Corbridge
Housmans, Kings Cross
The Blessington Book Store, Wicklow
The Haslemere Bookshop, Haslemere
Winstone’s Books, Sherborne WINNER
Children's Bookseller of the Year
sponsored by Macmillan Children's Books
Eason WINNER
Octavia's Bookshop
Sainsbury's
Scholastic & Travelling Book Fairs
Storytellers, Inc.
The Edinburgh Bookshop
Waterstones
Library of the Year
in association with The Reading Agency
Dagenham Library WINNER
Dudley Libraries
Plympton Library
Port Talbot Library
RNIB Library
Shetland Library
Wigan Libraries
Non-traditional Retailer of the Year
Sponsored by The Quarto Group
The National Trust
Oliver Bonas
The Royal Horticultural Society
Urban Outfitters WINNER
Book Retailer of the Year
sponsored by Bonnier Publishing
Blackwell's
Dubray Books
Foyles
Sainsbury's
Waterstones
WH Smith Travel WINNER
Wordery
Publishing Success
Imprint of the Year
sponsored by FMcM
Batsford, Pavilion Books
William Heinemann, Cornerstone
MacLehose Press, Quercus
Picador, Pan Macmillan WINNER
Viking, Penguin General
William Collins, HarperCollins
Yellow Kite, Hodder & Stoughton
Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Collins Learning, HarperCollins
Hodder Education Group WINNER
SAGE Publishing
Scholastic Education
Independent Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year
Berghahn Books
Bright Red Publishing
How2become
Jessica Kingsley Publishers WINNER
Policy Press, University of Bristol
Rowman & Littlefield International
Children's Publisher of the Year
in association with BookTrust
Bloomsbury Publishing
DK
HarperCollins Children's Books WINNER
Nosy Crow
Macmillan Children's Books
Penguin Random House Children's
Scholastic Children's Books
Usborne Publishing
Independent Publisher of the Year
sponsored by Firsty Group
Andersen Press
Faber & Faber
Head of Zeus
Laurence King Publishing
Michael O'Mara Books
Nosy Crow
Oneworld WINNER
Pavilion Books
Publisher of the Year
sponsored by Bertrams
Bonnier Publishing
Cornerstone
HarperCollins
Hodder & Stoughton
Octopus Publishing Group
Pan Macmillan
Penguin General
Transworld WINNER
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