Winners have been unveiled in four categories for the Nero Book Awards, celebrating exceptional writing by authors in the U.K. and Ireland. Sponsored by Caffè Nero, the prizes are run in partnership with the Booksellers Association and Brunel University London. This year's Nero Book Awards category winners are:
Fiction: Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
Nonfiction: Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry
Debut fiction: A Family Matter by Claire Lynch
Children's fiction: My Soul, A Shining Tree by Jamila Gavin
From these four category winners, one book will be selected as the overall winner and recipient of the Nero Gold Prize for Book of the Year, to be named March 4 in London. The overall winner receives £30,000 (about $40,290), while the other category winners get £5,000 (about $6,715) each.