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The British Book Awards or Nibbies are literary awards for the best UK writers and their works, administered by The Bookseller. The awards have had several previous names, owners and sponsors since being launched in 1990, including the National Book Awards from 2010 to 2014.

Book award history

The British Book Awards, or Nibbies, ran from 1990 to 2009 and were founded by the editor of Publishing News.[1] The awards were then acquired by Agile Marketing, which renamed them the National Book Awards and called them the Galaxy National Book Awards (2010–2011) and later the Specsavers National Book Awards (2012–2014) after their headline sponsors.[2] There were no National Book Awards after 2014;[3] in 2017 the awards were acquired by The Bookseller from the estate of Publishing NewsTemplate:' founder, Fred Newman, and renamed back to the British Book Awards or Nibbies.[1]

In 2018, a Specsavers National Book Awards ceremony was held on 20 November but was unrelated to the Nibbies.[4][5]

In 2005, The Bookseller launched a separate scheme, The Bookseller Retail Awards (winners not listed in this article). In 2010, running parallel to the National Book Awards, The Bookseller unified The Nibbies with its retail awards to produce The Bookseller Industry Awards (winners not listed in this article).[1]

The awards are known as the Nibbies because of the golden nib-shaped trophy given to winners.[6]

Name history

  • 1990–2009: British Book Awards
  • 2010–2011: Galaxy National Book Awards
  • 2012–2014: Specsavers National Book Awards
  • 2015–2016: no awards
  • 2017–Pres: British Book Awards

Award winners (recent)

2024 Books of the Year

The shortlisted nominees were announced on 8 March 2024.[7][8][9] Once again the in-person ceremony was livestreamed.[10] Katherine Rundell was named Author of the Year, the first time that a children's writer received the accolade since Philip Pullman in 2018.[11] In the run up to the awards ceremony, a daily podcast featuring nominated authors was made available online.[12]

Presented: 13 May 2024 – Venue: Grosvenor House Hotel, London.[11][13][14]
Overall Book of the Year Author of the Year Illustrator of the year
Fiction Book of the Year Debut Book of the Year Crime and Thriller Book of the Year
Non-fiction: Narrative Book of the Year Non-fiction: Lifestyle and Illustrated Page-turner of the Year
Children's Fiction Book of the Year Children's Non-fiction Book of the Year Children's Illustrated Book of the Year
  • Brilliant Black British History by Atinuke, illustrated by Kingsley Nebechi (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
    • Stolen History: The Truth About the British Empire and How It Shaped Us by Sathnam Sanghera (Puffin, Penguin Random House Children's)
    • Little People, Big Dreams: King Charles by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara, illustrated by Matt Hunt (Frances Lincoln, Quarto)
    • Black & Irish: Legends, Trailblazers & Everyday Heroes by Leon Diop, Briana Fitzsimons, illustrated by Jessica Louis (Little Island Books)
    • Kay's Incredible Inventions by Adam Kay, illustrated by Henry Paker (Puffin, Penguin Random House Children's)
    • The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die by Peter Lantos (Scholastic)
Discover Book of the Year Non-fiction Audiobook of the Year Fiction Audiobook of the Year

2023 Books of the Year

The shortlisted nominees were announced on 17 March 2023.[15][16][17] Once again the in-person ceremony was livestreamed.[18] In 2023 the Non-fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year category was expanded to include Illustrated books.

Salman Rushdie was recognised with a special Freedom to Publish honour.[19] It is only the second time that the British Book Awards regime has conferred this prize, previously being awarded in 2022 to HarperCollins UK and its publishing director Arabella Pike "in recognition of their defense of [their] authors against interference from Russian oligarchs, and for their 'robust defense of investigative non-fiction and publishing in the public interest."[20]

Presented: 15 May 2023 – Venue: Grosvenor House Hotel, London.[20][21][22]
Overall Book of the Year Author of the Year Illustrator of the year
Fiction Book of the Year Debut Book of the Year Crime and Thriller Book of the Year
Non-fiction: Narrative Book of the Year Non-fiction: Lifestyle and Illustrated Page-turner of the Year
Children's Fiction Book of the Year Children's Non-fiction Book of the Year Children's Illustrated Book of the Year
Discover Book of the Year Non-fiction Audiobook of the Year Fiction Audiobook of the Year

2022 Books of the Year

The shortlisted nominees were announced on 25 March 2022.[23][24][25] This year marked the return to the first live awards ceremony since 2019 but was also broadcast as a livestream.[26]

A new category of Discover Book of the Year was introduced aiming to showcase traditionally underrepresented authors with a particular focus on the work of indie presses and imprints.[24] Alongside this, also new for 2022, was a split of the Children's Awards into non-fiction and illustrated, in addition to the fiction award, and a split of the Audiobook of the Year award into Fiction audiobook of the Year and Non-fiction audiobook of the Year.

Presented: 23 May 2022 – Venue: Grosvenor House Hotel, London.[26][27][28]
Overall Book of the Year[29] Author of the Year Illustrator of the year
Fiction Book of the Year Debut Book of the Year Crime and Thriller Book of the Year
Non-fiction: Narrative Book of the Year Non-fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year Page-turner of the Year
Children's Fiction Book of the Year Children's Non-fiction Book of the Year Children's Illustrated Book of the Year
Discover Book of the Year Non-fiction Audiobook of the Year Fiction Audiobook of the Year

2021 Books of the Year

The shortlisted nominees were announced on 19 March 2021.[30][31] Once again the ceremony was held online due to the continuing restrictions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. It took place on 13 May 2021 at the Battersea Arts Centre, London.[32]

This year saw the addition of a new award category: Page-turner of the Year.[33]

Presented: 13 May 2021 – Online ceremony due to COVID-19.[32][34][35][36][37]
Overall Book of the Year Author of the Year Illustrator of the year
Fiction Book of the Year Debut Book of the Year Crime and Thriller Book of the Year
Non-fiction: Narrative Book of the Year Non-fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year Page-turner of the Year
Children's Fiction Book of the Year Children's Illustrated and Non-fiction Audiobook of the Year

2020 Books of the Year

The shortlisted nominees were announced on 20 March 2020.[38] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the live event due to be held on 18 May 2020 was cancelled and the ceremony was held online over a month later in June 2020.[39][40] This year's ceremony was named Event of the Year at the 2020 Independent Publisher Awards.[33]

In celebration of the Nibbies' 30th anniversary, 2020 saw a special award called "30 from 30" to celebrate the best of the best, where a longlist of 30 previous winners was narrowed down by a public poll to a shortlist of 10 nominees, plus a wildcard entry (This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay), that had not taken home a trophy in the past.[38][41]

2020 was a notable year for the Nibbies in that except for illustrator Axel Scheffler, who won with his longtime co-creator Julia Donaldson, the programme's entire slate of authorial honours went to women and the Book of the Year and Author of the Year categories had their first ever black winners.[42][43][44]

Presented: 29 June 2020 – Online ceremony due to COVID-19.[45][46][47][48]
Overall Book of the Year Author of the Year Illustrator of the year
Fiction Book of the Year[49] Debut Book of the Year Crime and Thriller Book of the Year
Non-fiction: Narrative Book of the Year Non-fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year Children's Fiction Book of the Year
Children's Illustrated and Non-fiction Audiobook of the Year 30 from 30 Special Award

2019 Books of the Year

The shortlisted nominees were announced on 22 March 2019. The awards were now simplified into just two divisions, Books of the Year (the Nibbies) and The Trade Awards.[50][51]

2019 saw the Children's Book of the Year category split into two categories: Children's Fiction Book of the Year and Children's Illustrated and Non-fiction Book of the Year.[52] This year also saw Becoming, the memoir by former first lady Michelle Obama winning two awards.

Presented: 13 May 2019 – Venue: Grosvenor House Hotel, London.[53][54][55][56][57]
Overall Book of the Year[58] Author of the Year Illustrator of the year
Fiction Book of the Year Debut Book of the Year Crime and Thriller Book of the Year
Non-fiction: Narrative Book of the Year Non-fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year Children's Fiction Book of the Year
Children's Illustrated and Non-fiction Audiobook of the Year

2018 Books of the Year

The shortlisted nominees were announced on 16 March 2018.[59][60][61] Again the awards comprised four divisions: Books of the Year (the Nibbies), Great People, Bringing Books to Readers and Publishing Success.

New categories of Author of the Year, Illustrator of the Year were added this year. Audiobook of the Year and an award for Overall Book of the Year from all the category winners were also reintroduced after being omitted in 2017.[62] This year also saw a joint winner for the Children's Book of the Year category.

Presented: 14 May 2018 – Venue: Grosvenor House Hotel, London.[63][64][65]
Overall Book of the Year Author of the Year[66] Illustrator of the year
Fiction Book of the Year Debut Book of the Year Crime and Thriller Book of the Year
Non-fiction: Narrative Book of the Year Non-fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year Children's Book of the Year
Audiobook of the Year

2017 Books of the Year

The shortlisted nominees were announced on 15 March 2017 at the London Book Fair. The awards comprised four divisions: Books of the Year (the Nibbies), Great People, Bringing Books to Readers and Publishing Success. For the first Nibbies since 2014, the ceremony was expanded, Crime and Thriller titles regained their own category (previously called the Crime Thriller of the Year and changed to Thriller and Crime Novel of the Year in 2011), while non-fiction was split into Narrative and Lifestyle.[67] The Newcomer of the Year / New Writer of the Year award was renamed Debut Book of the Year and The Popular Fiction award which had changed to Popular Fiction Book of the Year in 2010 was renamed simply as Fiction Book of the Year in this year.

Presented: 8 May 2017 – Venue: Grosvenor House Hotel, London.[68][69][70][71][72]
Fiction Book of the Year Debut Book of the Year Crime and Thriller Book of the Year
Non-fiction: Narrative Book of the Year Non-fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year Children's Book of the Year
Bestseller of the Year
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J. K. Rowling

1990–2016

Book of the Year

Prior to 2010 the Best was a unique winner. Starting in 2010, the Best was chosen by the public via open internet vote from among the winning books in the other categories. The category was resurrected in 2018.

Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
1994 Template:Sortname Wild Swans Flamingo
1995 Template:Sortname Writing Home Faber & Faber
1996 Template:Sortname Delia Smith's Winter Collection BBC Books
1997 Template:Sortname Longitude Fourth Estate
1998 Template:Sortname Bridget Jones's Diary Picador
1999 Template:Sortname Birthday Letters Faber & Faber
2000 Template:Sortname Managing My Life Hodder & Stoughton
2001 Template:Sortname Man and Boy HarperCollins
2002 Template:Sortname Billy HarperCollins
2003 Template:Sortname Stupid White Men Penguin
2004 Template:Sortname Eats, Shoots & Leaves Profile
2005 Template:Sortname Template:Sort Corgi
2006 Template:Sortname Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Bloomsbury
2007 Template:Sortname Template:Sort HarperCollins
2008 Template:Sortname On Chesil Beach Jonathan Cape
2009 Template:Sortname Template:Sort Bloomsbury
2010 Template:Sortname One Day Hodder & Stoughton
2011 Template:Sortname How to Be a Woman Ebury Press
2012 Template:Sortname Fifty Shades of Grey Vintage Books [73]
2013 Template:Sortname Template:Sort William Morrow and Company [74]
2014 Template:Sortname Template:Sort Ecco (US)
Picador (UK)
[75]
2015 No award
2016 No award

Children's Book of the Year

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Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
1996 Template:Sortname ed. Template:Sort Hutchinson
1997 Template:Sortname Northern Lights Scholastic
1998 Template:Sortname Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Bloomsbury
1999 Template:Sortname Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Bloomsbury
2000 Template:Sortname Template:Sort Doubleday
2001 Template:Sortname Template:Sort Scholastic
2002 Template:Sortname Artemis Fowl Viking/Puffin
2003 Template:Sortname Girls in Tears Corgi Children's
2004 Template:Sortname Template:Sort David Fickling
2005 Template:Sortname and Axel Scheffler Template:Sort Macmillan Children's Books
2006 Template:Sortname Ark Angel Walker Books
2007 Template:Sortname Flanimals of the Deep Faber & Faber
2008 Template:Sortname Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman Orion Children's Books
2009 Template:Sortname Breaking Dawn Little, Brown
2010 Template:Sortname and Axel Scheffler Zog Alison Green
2011 Template:Sortname Template:Sort Walker Books
2012 Template:Sortname Ratburger HarperCollins
2013 Template:Sortname Demon Dentist HarperCollins
2014 Template:Sortname Awful Auntie HarperCollins
2015 No award
2016 No award

Fiction Book of the Year

Previously called Popular Fiction Award. Name changed to Popular Fiction Book of the Year in 2010 and subsequently to Fiction Book of the Year in 2017.

Début Book of the Year

Previously called the Newcomer of the Year. Name changed to New Writer of the Year in 2010 and subsequently to Début Book of the Year in 2017.

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Crime & Thriller Book of the Year

Previously called the Crime Thriller of the Year. Name changed to Thriller & Crime Novel of the Year in 2011 and subsequently to Crime & Thriller Book of the Year in 2017.

Illustrated Children's Book of the Year

Resurrected as a standalone category in 2022.

Retired awards

The following awards are no longer active or have been split into sub categories.

Audiobook of the Year

Bestseller Award

Named Bestseller of the Year in 1991. Renamed Bestseller Award in 2017.

Biography/Autobiography of the Year

Previously called Biography of the Year. Name changed to Biography/Autobiography of the Year in 2010.

Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year

Food & Drink Book of the Year

Paperback of the Year

Outstanding Achievement

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UK Author of the Year

Previously called Author of the Year. Renamed to UK Author of the Year in 2010, notwithstanding the fact the award has been given to non-UK authors. Template:Colbegin

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International Author of the Year

Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year

The Children's Author of the Year

Illustrated Book of the Year

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The TV and Film Book of the Year

The Literary Fiction Award

The History Book of the Year

The Sports Book of the Year

The deciBel Writer of the Year

The Fastest Selling Biography of All Time

The Travel Writer of the Year

The Fantasy and Science Fiction Author of the Year

See also

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