LEVITATION FOR BEGINNERS by Suzannah Dunn has been shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Award for Fiction!

LEVITATION FOR BEGINNERS by Suzannah Dunn has been shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Award for Fiction!

LEVITATION FOR BEGINNERS by Suzannah Dunn has been shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Award for Fiction.

The Nero Book Awards are the only set of multi-category awards open exclusively to writers based in the UK and Ireland and have established themselves as ‘one of Britain and Ireland’s top literary prizes’ (The Observer), propelling the inaugural Nero Book Awards Gold Prize winner 2023, The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (Hamish Hamilton), to a wider audience earlier this year. The book’s paperback edition jumped from #3,724 to #129 in the Amazon book charts the morning after the announcement. Simon Prosser, Publishing Director at Hamish Hamilton, said: “Winning the Gold Prize was a great extra boost for The Bee Sting as we prepared to launch our paperback edition, and we were delighted when the book went straight into the Top 5 of the Sunday Times paperback fiction bestseller chart.”

The category judges have selected 16 books as the best of the year in the four categories out of hundreds of books submitted. Each category (Fiction, Non-Fiction, Debut Fiction and Children’s) winner, chosen from the shortlist, will be announced on Tuesday 14th January 2025 and of those, one book will be selected as the overall winner – The Nero Gold Prize, Book of the Year – by a final panel of judges and announced at a ceremony on 5th March 2025. 10 out of 16 shortlisted books are by women and more than half of the books shortlisted are by debut authors. There is also an even split of books published by major publishing houses and independent presses represented on the shortlist this year.

The judges for the 2024 Fiction Prize were Kevin Power, Dr Will Smith and Zoe West.