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Smith, Key and Rundell shortlisted for Foyles Book of the Year
Zadie Smith’s The Fraud (Hamish Hamilton), Amy Key’s Arrangements in Blue (Jonathan Cape) and Katherine Rundell’s Impossible Creatures (Bloomsbury Children’s) have been shortlisted for Foyles Book of the Year.
The shortlists cover three categories and represent Foyles booksellers’ favourite recommendations of the year. Of the 18 shortlisted titles, three will be chosen as the winner of their respective category, which will be announced on Friday 1st December.
Smith is joined in the Fiction category by Eliza Clark’s Penance (Faber & Faber); The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild by Mathias Enard, translated by Frank Wynne (Fitzcarraldo Editions); Yellowface by R F Kuang (The Borough Press); The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut (Pushkin Press); and Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson (Viking).
Key is battling for the Non-Fiction title with Eve by Cat Bohannon (Hutchinson Heinemann); Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer (Allen Lane); Of Cabbages and Kimchi: A Practical Guide to the World of Fermented Food by James Read (Particular Books); The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin (Canongate); and Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis (Bodley Head).
In Children’s Rundell faces How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen (Walker Books); You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury Children’s); The Wrath of the Woolington Wyrm by Karen Foxlee, illustrated by Freda Chiu (Pushkin Children’s Books); Godfather Death by Sally Nicholls, illustrated by Júlia Sardà (Andersen Press); and Stolen History by Sathnam Sanghera (Penguin Random House Children’s).
