Tessa Hadley won the £10,000 (about $12,850) Edge Hill Short Story Prize for Bad Dreams. The prize is awarded annually by Edge Hill University for excellence in a published single author short story collection.
"I love this prize because it's the only one for a whole collection and takes the form seriously," Hadley told the Bookseller. "There are two ways that this prize is important. One, if you're any good as a writer you're always full of self-doubt so you need that confirmation from the outsider, and two, winning the prize means people actually take notice of your work."
Sarah Hall won the £1,000 (about $1,285) Reader's Prize, selected by 20 Edge Hill Creative Writing students, and MA Creative Writing student Julia Clayton won the MA Prize for most promising student writer.
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John Carreyrou has won the £30,000 (about $38,555) 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award for Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Knopf). The five runners-up each receive £10,000 ($12,850). The award recognizes "the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues."
Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times and chair of the panel of judges, said called Bad Blood "a brilliant piece of enterprise journalism. Carreyrou cracked the story of Theranos despite threats. He just gives us the facts and they are devastating. It's well written and reads at times like a thriller."
Kevin Sneader, global managing partner of McKinsey & Company, commented: "Bad Blood is a distinctive piece of work. There are lessons here about the importance of governance, and the proper trade-offs between fostering innovation and conducting due diligence. Above all, it combines deep reporting with the narrative pulse of a well-told detective story."
In addition, Andrew Leon Hanna won the £15,000 (about $19,280) Bracken Bower Prize, which is "designed to encourage young authors to tackle emerging business themes, with a focus on the challenges and opportunities presented by growth," for his book proposal, 25 Million Sparks, which examines the rise of refugee entrepreneurs in a global crisis.