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Waterstones Book of the Year

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1geocroc
Editat: oct. 31, 2013, 6:57 pm

Read about this one in today Independent newspaper. Not previously heard of the Waterstones Book of the Year, but on closer inspection it would appear to have only got underway last year. You could cynically dismiss this as just another self-promotion for a high street book retailer, but the format chosen is one that mimics the bigger prizes. And good for James Daunt to try something different for the UK's only standalone national bookseller.

The shortlist has been selected through votes by Waterstones' bookseller across the country, and as such is pretty varied. The six books on the shortlist are:

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins
Maps by Aleksandra Mizielińska and Daniel Mizieliński
Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life by Nina Stibbe
Stoner by John Williams

The inaugural prize from 2012 featured HHhH, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, On The Map. The Old Ways and Bring Up The Bodies on the shortlist, but was won by a cookery book: Polpo: A Venetian Cookbook (Of Sorts) by Russell Norman

2HoldenCarver
nov. 4, 2013, 6:19 pm

I'd be absolutely delighted if the Gigantic Beard That Was Evil won; it's a stunning piece of work. Reminiscent in ways of Raymond Briggs, but Stephen Collins absolutely has his own voice in it. Everyone should read it.

My gut feeling is they might give the win to Stoner, though.

3HoldenCarver
des. 3, 2013, 4:57 pm

Oh man. I called it, I totally called it:

Stoner by John Williams awarded Waterstones book prize.

4TooBusyReading
des. 3, 2013, 5:47 pm

I recently listened to an audio version of Stoner, and loved it. I don't know if I would have chosen it as winner were I a judge because, sadly, I've read none of the others so have no basis for comparison.

6bergs47
des. 4, 2014, 2:46 am

It is announced that The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton is the Waterstones Book of the Year for 2014.

8bergs47
des. 9, 2015, 7:08 am

An illustrated fable about a fox looking for his lost friend, which runs to only 535 words, has won the 2015 Waterstones Book of the Year. The Fox and the Star, written by Coralie Bickford-Smith, a designer at Penguin

10bergs47
gen. 11, 2018, 4:29 am

Book of the Year Shortlist 2017:

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders

La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One, Philip Pullman

Mr Lear, Jenny Uglow

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, Yanis Varoufakis

A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge

The Lost Words, Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris

Waterstones Book of the Year 2017 Winner: La Belle Sauvage: Book of Dust Volume One

11bergs47
des. 26, 2018, 10:03 am