All books in running for the Indie summer reads awards revealed
Books/reading Former Laureate for Irish Fiction and twotime winner of the Costa Book of the Year Sebastian Barry, historian an TV presenter and journalist Dan Jones on list
The shortlist for the Indie Book Awards 2024, unveiling the best paperbacks to read this summer, was revealed today. The annual awards are exclusively curated by independent bookshops and run as part of Independent Bookshop Week which runs from Saturday June 15 to Saturday June 22.
The awards’ four categories are Fiction, Non-Fiction, Children’s Fiction and Picture Book.
This year’s shortlist includes multi award-winning author and TIME100 Next ‘Phenom’ RF Kuang, the former Laureate for Irish Fiction and two-time winner of the Costa Book of the Year Sebastian Barry, historian, TV presenter and journalist Dan Jones.
The shortlist: Fiction
Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang; Babel by RF Kuang; Weyward by Emilia Hart; Really, Good Actually by Monica Heisey; Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry; and Essex Dogs by Dan Jones.
Non-fiction
The Golden Mole: And Other Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell, illustrations by Talya Baldwin; The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space will Change the World by Tim Marshall; Divine Might by Natalie Haynes; Finding Hildasay by Christian Lewis; The Farmer’s Wife by Helen Rebanks; and Everything is Everything by Clive Myrie. Children’s fiction Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan; The Clockwork Conspiracy by Sam Sedgman; The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow, illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton; Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman; Kicked Out by AM Dassu; and The Wonder Brothers by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, illustrated by Steven Lenton.
Picture book
The Cat Who Couldn’t Be Bothered by Jack Kurland; The Great Storm Whale by Benji Davies; Grandad’s Pride by Harry Woodgate; The Dress in the Window by Robert Tregoning, illustrated by Pippa Curnick; Snail in Space by Rachel Bright, illustrated by Nadia Shireen; and There’s a Tiger on the Train by Mariesa Dulak, illustrated by Rebecca Cobb.
The winners will be announced on winners on Thursday June 20.