British Book Industry Awards 2008
There were two Scottish winners at the 2008 British Book Industry Awards. The winners were announced at a ceremony at the Booksellers Association annual conference in Brighton.
Edinburgh publishers Canongate won the StoraEnso Design & Production Award for the novel The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas.
Scottish poet Robin Robertson won the Baker Tilly Imprint & Editor of the Year for his work at publishers Jonathan Cape.
Congratulations to both winners!
Several other Scots appeared in the shortlists, most notably for The Guardian Marketing Campaign of the Year:
- Harry Potter series JK Rowling (Bloomsbury)
- Long Way Down Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman (Little, Brown)
- The Raw Shark Texts Steven Hall (Canongate)
- Rebus 20 Ian Rankin (Orion)
- The End Of Mr. Y
Ariel Manto has a fascination with a 19th century scientist by the name of Thomas Lumas. His rarest work, 'The End of Mr. Y', was written before his disappearance, and the same fate seems to have befallen all the book's few readers ever since. When Ariel uncovers a copy in a second-hand bookshop, she is launched into an adventure.