TheSelfiesBookAwards

Calling all #indieauthors - the 2024 Selfies Book Awards are open for submissions! The deadline is 2 January, and more info can be found here: bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-arti…

@ivanwainewright @BookBrunch @cactussurgeon @h_peckham Really lovely to see you yesterday - thanks so much for coming along!

Standing at Author HQ at the London Book Fair, where, last year, I fell over when I won the @SelfiesAwards. Still pinching myself now. Good luck to everyone shortlisted for this year's awards! @BookBrunch #londonbookfair2023

Congratulations to the winners of @SelfiesAwards, Halima Khatun (Adult fiction), Rich Smith (Children's Fiction) and Sarah Ziegel (Memoir), and to all of the shortlistees! #BookTwitter #booklovers

It was a real treat to meet so many of our shortlisted authors in person!

We were thrilled to hold our awards ceremony at @LondonBookFair yesterday! Congratulations to the winners, @HalimaBobs, @SarahJZiegel and Rich Smith, to the commended authors @SarahLBooks and Moira Dennis, and to all of the brilliant shortlisted authors.

Today's top story: Congratulations to the winners of the @SelfiesAwards! @HalimaBobs won the adult category, Rich Smith won the children's, and @SarahJZiegel won the non-fiction category, with Moira Dennis and @SarahLBooks highly commended bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

#SelfiesSpotlight: The Secrets We Keep by A J Wills. With every passing minute, hopes of finding Annie Warren alive are fading fast. Meanwhile, TV reporter Yannick wants to solve the mystery of her disappearance - and he knows her family's dark secrets. #thrillers #bookawards

#SelfiesSpotlight: When I Grow Up by Rich Smith. Miss Roberts has told her class they must choose their career for the school careers day competition. Will Harry and Amy choose in time to be in with a chance of winning the prize or will it go in the bin? #picturebooks

#SelfiesSpotlight: The Secret Diary of a Bengali Newlywed by @HalimaBobs. New husband. New city. New in-laws and new expectations. After the challenge of finding a man, and the nightmare of planning my big fat Bangladeshi wedding, this newlywed phase is the easy bit, right?

#SelfiesSpotlight: Marching to a Different Beat - A family's journey with autism by @SarahJZiegel. This is a story of love, patience and strength - how she and her husband brought up their four autistic boys. #memoir #bookawards

#SelfiesSpotlight: My Family is So Scottish by @KirstinAuthor - from a kilt-wearing uncle to a rugby-loving gran, come along and meet my very Scottish clan! This picture book is a joyful exploration of Scottish culture. #bookawards #picturebooks

With only 4 days to go until The @SelfiesAwards, I thought I would share with you the story behind the images on Andrew Candy of @CarshaltonArt 's fabulous #bookcoverdesign #bookawards buff.ly/37XCfFA

#SelfiesSpotlight: The Maids of Biddenden by @harper_author is inspired by the real-life story of conjoined twins Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst. Born in 1100 into a wealthy family from a small Kent village, they overcome fear and hostility to grow into gifted and much-loved women.

#SelfiesSpotlight One for the Book, Son by @AuthorNickTerry. I always had the feeling life had a plan for me. This story follows my life: rags to riches via amazing coincidences. Not bad for a dyslexic boy with no qualifications! #memoir #bookawards

#SelfiesSpotlight: Mystery in the Palace of Westminster by @SarahLBooks follows Theo, who happens to be the son of the Prime Minister. When the parliamentary mace is stolen from inside the Houses of Parliament, he's determined to get it back - but he can't do it alone.

#SelfiesSpotlight: The Ring Breaker by @writerjeangill. In the twilight of the old gods, when the last Vikings rule the seas, two cursed orphans meet on an Orkney beach. Skarfr and Hlif forge an unbreakable bond as they come of age in a world of blood debts and vengeance.

#SelfiesSpotlight: The Kew Sketch Journal by Charles Leon is a stunning celebration of @kewgardens and the local area. Leon shares the human relationship with buildings, built by people for people, used and visited, and a constant through decades and centuries. #bookawards

#SelfiesSpotlight: Return to the Secret Lake by @KarenInglis. It's almost a year since Stella and Tom time-travelled to the early 1900s, and befriended Emma, Lucy and Jack. Now Emma's life is in danger, and the only hope of a cure is in the future... #bookawards #kidlit

#SelfiesSpotlight: Small Eden by @janedavisauthor. 1884: after Robert and Freya lose their two infant sons to scarlet fever, grief drives a wedge between them. A decade later, the gulf widens as he decides to create his own Garden of Eden... #historicalfiction #bookawards

#SelfiesSpotlight: No Place to Lie by @helenpgarlick - The shocking death of Helen's brother David at 20 triggers a quest to unravel what really happened to him, and the startling secret their mother took to her grave. #memoir #bookawards