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British Book Awards 2013
The 2013 British Book Awards went to David Jason: My Life by David Jason (Biography/Autobiography of the Year), The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (Book of the Year) and Demon Dentist by David Walliams (Children's Book of the Year), with winners in 5 more categories. 32 books made the shortlist across 8 categories.
Winners
Biography/Autobiography of the Year
- David Jason: My Lifesource (opens in a new tab)
Book of the Year
Children's Book of the Year
- Demon Dentistsource (opens in a new tab)
Crime Thriller of the Year
- The Carriersource (opens in a new tab)
Food & Drink Book of the Year
New Writer of the Year
- Tigers in Red Weathersource (opens in a new tab)
Popular Fiction
- An Officer and a Spysource (opens in a new tab)
Popular Non-Fiction
- I Am Malalasource (opens in a new tab)
Shortlist
Book of the Year
- An Officer and a Spysource (opens in a new tab)
- David Jason: My Lifesource (opens in a new tab)
- Demon Dentistsource (opens in a new tab)
- Eatsource (opens in a new tab)
- Gone Girlsource (opens in a new tab)
- I Am Malalasource (opens in a new tab)
- Life After Lifesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Carriersource (opens in a new tab)
- Tigers in Red Weathersource (opens in a new tab)
Crime Thriller of the Year
- Apple Tree Yardsource (opens in a new tab)
- Dead Man's Timesource (opens in a new tab)
- Never Coming Backsource (opens in a new tab)
- Never Go Backsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Cuckoo's Callingsource (opens in a new tab)
New Writer of the Year
- Kiss Me Firstsource (opens in a new tab)
- Natural Causessource (opens in a new tab)
- The Bone Seasonsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Shock of the Fallsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Universe Versus Alex Woodssource (opens in a new tab)
Popular Fiction
- Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boysource (opens in a new tab)
- Oh Dear Silviasource (opens in a new tab)
- Solosource (opens in a new tab)
- The State We're Insource (opens in a new tab)
- The White Princesssource (opens in a new tab)
About the British Book Awards
Book of the Year categories only, shortlists plus winners. Audiobook categories and awards to people (Author, Illustrator, International Author, deciBel Writer, Outstanding Achievement) are skipped. Run as the Galaxy British Book Awards (2006-2009), Galaxy National Book Awards (2010-2011), Specsavers National Book Awards (2012-2014) and, under The Bookseller, the British Book Awards or Nibbies (2017-). No awards were held in 2015 or 2016. Year is the ceremony year: spring for 2006-2009 and 2017-2025, November-December for 2010-2014. Category names follow each era's own. For 2010-2014 Book of the Year was a public vote among that year's category winners, which are recorded as its shortlist; 2008-2009 Book of the Year and 2018-2025 Overall Book of the Year record the winner only, chosen from the category winners. Sources: The Bookseller and the official awards sites (archived on web.archive.org) where available; otherwise press coverage (The Guardian, The Independent, Publishing Perspectives, BBC, the awards' PR agency Taylor Herring) and, for 2013 Popular Fiction and Crime shortlists, a crime-fiction blog. 2017-2025 shortlists were transcribed from Wikipedia and each title checked against the cited page. 2013 Biography, Children's, Food & Drink and Popular Non-Fiction record winners only; the shortlists could not be recovered.
Organization: The Bookseller. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)
Shares the most books with
- Goodreads Choice Awards 140 shared books
- Dublin Literary Award 100 shared books
- Women's Prize for Fiction 44 shared books
- Booker Prize 31 shared books
- Costa Book Awards 31 shared books