Congratulations to the category winners in the Nero Book Awards - Benjamin Wood, Claire Lynch, Jamila Gavin and Sarah Perry! Sarah's Non-Fiction winner is reviewed here by Adele Geras: Overall winner announced 4th March. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/11/deat... #NeroBookAwards
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ 2025 ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ตโ๐ด ๐ข ๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ. ๐๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ชโ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ฅ๐ข๐บ.
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We are thrilled to see that SEASCRAPER by Benjamin Wood has won the 2025 Nero Prize for Fiction!
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#NeroBookAwards: #BenjaminWood and #SarahPerry among prize winners. Wood wins the award for fiction for his โutterly immersiveโ novel Seascraper while Perry picks up the nonfiction prize for her memoir Death of an Ordinary Man www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... ๐
We find out the category winners of the #nerobookawards tomorrow, 14 January, including the winner of the children's fiction award. Got a favourite? Excited to have interviews with all four shortlisted authors โฌ๏ธ #KidLitUK #booksky
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Looking for stimulating #Christmas reading? Enjoy our interviews with the four authors on the shortlist for the #nerobookawards Children's Fiction Award #KidLitUK
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Graphic with the cover of MY SOUL, A SHINING TREE by Jamila Gavin and a photograph of Jamila Gavin.
Another #Christmas present from us to you! @nicolettejones.bsky.social interviews Jamila Gavin about her #nerobookawards shortlisted MY SOUL A SHINING TREE: it has musical prose and historical facts about a hero who won the Victoria Cross. #KidLitUK @farshorebooks.bsky.social
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With his talent for epic adventure and love of highly visual scenes and settings, Struan Murray seems to have been born to write about dragons. Now DRAGONBORN is shortlisted for the #NeroBookAwards. Find out why it's so hot @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social #KidLitUK
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Graphic with the four books on the children's fiction shortlist for the Nero Book Awards: Dragonborn by Struan Murray, Shrapnel Boys by Jenny Pearson, My Soul a Shining Tree by Jamila Gavin and People Like Stars by Patrice Lawrence.
"Iโm not very good at writing to trendsโฆI can only write about thing I care about."
NEW #BfK interview: Fen Coles @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social talks to Patrice Lawrence about PEOPLE LIKE STARS
shortlisted #NeroBookAwards @scholasticuk.bsky.social #KidLitUK
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The first in @booksforkeeps.bsky.social #Nerobookawards interview series: Jenny Pearson/Shrapnel Boys.
Up next:
๐look out for our interview with @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social #PeopleLikeStars @scholasticuk.bsky.social
A photograph of author Jenny Pearson. She is sitting on a bench in a London square, wearing a spotted short sleeved shirt.
The cover of Jenny Pearson's book Shrapnel Boys (Usborne). It shows a group of young boys in front of St Paul's Cathedral in wartime as enemy planes fly overhead.
โA stunning piece of historical fiction which combines meticulous research with a beautifully imagined plot.โ
First in our series of interviews with the authors shortlisted for #NeroBookAwards, Joanne Owen talks to Jenny Pearson about SHRAPNEL BOYS #KidLitUK
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The Recommender: Oyinkan Braithwaite, novelist, wearing thick rimmed glasses and a colourful jacket
The Recommender: Oyinkan Braithwaite
The award-winning author of My Sister, the Serial Killer โ whose latest book Cursed Daughters @atlanticbooks.bsky.social has just been shortlisted for the 2025 #NeroBookAwards โ shares her latest cultural discoveries
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We're so thrilled that #PeopleLikeStars by the wonderful @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the 2025 #NeroBookAwards!
Judges described it as "Compelling, courageous and full of heart... storytelling at its most humane and powerful."
Huge congrats Patrice!๐
๐ฅณThis is such fantastic news! Congratulations to all you shortlistees!
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We read a LOT of books for the Nero Book Awards Fiction category and it was hard to whittle it down to four.
Recommended reading:
* What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
* Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
* The Two Roberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
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Massive congratulations to George Harrison, whose debut novel Season is shortlisted today for the #nerobookawards. Itโs a warm, gentle tale about fandom and unlikely friendship in the stands of a Premier League football stadium. Weโre overjoyed that itโs getting this recognition
Happy #worldbookday ๐ Looking forward to getting Lost in the Gardenโฆ.
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Lovely event with @zoeannewest.bsky.social at #NeroBookAwards.
Lots of lovely bookish/writing chat & bumped into @savidgereads.bsky.social at the bar.
Thank you @caffenero.bsky.social for my goodie bag with a copy of the winning book #MauriceandMaralyn & delicious coffee.
Also THE #BillBryson!
Sheryl had a fab time at the NERO BOOK AWARDS last night!
Here she is with Colin Barrett, winner of the Debut Fiction award for his brilliant novel WILD HOUSES - pictured here with his mum! Congratulations to all the winners! ๐
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Lovely night at the #NeroBookAwards am VERY excited to read the winner, itโs sounds incredible. #booksky
So excited to be here at the #NeroBookAwards in London tonight. Who will win the Nero Gold Prize?
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The #brunelbigread votes are in. Congrats to Adam S. Leslie & Lost in the Garden! We look forward to welcoming Adam to campus soon, along with copies of his book: youtube.com/shorts/rmUJD...
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The #brunelbigread votes are in. Congrats to Adam S. Leslie & Lost in the Garden! We look forward to welcoming Adam to campus soon, along with copies of his book: youtube.com/shorts/rmUJD...
#nerobookawards
All 16 shortlisted books on a blue background. Text says: Nero Book Awards
The #NeroBookAwards celebrate the craft of great writing and the joy of reading.
We're giving away a set of all 16 books on the shortlist โ including the four category winners โ and some Caffรจ Nero ground coffee to enjoy while reading them!
Enter now: https://s.mtrbio.com/ggmamebngp
Book cover of Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
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โOur winner Wild Houses was a clear stand-out for the sheer quality of its writing; a literary page-turner, with prose both lyrical and absorbing"
Colin Barrettโs Wild Houses wins Best Debut Nero Book Award ๐๐
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Thanks so much to #nerobookawards - toot toot! x
Congratulations, Liz Hyder @londonbessie.bsky.social l today announced winner of the 2024 #NeroBookAwards with THE TWELVE illustrated by Tom de Freston, published by @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social. Read all about it, including our exclusive interview with Liz ๐
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Photographs of the four authors shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Children's Category: Catherine Bruton, Scarlett Dunsmore, Liz Hyder and Patrick Ness
Graphic with the four books - spine on - shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Children's Category: Bird Boy by Catherine Bruton, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness, How to Survive a Horror Movie by Scarlett Dunsmore and The Twelve by Liz Hyder.
ICYI - read interviews with each of the four authors on the shortlist for the #NeroBookAwards Children's Category now via #BooksForKeeps. Winner announced 14 January 25. Which is your pick? #Awards #KidLit
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Nero book awards shortlist 2024
The only 1 I've read is Glorious Exploits which has been one of my favourite books of 2024.
How about you?
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