Awards
PPC Annual Awards Ceremony – Tuesday 2nd March!
Here is the link you’ll need to join the 56th annual PPC awards which will be held virtually at 7pm, Tuesday 2nd March.
We’d love as many of you as possible to join us to celebrate everyone’s hard work throughout the strange year that 2020 turned out to be and to raise a glass to those shortlisted as well as all publicists across the industry. Please email the PPC for the link.
The link will be live from 7pm and we’ll aim to start as soon as we can after that. Please can all shortlistees make sure their name on screen is their name so we can find you (don’t worry, no need for a speech!) The hashtag for the evening is #ppcawards21 so please do tweet your support too.
Here is the awards booklet link again in case you missed it last week – download here.
PPC Annual Award Shortlist – congratulations everyone!
It is with great pleasure that we announce the shortlist for the PPC Annual Awards given for the best campaigns carried out by book publicists in 2020.
A MASSIVE congratulations to all shortlisted publicists and a HUGE thank you to all who took the time to submit this year. The quality of submissions was so high, particularly impressive given the challenges faced by us all.
Could the shortlistees please email your final form to ppcawards20@gmail.com adding your name and shortlisted category to the subject line. Please could you send them by Tuesday 9th February so our judges have plenty of time to read them. Any forms not received by the 9th February may result in that campaign being removed from the shortlist.
We would like to invite PPC members to join us for a virtual annual awards evening on Tuesday 2nd March, please add the date to your calendars. We’ll sadly be missing out on the champagne and enormous bowls of moreish chocolate mousse this year but join us over Zoom for an evening celebrating all of the fabulous shortlisted campaigns and publicists.
PPC Annual Awards Shortlist
The Waterstones Hardback Fiction Award
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende – Philippa Cotton, Bloomsbury
Weather by Jenny Offill – Lamorna Elmer, Granta
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel – Patrick Hargadon, Fourth Estate
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell – Georgina Moore, Midas PR for Headline
Sisters by Daisy Johnson – Mia Quibell-Smith, Vintage
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett – Millie Seaward, Little, Brown
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers – Virginia Woolstencroft, Orion
The Bookseller Award for Hardback Non-Fiction
House of Music by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason – Kate Bland, Oneworld
The Wim Hof Method by Wim Hof – Ellie Crisp, Ebury
The Rules of Contagion by Adam Kucharski – Drew Jerrison, Profile
Motherwell by Deborah Orr – Leanne Oliver, Orion
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad – Ella Patel, Quercus
Dear Life by Rachel Clarke – Grace Vincent, Little, Brown
How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford – Virginia Woolstencroft, Orion
Best Celebrity Campaign
It Takes Blood and Guts by Skin – Jess Barratt, Simon & Schuster
A Del of a Life by David Jason – Charlotte Bush, Rachel Kennedy and Lydia Spooner, Cornerstone
Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand – Sophie Calder, HQ
It’s a Love Story by Shirlie and Martin Kemp – Sarah Harwood, Harwood PR for Mirror Books
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman – Olivia Mead and Chloe Davies, Penguin General
A Promised Land by Barack Obama – Poppy North and Jane Gentle, Penguin General
The Sanest Guy in the Room by Don Black – Jo Wickham, Little, Brown
Let’s Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood by Jasper Rees – Virginia Woolstencroft, Orion
The Mo Siewcharran Award for Best Debut Campaign
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam – Emilie Chambeyron, Bloomsbury
Poor by Caleb Femi – Emma Draude and Annabelle Wright, ed public relations and Sarah Wright and Thi Dinh, Penguin Press
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid – Ros Ellis, Bloomsbury
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart – Camilla Elworthy, Pan Macmillan
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan – Francesca Pearce, Orion and Elaine Egan, Hachette Ireland
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld – Josh Smith and Connor Hutchinson, Faber & Faber
This Lovely City by Louise Hare – Joe Thomas, HQ
Best Crime & Thriller Campaign sponsored by Bloody Scotland
Just My Luck by Adele Parks – Sophie Calder, HQ
The Guest List by Lucy Foley – Jennifer Harlow, HarperFiction
Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh – Alexandra Layt, Orion
Seven Lies by Elizabeth Kay – Stephanie Melrose, Little, Brown
Killing For Company by Brian Masters – Lydia Spooner, Cornerstone
The Award for Best Lifestyle, Gift and Humour Campaign sponsored by Books Are My Bag
Bread Therapy by Pauline Beaumont – Niamh Anderson, Hodder & Stoughton
Skincare by Caroline Hirons – Megan Carver and Becca Newson, Carver PR for HQ
Word Perfect by Susie Dent – Alice Herbert, John Murray Press
Lunar Living by Kirsty Gallagher – Myrto Kalavrezou, Hodder & Stoughton
All on the Board by All on the Board – Jenny Platt, Hodder & Stoughton
Accidentally Wes Anderson by Wally Koval – Ellen Turner, Orion
The Netgalley Award for Paperback Original – Fiction or Non-Fiction
Duty of Care by Dr Dominic Pimenta – Shona Abhyankar, ed public relations for Welbeck Publishing
Untamed by Glennon Doyle – Ellie Crisp, Ebury
Spoon Fed by Tim Spector – Alison Davies, Vintage
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami – Alice Dewing, Pan Macmillan
The Boy Between by Amanda Prowse and Josiah Hartley – Emma Draude and Annabelle Wright, ed public relations for Little A
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo – Rebecca McCarthy, Simon & Schuster
The Edinburgh International Book Festival Award for Best Generic Campaign
UK Launch of Bookshop.org – Edwina Boyd-Gibbons and Rhiannon Carroll, Midas PR
Summer Reading Challenge – Emma Draude, Shona Abhyankar and Annabelle Wright, ed public relations
Axe the Reading Tax – Jasmine Joynson, Publishers Association
Dearly by Margaret Atwood – Fran Owen, Mari Yamazaki and Mia Quibell-Smith, Vintage
A Year of Bernardine Evaristo – Anna Ridley, Penguin General
Puffin’s 80th Birthday – Tania Vian-Smith and Sophia Dryden, Penguin Random House Children’s and Katie French, Premier
Best Children’s and YA Celebrity Campaign
The Wizard in My Shed by Simon Farnaby – Lucy Clayton, Hachette Children’s Group
My First Cook Book by David Atherton – Kirsten Cozens, Walker Books
Is There Anybody Out There? by Dara O Briain – Rachel Phillips, Scholastic
Break the Mould by Sinead Burke – Emily Thomas, Hachette Children’s Group and Elaine Egan, Hachette Ireland
The Day I Fell into a Fairytale by Ben Miller – Eve Wersocki Morris, Simon & Schuster Children’s
Anything is Possible by Gareth Southgate – Klara Zak and Lydia Spooner, Cornerstone
Cookery Book Award
Wean in 15 by Joe Wicks – Jessica Duffy, Pan Macmillan
Nadiya Bakes by Nadiya Hussain – Laura Nicol and Ella Watkins, Michael Joseph
The Batch Lady by Suzanne Mulholland – Lucy Richardson, HQ
The Flavour Equation by Nik Sharma – Cora Siedlecka, Abrams & Chronicle
The Hairy Bikers Veggie Feasts by The Hairy Bikers – Virginia Woolstencroft and Alainna Hadjigeorgiou, Orion
The PPC Award for Best Sports Book Campaign
What a Flanker by James Haskell – Lucy Brown, Harper Non-Fiction
Born Fighter by Ruqsana Begum – Harriett Collins, Simon & Schuster
Beyond Possible by Nimsdai Purja – Rebecca Mundy, Hodder & Stoughton
My Life in Red and White by Arsene Wenger – Maura Wilding and Alexandra Layt, Orion
The Children’s Book Award sponsored by the Daily Mail
While We Can’t Hug by Eoin McLaughlin – Bethany Carter, Faber & Faber
The Book of Hopes by Katherine Rundell – Beatrice Cross, Bloomsbury Children’s
Dogger’s Christmas by Shirley Hughes – Ellen Grady, Penguin Random House Children’s
Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright! by Fiona Waters – Rebecca Mason and Sian Taylor, Nosy Crow
Death Sets Sail by Robin Stevens – Harriet Venn and Chloe Parkinson, Penguin Random House Children’s
A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll – Annabelle Wright, ed public relations for Knights Of
Best YA Campaign
A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood – Harriet Dunlea, Scholastic
Black & British: A Short Essential History by David Olusoga – Amber Ivatt and Sabrina Maharjan, Macmillan Children’s Books
Punching the Air by Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi – Tina Mories, HarperCollins Children’s Books
And the Stars Were Burning Brightly by Danielle Jawando – Eve Wersocki Morris, Simon & Schuster Children’s
Best Newcomer Award sponsored by Jo James
Bread Therapy by Pauline Beaumont – Niamh Anderson, Hodder & Stoughton
The Artful Dickens by John Mullan – Ella Harold, Bloomsbury
Lunar Living by Kirsty Gallagher – Myrto Kalavrezou, Hodder & Stoughton
Clanlands by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish – Kate Keehan, Hodder & Stoughton
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad – Ella Patel, Quercus
Killing for Company by Brian Masters – Lydia Spooner, Cornerstone
Accidentally Wes Anderson by Wally Koval – Ellen Turner, Orion
No Time Like the Future by Michael J. Fox – Antonia Whitton, Headline
Q4 Award Winner and Highly Commended Campaigns
It is with great pleasure that we announce the quarterly award-winning and highly commended publicists for our fourth and final quarterly award of 2020. Q4 is for campaigns carried out in September, October and November. Bea Carvalho is our judge on behalf of Waterstones for Q4.
The winners are Poppy North and Jane Gentle (Penguin General) for A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Highly commended is Beatrice Cross (Bloomsbury) for The Book of Hopes by Katherine Rundell
Huge congratulations to Poppy, Jane and Beatrice!
DIGITAL SUBMISSIONS and NEW CATEGORIES
We are accepting digital submissions to ppcawards20@gmail.com
- Forms can be downloaded here (Q1) and here (Q2).
- Publicists must include links for all publicity, not attachments of coverage
- Submissions must be attached as a low-res PDF
- Submission emails must be clearly labelled in the email subject line as to whether they are for Q1 or Q2
We also have 2 new categories:
YA and Children’s Celebrity Book Campaign (all formats)
Award for the best campaign for a book aimed at a young reader (including picture books, middle grade and teen) written by a well-known personality.
Crime and Thriller Campaign, hardback and paperback
Award for the best book campaign within the crime, psychological suspense or thriller genre. This can be a novel or non-fiction, including true crime narratives, in both hardback and paperback format.