Winners of the Specsavers National Book Awards 2013, a celebration of Britain’s best books, were revealed 11 December 2013 at a dazzling awards ceremony at London’s Mandarin Oriental. The category winners now compete in an online public vote for the prestigious Book of the Year award, and the victor will be revealed on Boxing Day.
Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb did it for the girls, taking the prize for the Magic FM Non-fiction Book of the Year, squeezing ahead of a mighty shortlist which included Bill Bryson, Malcolm Gladwell and Max Hastings.
Robert Harris’s An Officer and A Spy took the Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year award, beating Bridget Jones and Bond. Chart-topping novelists Dawn French, Philippa Gregory and Adele Parks were also toppled by Harris’s gripping retelling of the Dreyfus Affair.
Elsewhere, the award for Waterstone’s UK Author of the Year went to Kate Atkinson, Sophie Hannah’s The Carrier was named Crime Book of the Year, and newcomer Liza Klaussman nabbed the Books Are My Bag New Writer of the Year Award for Tigers in Red Weather.
Nigel Slater also tasted glory, bagging Food and Drink Book of the Year for Eat. Gillian Flynn, whose Gone Girl was the star of the summer book charts, pipped a host of bestselling authors including Man Booker winner Eleanor Catton to the award for International Author of the Year. And for those who love to listen to a good yarn, Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane took the prize for Audible Audiobook of the Year.
Specsavers Book of the Year Award – VOTING NOW OPEN
It’s now up to the public to complete the final chapter by deciding the overall winner. Readers can vote online to determine which category winner deserves the coveted Specsavers Book of the Year trophy, previously won by Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James and Caitlin Moran’s How To Be A Woman. The only book award chosen by readers themselves, the Book of the Year accolade is the truest indicator of popular appeal. Votes can be registered at https://www.nationalbookawards.co.uk/. The voting closes at midnight on 19 December with the winner announced on 26 December.
Click on a book jacket below to find out more about each winner.
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