The shortlists in full
Podcast of the Year The Waterstones Podcast (Waterstones) The Comma Press Podcast (Comma Press) Penguin Podcast (PRH Audio) Backlisted (Unbound) Simplify (Blinkist) This is Spoke (PRH, Fremantle and BMG) Sex Power Money with Sara Pascoe (Faber)
FutureBook of the Year (Sponsor: Frankfurt Book Fair) HAG, an audio-exclusive short story collection (Audible) Madame Badobedah by Sophie Dahl (Bolinda) Ladybird Audio Adventures (Penguin Random House) Seven Days of Sound Meditation (HarperCollins) Penguin Classics in Audio ((Penguin Random House)
Today: A History of our World Through 60 years of Conversations & Controversies (Octopus Publishing Group) Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (Bonnier Books UK) ESC CardioMed (OUP)
Campaign of the Year My Sister, the Serial Killer (Atlantic) Buy One Give One Away (Editora Belas Letras) Tin Can Cook (Pan Macmillan) Penguin Classics in Audio (Penguin Random House Audio) Bookshop Day (Booksellers Association/Midas PR) Lies Lies Lies (HQ)
BookTech Start-Up of the Year (See also p14) Vika Books MY VLF ckbk NoisyBook Make Our Book DeepZen
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(HarperCollins); Today: A History of our World Through 60 years of Conversations and Controversies (Octopus); and, Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (Bonnier Books UK). The only text title listed is reference website ESC CardioMed from the European Societ of Cardiology, together with Oxford Universit Press.
Up for Campaign of the Year
are Atlantic for its work on Oyinkan Braithwaite’s novel My Sister, the Serial Killer; the Booksellers Association and Midas PR for Bookshop Day; HQ for its promotion of Lies Lies
ONLY ONE TEXT TITLE, FROM OUP, IS IN THE RUNNING FOR FUTUREBOOK OF THE YEAR
Lies by Adele Parks; Brazilian publisher Editora Belas Letras for its “Buy One Give One Away” promotion; Penguin Random House Audio for Penguin Classics in Audio; and Pan Macmillan for its campaign for Jack Monroe’s cookbook Tin Can Cook. In line for the BookTech
pitch-off are Vika Books; MY VLF; ckbk; NoisyBook; DeepZen; and Make Our Book. The six start-ups will pitch at the FutureBook Conference at 4 p.m., with the winner to be announced at the end of the event. For more on the BookTech shortlistees, see p14. Judges for the awards were editor Philip Jones, The Bookseller’s comment editor Molly Flat, freelance marketeer Miriam Robinson, journalist and “Mostly Lit” co-host Alex Holmes, and representing sponsor the Frankfurt Book Fair, Alex Hippisley-Cox.
The FutureBook Awards will take place at FutureBook Live, The Book- seller’s annual publishing conference, held in London on 25th November.
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