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Nayu here! Do you remember that at the beginning of December I told you about the Specsavers Book of the Year 2014, which included the chance for you to vote for a top book? Well, the publicly voted winner has been decided! Is it someone you voted for? Here are the official details.
Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist wins Specsavers Book of the Year 2014 Award
The Miniaturist
dominates public vote and earns debut author prestigious prize
Jessie Burton has been named the author of Britain’s favourite book today, as her atmospheric literary thriller
The Miniaturist
was voted the
Specsavers Book of the Year for 2014. Ending a remarkable year on a high, Jessie was crowned overall winner by the public in a vote comprising the winners of all ten categories from this year’s
Specsavers National Book Awards.
Burton’s critically acclaimed novel won by a significant margin ahead of outstanding competition in the shape of
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, Us by David Nicholls and Nathan Filer’s
The Shock of the Fall.
Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam,
The Miniaturist swiftly rose to fame this year as a favourite amongst readers and booksellers alike. In a year of exceptionally strong debut titles, it quickly became the best-selling literary debut hardback of the decade. Fittingly, Jesse Burton won
the New Writer of the Year prize at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2014 qualifying for the Specsavers Book of the Year public vote.
Jessie Burton
said:
“I am indebted forever to the voting public for this incredible honour. It is no exaggeration to say this has been a life-transforming year for me, and this award is a very big cherry on the cake. There are always stories to write, and people who want to
read them, and as the year closes, I find this very heartening news indeed. This wonderful acknowledgement will propel me into 2015, and I am deeply thankful to everyone who took the time to vote.”
Dame Mary Perkins, Specsavers founder,
said: “Congratulations to Jessie Burton. It’s wonderful to see the Specsavers Book of the Year go to a new talent and we look forward to see what’s next from this very talented author.”
Amanda Ross Joint MD of Cactus TV, added:
“The National Book Awards reflect the tastes of the nation, and the nominees are some of the biggest titles of the year across all genres, so it’s an amazing achievement for a debut author to triumph over such a prestigious field.”
The only book award chosen by readers themselves, the Book of the Year is a true test
of popularity. Previous winners include The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman (2013),
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James (2012), Caitlin Moran’s How To Be A Woman
(2011) and One Day by David Nicholls (2010).
The
Specsavers National Book Awards were hosted by ITV’s Susanna Reid at the Foreign Office on Wednesday 26 November. One of the most prestigious
events in the publishing calendar, the awards are unique in acknowledging critical and commercial success.
Please see full details of category award winners below, from which the winner of the
Specsavers Book of the Year title was chosen.
the Specsavers National Book Awards 2014 winners
Outstanding Achievement
Mary Berry CBE
Crime/Thriller Book of the Year
I Am Pilgrim
by Terry Hayes (Transworld)
Magic FM Autobiography/Biography of the Year
Please, Mister Postman
by Alan Johnson (Transworld)
Food & Drink Book of the Year
Plenty More
by Yotam Ottolenghi (Ebury Publishing)
Children's Book of the Year:
Awful Auntie
by David Walliams (HarperCollins)
Audible.co.uk Audiobook of the Year:
Awful Auntie
by David Walliams (HarperCollins)
International Author of the Year:
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler (Profile Books)
Books Are My Bag New Writer of the Year
The Miniaturist
by Jessie Burton (Pan Macmillan)
Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year:
The Shock of the Fall
by Nathan Filer (HarperCollins)
Non-fiction Book of the Year:
Love, Nina
by Nina Stibbe (Penguin Books)
UK Author of the Year:
Us by David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)
Further details of the awards and previous winners are available at the official website:
www.nationalbookawards.co.uk
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