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ibrowsebooks @ibrowsebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Waterstones Book of the Year Shortlist 2024
Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist 2025
Books Are My Bag Readers Award Fiction Shortlist 2024
Nero Book Award Debut Fiction Shortlist 2024

ibrowsebooks @ibrowsebooks.bsky.social · 1d

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Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award Winner 2025
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Winner 2024
Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize Winner 2024
Debut Book of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2025
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Glorious Exploits

Check out Glorious Exploits - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 2...

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ibrowsebooks @ibrowsebooks.bsky.social · 7d

Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about the Scottish Highlands and Islands
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about women and the sea
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about silence
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about recovery
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about connecting with nature

ibrowsebooks @ibrowsebooks.bsky.social · 7d

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The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
Wainwright Prize Winner 2016
PEN Ackerley Prize Winner 2017
Ondaatje Prize Shortlist 2017
Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2017
Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist 2016
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The Outrun

Check out The Outrun - THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2017 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ...

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T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 14d

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 16d

This week we were happy to announce the winner of this year's Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, neurologist and debut author Masud Husain, who won for his book 'Our Brains, Our Selves'. #SciBooks https://royalsociety.org/news/2025/10/science-book-prize-winner-announced/

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 17d

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.

Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!

Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

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ibrowsebooks @ibrowsebooks.bsky.social · 14d

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Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
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Rubyfruit Jungle

Check out Rubyfruit Jungle - Fifty years after its first publication, discover the classic coming-of-age novel that confronts prejudice and injustice with power and humanity. W...

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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 20d

We're excited to reveal the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist, celebrating the finest historical non-fiction works from the past year.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors! 👏📚

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 27d

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

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ibrowsebooks @ibrowsebooks.bsky.social · 23d

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Butter by Asako Yuzuki translated by Polly Barton
Debut Book of the Year Winner - British Book Awards 2025
Waterstones Book of the Year Winner 2024
Books Are My Bag Readers Breakthrough Author Winner 2024
Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger Shortlist 2025
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Butter

Check out Butter - THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SENSATION WINNER OF WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR ...

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Historia – the HWA @historia-hwa.bsky.social · Sep 15

👑📚The 2025 HWA Crown Awards longlists are revealed on Wednesday!
3️⃣categories: Gold, Debut and Non-fiction
12 books in each category.
That's 36 of the best historical books of 2024-25!
Live announcements in the former bird place. Then full details of all books published in Historia
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Sep 17

ICYMI: Comedian Sara Pascoe and Oxford academic Nussaibah Younis are among those shortlisted for the 2025 Comedy Women in Print Prize 👇 #BookSky

Sara Pascoe and Nussaibah Younis shortlisted for 2025 Comedy Women in Print Prize

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize! englishassociation.ac.uk/michael-murp... Winner announced on #NationalPoetryDay!

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ibrowsebooks @ibrowsebooks.bsky.social · Sep 13

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Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019
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Night Boat to Tangier

Check out Night Boat to Tangier - LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS, THE...

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The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social · Sep 10

We’re delighted to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize Winners!

From powerful storytelling to vital conservation work and bold illustration, this year’s winners reflect the richness, urgency, and joy of writing about the natural world.

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Sep 9

The British Academy Book Prize 2025 shortlist is here!

Each book offers a new perspective on issues of global importance, driven by rigorous research and an ability to tell powerful stories in an engaging and compelling way.

📖 Discover the full list here:

https://bit.ly/4glo8Jo

Promotional image for The British Academy Book Prize 2025 shortlist, featuring a diagonal divide with various book covers displayed on a teal and dark blue background.

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ibrowsebooks @ibrowsebooks.bsky.social · Sep 7

BBC Radio 2 Book Club – 1st April 2022
The Top 100 Sunday Times Bestsellers 53

ibrowsebooks @ibrowsebooks.bsky.social · Sep 7

Comedy Women in Print Prize Runner Up 2022/23
Debut Book of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2023
Debut Crown Shortlist 2023
Christopher Bland Prize Shortlist 2023
Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize Shortlist 2022
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2023

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ibrowsebooks @ibrowsebooks.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Paul Torday Memorial Prize Winner 2023
Books Are My Bag Readers Award Readers Choice Winner 2023
Books Are My Bag Readers Award Breakthrough Author Winner 2023
Waterstones Author of the Year 2022
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Lessons in Chemistry a book by Bonnie Garmus.

THE FUNNY AND INSPIRING, MULTI-AWARD-WINNING BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD, now a major Apple TV+ series starring Brie LarsonA Book of the Year for: Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, Ne...

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Sep 4

Chosen from 350 entries, the longlist for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize has been revealed, with "all human life being found in the pages of these 12 remarkable books" 👇 #BookSky

Baillie Gifford Prize 2025 longlist revealed

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ibrowsebooks @ibrowsebooks.bsky.social · Aug 23

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The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Winner 2016
Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2016
Waverton Good Read Shortlist 2015/2016
BBC Radio 2 Book Club – 1st June 2015
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The Improbability of Love: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 a book by Hannah Rothschild.

WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK'an ingenious meditation on the true value ...

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yabookprize.bsky.social @yabookprize.bsky.social · Aug 21

And the winner of the #YABookPrize 2025 is... Songlight by Moira Buffini ( ‪@faberbooks.bsky.social‬ )🏆✨

A stand-out speculative novel that shines a light on our own world, says the chair of the YA Book Prize Caroline Carpenter 📚

Find out more here 👉 www.thebookseller.com/awards/the-y...

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ibrowsebooks @ibrowsebooks.bsky.social · Aug 9

Guardian Top 10s: Andrew Miller's top 10 historical novels
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 books about Italy
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about Europe

ibrowsebooks @ibrowsebooks.bsky.social · Aug 9

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Independent 40 Books to Read Before You Die
Abe Books 50 Essential Historical Fiction Books
Guardian Top 10s: Julian Critchley's top 10 reads
Guardian Top 10s: Romesh Gunesekera's top 10 island books

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