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Acclaimed author Ian McEwan And BBC Chief International Correspondent Lise Doucet are among the prominent personalities whose works have been selected for The prestigious Nero Book Awards 2025.
His novels join a diverse selection of 16 titles in four categories, chosen from hundreds of submissions, celebrating outstanding literary talent.
Other notable writers nominated include art historians and broadcasters james foxWith bestselling authors Patrice Lawrence and Sarah Perry. The awards recognize excellence in debut fiction, children’s fiction, fiction and non-fiction.
First Fiction Prize Shortlist Features extension project By Ben Pester, juicy By Rochelle Dowden-Lord, Season by George Harrison, and a family affair By Claire Lynch.
For children’s fiction, the nominated works are my soul, a shining tree By Jamila Gavin, people love stars By Patrice Lawrence, dragonborn by Struan Murray, and shrapnel boy By Jenny Pearson.
In the main narrative category, the shortlist includes two roberts By Damien Barr, cursed daughters By Oyinkan Braithwaite, the Pirate by Benjamin Wood, and McEwan’s what can we know,
Non-fiction shortlist includes we came by sea By Horatio Claure, doucet’s Best hotels in Kabul, Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades by James Fox, and death of an ordinary man By Sarah Perry.
McEwan’s latest novel, what can we knowhas been described as “science fiction without the science”, set more than a century in the future within a greatly changed and partially submerged Britain. doucet’s Best hotels in Kabul Presents a work of reportage, tracing the recent history of Afghanistan through the lens of the Inter-Continental Hotel, which he first visited in 1988.
The book has been praised for its “novelistic in approach and epic in scope”. James Fox’s Craftland Describes Britain’s vanishing skills and traditions, in which the author interviews the country’s last remaining master craftsmen.
The Nero Book Awards, established in 2023 by Caffè Nero in partnership with The Booksellers Association and Brunel University of London, will announce category winners on 13 January.
The overall winner of the Nero Gold Award, Book of the Year, will be revealed at a ceremony in London on 4 March. Last year’s award was given to Sophie Elmhurst maurice and maraline,
Gerry Ford, Founder and Chief Executive of Caffè Nero, expressed his admiration for the selection, saying: “I am extremely impressed by the quality of the books in this year’s shortlist.
“It really showcases the talent and quality of writing across the country… This is the strongest list of books the Nero Book Awards have ever seen and a sign of the awards going from strength to strength.”