‘Menopausing’ wins Book of the Year at the British Book Awards

Davina McCall and Naomi Potter’s Menopausing (HQ) has won book of the year at the British Book Awards, reports the Bookseller.

McCall and Potter’s book, which also won the nonfiction lifestyle and illustrated category, was praised for its ‘taboo-breaking content’ and the publisher’s ‘evangelical’ and ‘exhaustive’ promotion.

Other award winners included:

Fiction book of the year

• Babel (R F Kuang, HarperVoyager)

Debut book of the year

• Trespasses (Louise Kennedy, Bloomsbury)

Author of the year

• Bonnie Garmus

Fiction: crime and thriller book of the year

• The Twyford Code (Janice Hallett, Viper)

Fiction: pageturner of the year

• Verity (Colleen Hoover, S&S)

Nonfiction narrative book of the year

• Super-Infinite: The transformations of John Donne (Katherine Rundell, Faber & Faber)

Children’s fiction book of the year

• Tyger (S F Said, illus by Dave McKean, David Fickling Books).

In the trade section of the awards, Simon & Schuster was named publisher of the year, while HarperVoyager won imprint of the year. Oneworld won independent publisher of the year.

In retailing, W H Smith Travel won the book retailer of the year award, and Griffin Books in Penarth won for independent bookshop of the year.

For the full lists of winners, see the Bookseller website.

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