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BAMB Readers Awards shortlists revealed
06/10/2016
The shortlists:
Biography & Autobiography
Alive Alive Oh!
by Diana Athill
The Invention of Nature
by Andrea Wulf
The Last Act of Love
by Cathy Rentzenbrink
The Road to Little Dribbling
by Bill Bryson
At the Existentialist Café
by Sarah Bakewell
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
by Chris Packham
Children's
One
by Sarah Crossan
Beetle Boy
by MG Leonard
The Bear and the Piano
by David Litchfield
Day the Crayons Came Home
by Drew Daywalt
The Detective Dog
by Julia Donaldson
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
by Patrick Ness
Fiction
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
by Max Porter
The Loney
by Andrew Hurley
This Must Be the Place
by Maggie O'Farrell
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
by Joanna Cannon
The Muse
by Jessie Burton
The Green Road
by Anne Enright
Non-Fiction
Reasons to Stay Alive
by Matt Haig
SPQR
by Mary Beard
The Silk Roads
by Peter Frankopan
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanthi
Landmarks
by Robert Macfarlane
It's All in Your Head
by Suzanne O'Sullivan
Breakthrough Author*
Joanna Cannon;
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
Andrew Michael Hurley;
The Loney
Lisa McInerney;
The Glorious Heresies
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan;
Harmless Like You
Amy Liptrot;
The Outrun
Han Kang;
The Vegetarian
Kit de Waal;
My Name is Leon
Abi Elphinstone;
The Shadow Keeper
*This award is specifically for the author rather than a specific title, but here are their associated titles
The five shortlists were chosen by booksellers across the UK & Ireland: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Biography & Autobiography, Children's and Breakthrough Author. The National Book Tokens Readers Choice Award voted by book lovers completes the set. Visit the National Book Tokens
website
and vote now to be entered into a prize draw to win one of ten £100 National Book Tokens to spend in your favourite bookshop.
Voting is now open and closes on 14th November 2016, with the winners announced in 24th November 2016.
nationalbooktokens/vote
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