Foyles won both national bookseller and children's bookseller of the year awards and HarperCollins was named publisher of the year at the Bookseller Industry Awards, held last night in London. For details and other winners, see the Bookseller's coverage.
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Too Shy for Show-and-Tell by Beth Bracken, illustrated by Jennifer Bell (Picture Window Books) was the grand prize winner of the 2012 Eric Hoffer Award. Among other category winners:
General fiction: Blood Clay by Valerie Nieman (Press 53)
Commercial fiction: Down Right Good by Karen Boyce (KFR Communications)
Poetry: Open Winter by Rae Gouirand (Bellday Books)
Children's: Bonyo Bonyo: The True Story of a Brave Boy from Kenya by Vanita Oelschlager, illustrated by Kristin Blackwood and Mike Blanc (Vanita Books)
YA: Save the Pearls, Part One: Revealing Eden by Victoria Foyt (Sand Dollar Press)
For winners in many other categories and for the winners of the Montaigne Medal, da Vinci Eye and First Horizon Award, click here.
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Finalists for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, presented annually to a book that best captures the "comic spirit" of P.G. Wodehouse, have been announced, the Telegraph reported. The winner, who will be named shortly before the Hay Festival next month, receives a jeroboam of Bollinger Special Cuvée, a case of Bollinger La Grande Année and a set of the 80-book Everyman Wodehouse collection; as well as a locally bred Gloucestershire Old Spot pig, which will be named after their winning title. This year's shortlisted books are:
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend
The Man Who Forgot His Wife by John O’Farrell
Jude in London by Julian Gough
Capital by John Lanchester