Nibbies 2020 shortlists announced
20 March 2020
On Friday 20 March, The Bookseller announced the shortlists for
the British Book Awards (Nibbies) 2020. We're delighted to see
members Jenny Brown, Scottish Book Trust and HarperCollins on
them.
Jenny Brown of Jenny
Brown Associates has been shortlisted for the Literary Agent of
the Year Award. The judges said: Brown's Edinburgh-based
business raised the profiles of narrative non-fiction, crime and
literary fiction writers, including Kathleen Jamie, Shaun Bythell
and Clare Hunter. Beyond the agency, she did a lot of work to
promote Scottish publishing too.
Scottish Book Trust is shortlisted for
the Marketing Strategy of the Year Award for Book Week Scotland
2019. The judges said: The annual celebration is in its
eighth year. With more than 1,300 events and a free Digital
Festival around the theme of conversation, its media reach grew by
25% year on year.
HarperCollins has a slew of
shortlistings for itself and its imprints including:
Collins - Academic, Educational and Professional
Publisher of the Year (for the eighth time in nine years);
HarperCollins Children's Books - Children's
Publisher of the Year; Avon - Imprint of the Year;
and HarperCollins - Publisher of the Year. In the
books awards, the following are shortlisted: Wild
Swans by Jung Chang - 30 from 30
special award; The Beast of Buckingham
Palace by David Walliams, illustrated by Tony Ross
- Children's Fiction Book of the Year;
Lies, Lies, Lies by Adele Parks (HQ) - Fiction
Book of the Year; The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
- Fiction: Crime and Thriller award;
and The Binding by Bridget Collins (Borough Press) -
Fiction: Début Book of the Year;
Earlier in the week, Sandstone
Press was announced as the Scotland winner of Small
Press of the Year and is therefore shortlisted for the overall
Small Press of the Year.
On the bookshop front, congratulations to The
Edinburgh Bookshop shortlisted for Children's
Bookseller of the Year and also to Lighthouse, the Scotland winner
of the regional and country round of the Independent Bookshop of
the Year Award 2020. Lighthouse is shortlisted for the overall
Independent Bookshop of the Year.
For the full shortlists, see the British Book Awards on The Bookseller
website.
The winners will be announced on 29 June 2020.