Press Release
British Book Trade Award Nominations11/04/2008
The shortlists for the British Book Trade Awards (the book trade Nibbies) are announced today and the Group has a fistful of nominations:
Design & Production Award
Al Murray's The Pub Landlord’s Book of British Common Sense (Hodder & Stoughton)
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)
Frankfurt Book Fair Rights Professional of the Year
Diane Spivey (Little, Brown Book Group)
Marketing Campaign of the Year
Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman (Little, Brown)
Rebus20 with Ian Rankin (Orion)
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Midas Publicity Nibbie
Tamsin Kitson and Alexandra Richardson for Alex James’ Bit of a Blur (Little, Brown) winners of The Borders Award for Celebrity Hardback.
Emma Knight and Tara Gladden for Jasper Fforde’s First Among Sequels (Hodder) winners of the Bookseller Award for Hardback Fiction
The winners will be announced at the BA Conference on 13 May.