Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year:
An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris (Cornerstone)
Also nominated: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, by Helen Fielding (Jonathan Cape); Oh Dear Silvia, by Dawn French (Michael Joseph); Solo, by William Boyd (Jonathan Cape); The State We’re In, by Adele Parks (Headline Review); and The White Princess, by Philippa Gregory (Simon & Schuster)
Crime & Thriller Book of the Year:
The Carrier, by Sophie Hannah (Hodder)
Also nominated: Apple Tree Yard, by Louise Doughty (Faber & Faber); Dead Man’s Time, by Peter James (Macmillan); Never Coming Back, by Tim Weaver (Penguin); Never Go Back, by Lee Child (Bantam Press); and The Cuckoo’s Calling, by Robert Galbraith, aka J.K. Rowling (Sphere)
International Author of the Year:
Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn (Orion)
Also nominated: And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini (Bloomsbury); Inferno, by Dan Brown (Bantam Press); The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown); The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton (Granta); and Wonder, by R.J. Palacio (Doubleday)
Waterstones UK Author of the Year:
Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson (Transworld)
Also nominated: Harvest, by Jim Crace (Picador); Instructions for a Heatwave, by Maggie O’Farrell (Tinder Press); The Crane Wife, by Patrick Ness (Canongate); The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman (Headline); and The Quarry, by Iain Banks (Little, Brown)
All of the 2013 winners here.
HT: The Rap Sheet
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