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Awards News | W. F. Howes Titles Shortlisted for 2020's Most Prestigious Literary Awards

Awards News | W. F. Howes Titles Shortlisted for 2020's Most Prestigious Literary Awards


At W. F. Howes we are focussing on the good news in these difficult times. It’s always exciting to share audiobook news and this month has been a busy one on the awards front.

A number of our authors have secured a spot on this year's British Book Awards shortlists, and we are very excited that one of our very own audiobooks, My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (narrated by the brilliant Weruche Opia), has been shortlisted in the Audiobook of the Year category. 
 

British Book Awards shortlisted titles we publish in library audio:


Audiobook of the Year
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, narration by Weruche Opia           
 

Fiction Book of the Year 
- The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman      
- The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes               
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo            
- Lies, Lies, Lies by Adele Parks 
    
Debut Book of the Year                 
- The Binding by Bridget Collins     
- The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins       
   
Crime & Thriller Book of the Year             
- How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid    
- My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite              
- Imposter by L J Ross        

Children’s Fiction Book of the Year           
- The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams & Tony Ross                

In other awards news, Imposter by L J Ross is a finalist for Best Audio Book - Fiction, at the 2020 New York Festivals Radio Awards, and Braithwaite has a spot on the Cameo Awards shortlist with My Sister, The Serial Killer.
 

The Women’s Prize for Fiction nominees were announced earlier this month with these brilliant titles in the running:

- Girl by Edna O’Brien
- The Mirror and The Light by Hilary Mantel
- How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee
- Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie 
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo 

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