The British Fantasy Society announced the winners for the 2019 British Fantasy Awards on October 20, 2019 during FantasyCon 2019 at the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel in Glasgow, Scotland.
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
The British Fantasy Society has announced the shortlist for the 2019 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners for the 2018 British Fantasy Awards:
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)
The British Fantasy Society has announced the shortlist for the 2018 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)
The British Fantasy Society announced the winners of the 2017 British Fantasy Awards on October 1, 2017 during an awards ceremony held at Fantasycon 2017 at the Bull Hotel in Peterborough UK. The winners are:
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
The British Fantasy Society has announced the shortlist for the 2017 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)
The British Fantasy Society announced the British Fantasy Awards Winners on September 25, 2016 during an awards ceremony at FantasyCon 2016 at the Grand and Royal Hotels in Scarborough, England. The winners are:
The British Fantasy Society (BFS) announced the winners for the 2015 British Fantasy Awards on October 25, 2015 during an awards ceremony at FantasyCon 2015 in Nottingham England.
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the finalists for the 2015 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
On September 7, 2014 at FantasyCon in York the British Fantasy Society announced winners for the 2014 British Fantasy Awards.
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
The British Fantasy Society announced the winners of the 2013 British Fantasy Awards at a ceremony during the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, England on November 3, 2013. The winners are:
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards:
Best Novel (There are two awards in the best Novel category: The August Derleth Fantasy Award for best horror novel and the Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel):
The Robert Holdstock Award (fantasy)
The August Derleth Fantasy Award (horror)
The judges for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards have been empaneled. The judges are James Barclay, Hal Duncan, Maura McHugh, Esther Sherman, and Damien G. Walter. This year the awards will be decided by a jury of five volunteers, a first for the award. The jury will decide the winner from a list of four nominations as determined by the members of the BFS, and will also have the power ...Read More
Read moreActing chair Graham Joyce announced an Extraordinary General Meeting of the British Fantasy Society to be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, December 9, 2011 at the Mug House near London Bridge. The meeting will consider a proposal to reorganize the BFS Awards and will elect new officers to the BFS Committee.
More information, including directions to the meeting and instructions on how to nominate officers, can be found on ...Read More
Read moreThe British Fantasy Society has announced the winners of the 2010 British Fantasy Awards:
Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award):
Best Novella:
The winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2009 are:
Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award)
Best Novella
The Bookseller announced recipients of the British Book Awards, honoring The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus) for three related awards: Publicity Campaign of the Year, Agent of the Year, and Audiobook of the Year.
Also called the “Nibbies,” the British Book Awards “honours and celebrates the commercial successes of publishers, authors and bookshops.” The Testaments audiobook, narrated by Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Mae ...Read More
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The British Book Awards, or Nibbies, will hold a virtual awards ceremony on June 29, 2020. The original award ceremony, planned for May 18, 2020, was postponed due to disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.
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The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2020 British Book Awards, including several titles of genre interest.
Début Book of the Year
Audiobook Book of the Year
The Bookseller has announced 30 from 30, a “super list” of 30 books from the past 30 years of British Book Awards winners as finalists for a one-off award for the best book of the past three decades. Titles of genre interest include Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Myer (Little, Brown), Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury), Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (Scholastic), and The Lovely Bones ...Read More
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Shortlists for several Society of Authors (SoA) fiction awards have been announced, including titles and authors of genre interest.
Betty Trask Prize and Awards
The Betty Trask Prize and Awards gives £26,250 “for a first novel by a writer under 35” and is
The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2019 British Book Awards, including several titles of genre interest.
Children’s Book of the Year
Sara Taylor won the 2019 Eccles British Library Writer’s Award, given annually to one fiction and one non-fiction writer. Winners receive £20,000 and a one-year residency at the British Library’s North America collections “to develop a current writing project.”
The judges for 2019 were Mercedes Aguirre, Sarah Churchwell, Catherine Eccles, Phil Hatfield, and Erica Wagner. For more information, see the British Library website.
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Philip Pullman was awarded Author of the Year, and his La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust, narrated by Martin Sheen (Penguin Random House UK Audio), won Audiobook of the Year in the 2018 British Book Awards. Also called the “Nibbies,” The British Book Awards “honours and celebrates the commercial successes of publishers, authors and bookshops” with nominees in a variety of categories, including Debut Book of the Year, ...Read More
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The Bookseller has announced the nominees for the 2018 British Book Awards, including several titles of genre interest.
Children’s Book of the Year
Fiction Book of the Year
The British Fantasy Society website has announced the shortlist for the 2016 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
Best Horror Novel ...Read More
Read moreThe winners for the 2015 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards have been announced:
Best Novel
Best Short Story
The shortlist for the 2015 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards has been announced:
Best Novel
Best Short Story
The 2014 BSFA Awards winners were announced at the 66th Eastercon, Dysprosium, on April 5, 2015 in Heathrow.
Best Novel
The shortlist for the 2014 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards has been announced:
Best Novel
Best ...Read More
Read moreThe British Fantasy Society has announced the finalists for the 2014 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
Best ...Read More
Read moreThe British Fantasy Society has announced the finalists for the 2013 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:
Best Novel (the August Derleth Fantasy Award)
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)
