Overview
- Steeds’ debut topped a shortlist that included Sir David Attenborough and Colin Butfield’s Ocean and Suzanne Collins’ Sunrise on the Reaping.
- The novel is set in 1920s Provence and follows an enigmatic painter, his niece, and a British journalist.
- Waterstones head of books Bea Carvalho praised The Artist as “gorgeously escapist” and called Steeds a writer of “staggering, rare talent.”
- BAFTA-winning animation director Mikey Please won Children’s Book of the Year for his debut picture book The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods.
- Chef Tim Siadatan’s pasta cookbook Padella was named Gift of the Year, with all winners receiving nationwide shop support and online promotion to more than one million readers.