PPC ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS
HUGE congratulations to the winners of the Annual PPC Awards! And thank you to everyone who joined for our virtual award ceremony!
The PPC Award for Best Sports Book Campaign
Winner: My Life in Red and White by Arsene Wenger – Maura Wilding and Alexandra Layt, Orion
The PPC Cookery Book Award
Winner: The Batch Lady by Suzanne Mulholland – Lucy Richardson, HQ
Highly Commended: The Hairy Bikers Veggie Feasts by The Hairy Bikers – Virginia Woolstencroft and Alainna Hadjigeogiou, Orion
Edinburgh International Book Festival Award for Best Generic Campaign
Winner: A Year of Bernardine Evaristo – Anna Ridley, Penguin General
Highly Commended: UK Launch of Bookshop.org – Edwina Boyd-Gibbons and Rhiannon Carroll, Midas PR
The Award for Best Lifestyle, Gift and Humour Campaign sponsored by Books Are My Bag
Winner: Word Perfect by Susie Dent – Alice Herbert, John Murray Press
Best Crime and Thriller Campaign sponsored by Bloody Scotland
Winner: The Guest List by Lucy Foley – Jennifer Harlow, HarperFiction
The YALC Award for Best YA Campaign
Winner: Punching the Air by Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi – Tina Mories, HarperCollins Children’s Books
The Children’s Book Award sponsored by Daily Mail
Winner: While We Can’t Hug by Eoin McLaughlin – Bethany Carter, Faber & Faber
Highly Commended: Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright! by Fiona Waters – Rebecca Mason and Sian Taylor, Nosy Crow
The BBC Top of the Pops Magazine Award for Best Children’s and YA Celebrity Campaign
Winner: Break the Mould by Sinead Burke – Emily Thomas, Hachette Children’s Group and Elaine Egan, Hachette Ireland
The NetGalley Award for Paperback Original
Winner: Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami – Alice Dewing, Pan Macmillan
The Mo Siewcharran Award for Best Debut Campaign sponsored by Nielsen
Winner: Poor by Calab Femi – Emma Draude and Annabelle Wright, ed public relations and Thi Dinh and Sarah Wright, Penguin Press
Highly Commended: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart – Camilla Elworthy, Pan Macmillan
Best Celebrity Campaign sponsored by Connell MPA
Winner: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman – Olivia Mead and Chloe Davies, Penguin General
The Bookseller Award for Hardback Non-Fiction
Winner: Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad – Ella Patel, Quercus
The Waterstones Award for Hardback Fiction
Winner: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell – Georgina Moore, Midas PR for Headline
Highly Commended: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett – Millie Seaward, Little, Brown
Best Newcomer Award sponsored by Jo James
JOINT winners:
Bread Therapy by Pauline Beaumont – Niamh Anderson, Hodder & Stoughton
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad – Ella Patel, Quercus