BOOK OF THE YEAR PAGETURNER
The Pageturner award celebrates bestselling books hailing from all genres and formats. All the shortlisted books have cut through in a competitive market, delivering everything from a comforting read to pacy thrillers and a love story through the ages, with impressive sales and retail engagement.
HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY Bella Mackie’s début enjoyed success in hardback and the paperback was no different. The Borough Press released an exclusive Waterstones pre-order edition of How to Kill Your Family with a “sinister” cover and personalised postcards in the run-up to Christmas. Outreach featured London Underground and National Rail advertising.
THE KEEPER OF STORIES Sally Page’s début, about a cleaner who will tell any story but her own, was supported by an award-winning marketing campaign by One More Chapter which propelled The Keeper of Stories to success. For the first time, the publisher created a limited run of gold-foiled proofs to drive pre-publication buzz, while a diuzz, whilea d gital read- along g
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THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES Elif Shafak’s most commer- cially successful novel yet, this tale of love and legacy in Cyprus, 1974, is written from the perspective of a fig tree. The narratorial risk paid off: the Viking team worked hard to position Shafak beyond the literary fiction genre, with the novel garnering widespread prize recognition, and it was a “Between the Covers” pick.
VERITY Dubbed the “queen of BookTok”, Colleen Hoover’s only suspense title to date reached epic heights in 2022. An arresting cover featuring original artwork, on a novel about a writer who uncovers a horrifying secret about the wife of her employer, was a winning combination for Sphere. Verity was the third-bestselling paperback of 2022—and Hachette’s top seller.
SUNDAY’S CHILD Six years of publishing the “nation’s favourite saga writer” came to fruition with Sunday’s Child, the fourth instalment in the Rockwood Chronicles, which clinched Dilly Court’s first overall UK number one, a new career high after 40-plus books. HarperFiction secured a partnership with Tesco as a core retailer and built a first Book of the Month promotion for Court with The Works.
THE SUMMER THAT CHANGED US A Sunday Times bestseller, The Summer That Changed Us was Cathy Bramley’s biggest paperback yet. Her beach-set read, following three women who slowly become friends, was backed by an ambitious three-year planning session from Orion Fiction, resulting in a new cover design and placement in all the major supermarkets for the first time.
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