Harry’s memoir in running for two awards

The Duke of Sussex has been double-nominated at the British Book Awards for his controversial memoir Spare, as those up for gongs were celebrated for “starting conversations and pushing boundaries”.

The 39-year-old royal’s headline-grabbing book – in which he accused his brother, the Prince of Wales, of pushing him into a dog bowl in a row over the Duchess of Sussex – has been shortlisted for two book of the year prizes.

Harry used the tell-all book to make various claims about his family, including that William called Meg h and“abrasive ”, that the King was jealous of the Prince and Princess of Wales and charles refused to allow the Duchess of Sussex to join the Duke in Scotland as the late Queen was dying.

The ghost-written been given nods in the categories of narration audiobook non-fiction, which the Duke of Sussex provided, and non-fiction: narrative.

When the nib bi es were first launched in 1990, the King won author of the year.

The Duke of Sussex faces competition in non-fiction: narrative from dragons’ den entrepreneur steven bartlett for The Diary Of A CEO: The 33 Laws Of Business And Life, singer Britney Spears’ The Woman In Me and former Conservative MP Rory Stewart’s Politics On The Edge along with other nominees.

Harry is up against Bartlett for the audiobook nonfiction prize along with those also doing voice work, including comedian and actor David Mitchell for Unruly: A History of England's Kings And Queens, Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart's memoir Making It So and steve co og an character Alan Partridge' s fiction al autobiography Big Beacon.

Also given a nod in this category is a narration of 1992 novel Poor Things by Scots author Alasdair Gray, which was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film.