Annual Indie Champions Awards Winners
By Bookshop.org UKWe are delighted to unveil our Annual Indie Champions Awards Winners. Here, we recognise the top individuals and organisations that have supported independent bookshops with us in the past year. Congratulations! Watch the Awards Video.
Fiction: Lydia Davis author of Our Strangers
Non-fiction: Mikaela Loach, author of It's Not That Radical
Children’s Author of the Year: Katherine Rundell, author of Impossible Creatures
Lifestyle and Culture Author of the Year: Cold War Steve Annual 2024
Podcast of the Year: Literary Friction
Overall Publisher of the Year: Thames & Hudson
Publishing Professional of the Year: Eleanor Slater, HarperCollins
Innovative use of Bookshop.org: BooksForTopics
Content Creator of the Year: The Kids Books Curator
Cold War Steve Annual 2024
Cold War Steve
£18.99 £18.04Lifestyle and Culture winner 'I'm absolutely delighted, and little bit shocked, to have won this award. I love independent bookshops and am eternally grateful for all their support!' In The Cold War Steve Annual 2024, the artist and political satirist takes us on an excursion of scandals, absurdities and farcical monstrosities.
Our Strangers
Lydia Davis
£20.00 £19.00Fiction Winner 'I am so pleased to have won this award for Our Strangers and to have had a hand in supporting independent bookstores. I do feel that if we don't support our corner indie, it will disappear.' In a landmark move, Davis has stated that the book is only available via physical bookshops, Bookshop.org and independent online retailers, and is not available on Amazon.
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World
Mikaela Loach
£16.99 £16.14Non-Fiction Winner 'Thank you to Bookshop.org and all the indie booksellers. It really means so, so much to have had your support this whole year and beyond.' Mikaela Loach has illuminates the fact that tackling the climate crisis requires us to visit the roots of poverty, capitalist exploitation, police brutality and legal injustice - and shows us that through collective action, another way is possible.
Impossible Creatures: INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Katherine Rundell
£14.99 £14.24Children's Winner 'There is nobody in the world who is as able to tailor a book recommendation to the precise shape and hunger of your soul as an indie bookseller. They really are the doctors of the human imagination.' Katherine Rundell captured readers with her action-packed fantasy adventure - Impossible Creatures is a modern classic.