Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning debut novel Shuggie Bain (Picador) has won book of the year at the British Book Awards, reports the Bookseller.
The novel, which also won the debut book of the year award, won the top award ahead of Maggie O’Farrell, who won the fiction award for Hamnet (Tinder Press), and David Olusoga, who won the children’s illustrated and nonfiction prizes for Black and British: A short, essential history (Macmillan Children’s Books).