THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS JUDGES BOOKS OF THE YEAR JUDGES


TRICIA ADAMS Director School Library Association


PHILIP JONES EDITOR THE BOOKSELLER


Sixty individual judges helped select the winners at this year’s British Book Awards. Repeat after me, 60 judges. I’d like to thank each and every one of them: we take the judging process incredibly seriously, with the sifting of entries beginning in February and the judging days taking place in March and April. We ask each judge to review the submissions and books ahead of the judging days, and come to the sessions with a probing and open mind. For the trade awards there is a blind vote, meaning that even the judges won’t know who has won until the awards are bestowed on the night; the book judges settled on a winner through collective agreement (and negotiation). I’d like to thank the chairs of each of their respective categories, and Cathy Rentzenbrink who, as the overall chair of the books categories, led her team with real brio.


JUNO DAWSON Author


SUZI FEAY Writer and editor


ALISON FINCH Forward planning researcher BBC Radio


PETER FLORENCE Director Hay Festival


RACHEL FOSTER Books editor Mumsnet


KATHARINE FRY Trade buying manager Blackwell’s


CHARLOTTE HEATHCOTE Literary editor Daily Express and S Magazine


ARIFA AKBAR Journalist, critic and columnist Freelance


ERIC ANDERSON Author


CLAIRE ARMITSTEAD Associate editor, culture The Guardian


SAM BAKER Co-founder and c.e.o. The Pool


DAMIAN BARR Author


MATT BATES Fiction buyer WH Smith Travel Chair of Début Book of the Year


DOROTHY KOOMSON Author and journalist


KATIE LAW Deputy literary editor Evening Standard


SHARMAINE LOVEGROVE Literary, film and TV scout and literary editor, Elle


TAMARA MACFARLANE Owner Tales on Moon Lane


SANDY MAHAL Director Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature


LUCY MENENDEZ Books director WH Smith


ROBBIE MILLEN Literary editor The Times


SHEILA O’REILLY Events manager Village Books


SUZANNE O’SULLIVAN Author


CATHY RENTZENBRINK Contributing editor The Bookseller Chair of Books of the Year and Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year


CAROLINE SANDERSON Associate editor and non-fiction previewer The Bookseller Chair of Non-Fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year


04. BRITISH BOOK AWARDS - WINNERS 2017


JUNE SARPONG Television presenter and broadcaster


DREDA SAY MITCHELL Author


SARAH SHAFFI Online editor and producer The Bookseller Deputy chair, Book of the Year


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