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The vii category shortlists for the 2018 Books of the Year Awards are announced today past times Chair of the Judges together with Editor of The Bookseller Philip Jones who said: “The truthful range, breadth together with brilliance of writing together with publishing is demonstrated inwards these shortlists, from the unexpected triumphs to the build juggernauts. The twelvemonth 2017 was marked past times large books that got bigger, break-outs that broke further, together with conversation starters that spoke louder.”   Giants of the children’s mass world David Walliams together with Philip Pullman, line-up amongst the remarkable breakout success of debut Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, household names Jamie Oliver, Tim Peake and Bruce Dickinson, fiction megastars Lee Child and Marian Keyes, the mass that sparked a National conversation, Why I’m no longer talking to white people close race by Reni Eddo-Lodge together with the international bestselling phenomenon Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.   Reflecting on the Books of the Year shortlists Philip Jones likewise said   “In a twelvemonth that was marked past times notable instances of event-publishing, to a greater extent than or less stand-out novel names, together with the provide to shape of to a greater extent than or less greats, at that topographic point was likewise show of a broadening of the market, with debuts from Angie Thomas, Gill Sims together with Gail Honeyman mixing it with the fiction blockbusters together with the non-fiction giants. The Books of the Year shortlists reverberate the forcefulness together with manufacture of a sector that tin live both Happy together with challenged. In 2017 The British mass merchandise was valued at £1.6bn, it was the twelvemonth when a lot worked.”   The British Book Awards’ Books of the Year, which were introduced inwards 2016 to celebrate the books that demonstrate the existent value of publishing, are the solely literary awards inwards the U.K. that champions books that involve been both well-written together with brilliantly published. This year, manufacture journal The Bookseller, which runs the Awards has farther expanded the 2018 ceremony to innovate a novel abide by for the best Audiobook equally an acknowledgement of the increment together with popularity of the good books market. The other half dozen categories are Fiction, Debut, Crime & Thriller, Non-fiction: Narrative; Non-fiction: Lifestyle together with Children’s Book of the Year.   The shortlists, which consist of half dozen books inwards each of the vii categories together with which uniquely honour non only the writer together with illustrator of a championship but the entire publishing team, are:   Books of the Year – 2018 shortlists     Crime & Thriller BOOK OF THE YEAR   The Midnight Line past times Lee Child (Bantam Press) The Girl Before past times JP Delaney (Quercus) The Dry past times Jane Harper (Abacus) Spook Street past times Mick Herron (John Murray) He Said/She Said past times Erin Kelly (Mulholland) Behind Her Eyes past times Sarah Pinborough (HarperCollins)       Fiction BOOK OF THE YEAR   The Break past times Marian Keyes (Michael Joseph) Birdcage Walk past times Helen Dunmore (Hutchinson/Windmill) Winter by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton) How to Stop Time past times Matt Haig (Canongate) Reservoir 13 past times Jon McGregor (Fourth Estate) City of Friends past times Joanna Trollope (Mantle)   Debut BOOK OF THE YEAR   Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Viking) Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine past times Gail Honeyman (Harper Fiction) Sirens past times Joseph Knox (Doubleday) Conversations with Friends past times Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber) Why Mummy Drinks past times Gill Sims (HarperCollins) My Absolute Darling past times Gabriel Tallent (HarperCollins)   Children’s BOOK OF THE YEAR   Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls past times Elena Favilli together with Francesca Cavallo (Particular Books) Oi Cat! by Kes Gray, Jim Field (Illus.) (Hodder Children's Books)      The Lost Words          past times Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (Illus.) (Penguin Random House Children’s) La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One past times Philip Pullman, Chris Wormell (Illus.) (David Fickling books inwards assoc. with Penguin Random House Childrens) The Hate U Give past times Angie Thomas (Walker Books)  BAD DAD past times David Walliams (Harper Collins Children’s Books)   Non-fiction: Lifestyle BOOK OF THE YEAR   Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand (Bluebird) Happy: Finding joy inwards every hateful solar daytime together with letting larn of perfect past times Fearne Cotton (Orion Spring) 5 Ingredients past times Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph) The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, stories & 100 essential recipes for midwinter past times Nigel Slater (HarperCollins) The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to live Calm inwards a Busy World past times Haemin Sunim (Penguin Life) Cooking for Family together with Friends by Joe Wicks (Bluebird)   Non-fiction: Narrative BOOK OF THE YEAR   What Does This Button Do? By Bruce Dickinson (Harper Non-Fiction) Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race past times Reni Eddo-Lodge (Bloomsbury Circus) This is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor past times Adam Kay (Picador) I AM, I AM, I AM: Seventeen Brushes with Death past times Maggie O'Farrell (Tinder Press) Ask an Astronaut: My Guide to Life inwards Space past times Tim Peake (Century) The Secret Life of Cows past times Rosamund Young (Faber & Faber)   Audiobook BOOK OF THE YEAR   Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection past times Arthur Conan Doyle, Narrator: Stephen Fry (Audible) The Girl Before by J. P. Delaney, Narrators: Emilia Fox, Finty Williams, Lise Aagaard Knudsen (Quercus) Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman, Narrator: Cathleen McCarron (HarperCollins) La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust volume one past times Philip Pullman, Narrator: Michael Sheen (Penguin Random House U.K. Audio) Kid Normal by Greg James together with Chris Smith, Narrators: Greg James together with Chris Smith (W F Howes/Nudged Audiobooks) How non to live a Boy past times Robert Webb, Narrator: Robert Webb (Audible Studio)   The category winners volition live decided past times vii panels of judges, together with a split panel volition larn on to select the overall Book of the Year. The category winners together with the Book of the Year volition live revealed at a glamorous awards ceremony on Mon fourteen May at Grosvenor House inwards cardinal London which volition convey together authors, publishers, booksellers together with literary agents for a nighttime celebrating the entire mass industry. New for 2018, the British Book Awards volition likewise celebrate an writer together with illustrator who involve achieved outstanding commercial success amongst making a genuine contribution to the full general wellness of the mass world.   Nigel Roby, Publisher of The Bookseller, said: “The British Book Awards are close recognising all the elements that contribute to a good for you lot mass merchandise together with ensuring that to a greater extent than books give to a greater extent than readers. Having an abide by for Author of the Year makes absolute sense. Similarly, illustrators are a vital business office of expanding mass readership, peculiarly amidst immature readers, together with should live recognised.”   Produced past times leading manufacture journal The Bookseller, the British Book Awards correspond a high signal inwards the mass trade’s calendar, with winners including Publisher of the Year, Independent Bookshop of the Year and Editor of the Year. The Books of the Year awards recognise the publishing equally good equally the books, with both writer together with publisher equally recipients of the prize.