Previous winners

East Anglian Book Awards 2020 winners

Overall East Anglian Book of the Year winner

The House of One Hundred Clocks by A.M. Howell (Usborne)

• Biography & Memoir: How To Be Autistic by Charlotte Amelia Poe (Myriad Editions)
• Fiction: The Choice by Claire Wade (Orion)
• General Non-Fiction: New York to California by Jeremy Page (Propolis)
• History & Tradition: Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce (Icon Books)
• The Mal Peet Children’s Award: The House of One Hundred Clocks by A.M. Howell (Usborne)
• Poetry: So Many Rooms by Laura Scott (Carcanet)

The ‘Book by the Cover’ Award, sponsored by East Anglian Writers for the best-designed cover of the shortlisted titles, went to Richard Wells for the cover of Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell.

The Exceptional Contribution Award 2020 was presented to Norfolk Library and Information Service and Suffolk Libraries.

East Anglian Book Awards 2019 winners

Overall East Anglian Book of the Year winner

A Claxton Diary: Further Field Notes from a Small Planet, by Mark Cocker (Jonathan Cape)

• Biography & Memoir: The Photographer at Sixteen by George Szirtes (Maclehose)
• Fiction: I Thought I Knew You by Penny Hancock (Mantle)
• General Non-Fiction: A Claxton Diary: Further Field Notes from a Small Planet by Mark Cocker (Jonathan Cape)
• History & Tradition: A Very Dangerous Locality by Robert Liddiard and David Sims (University of Hertfordshire Press)
• The Mal Peet Children’s Award: Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain and Ireland by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Walker)
• Poetry: The Built Moment by Lavinia Greenlaw (Faber)

The ‘Book by the Cover’ Award, sponsored by East Anglian Writers for the best-designed cover of the shortlisted titles, went to Helen Ivory for The Anatomical Venus (Bloodaxe Books).

The Exceptional Contribution Award 2019 was presented to Christopher Bigsby, Emeritus Professor at the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia and Founding Director of the Arthur Miller Institute Autumn Literary Festival.

East Anglian Book Awards 2018 winners

Overall East Anglian Book of the Year winner

The East Country: Almanac Tales of Valley and Shore, by Jules Pretty (Comstock)

• History & Tradition: This Hollow Land: Aspects of Norfolk Folklore by Peter Tolhurst (Black Dog Books)
• Biography & Memoir: The Lady Lord Mayors of Norwich 1923 – 2017 by Phyllida Scrivens (Pen & Sword)
• The Mal Peet Children’s Award: Kick by Mitch Johnson (Usborne)
• General Non-Fiction: The East Country: Almanac Tales of Valley and Shore by Jules Pretty (Comstock)
• Poetry: Gall by Matt Howard (Rialto)
• Fiction: Devoured by Anna Mackmin (Propolis)

The ‘Book by the Cover’ Award, sponsored by East Anglian Writers for the best-designed cover of the shortlisted titles, went to Niki Medlik for Devoured.

The Exceptional Contribution Award 2018 was presented to Marilyn Brocklehurst, founder of the Norfolk Children’s Book Centre based in Alby, Norfolk.

East Anglian Book Awards 2017 winners

Overall East Anglian Book of the Year winner

Lapwing and Fox: Conversations between John Berger and John Christie, by John Christie (Objectif)

• Fiction (judge: Sarah Perry) – Madame Zero, by Sarah Hall (Faber)
• Biography & Memoir (judge: D J Taylor) – The Owl at the Window, by Carl Gorham (Coronet)
• History & Tradition (judge: Chris Rushby) – Holkham, by Christine Hiskey (Unicorn Press)
• General Non-Fiction (judge: Rebecca Stott) – Lapwing and Fox: Conversations between John Berger and John Christie, by John Christie (Objectif)
• Poetry (judge: Jeremy Noel-Tod) – Was and Is, by Neil Powell (Carcanet)
• The Mal Peet Children’s Award (judge: Rowan Mantell) – The Nearest Far Away Place, by Hayley Long (Hot Key Books).
• Book by the Cover Award, presented by East Anglian Writers – Was and Is, by Neil Powell (Carcanet)
• Exceptional Contribution Award – Peter Stibbons, Poppyland Publishing

East Anglian Book Awards 2016 winners

Overall East Anglian Book of the Year winner

The Crime Writer by Jill Dawson (Hodder & Stoughton)

• Biography & Memoir (Judge – Sophie Scott-Brown) – Jumpin’ Jack Flash by Keiron Pim (Jonathan Cape)
• Fiction (Judge – Elizabeth Haynes) – The Crime Writer by Jill Dawson (Hodder & Stoughton)
• General Non-Fiction (Judge – Bruce Kemble-Johnson) – Lost Country Houses of Norfolk: History, Archaeology and Myth by Tom Williamson, Ivan Ringwood and Sarah Spooner (Boydell & Brewer)
• History and Tradition (Judge – Trevor Heaton) – Heyday: Britain and the Birth of the Modern World by Ben Wilson (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• The Mal Peet Children’s Book Award (Judge – Sheridan Winn) – Longbow Girl by Linda Davies (Chicken House)
• Poetry (Judge – Briony Bax) – The Print Museum by Heidi Williamson (Bloodaxe)
• Norfolk Library Service Readers’ Recommendation Award – The Elegant Fowl by Alan Marshall
• Exceptional Contribution Award – Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield
• Book by the Cover Award – Shona Branigan, The Print Museum

Previous ‘Book of the Year’ winners

2015 – Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske, by Julia Blackburn (Jonathan Cape)
2014 – After Me Comes The Flood, by Sarah Perry (Serpent’s Tail)
2013 – Masterpieces: Art and East Anglia, edited by Ian Collins (East Publishing / SCVA)
2012 – The Last Hunters, by Candy Whittome (Full Circle Editions)
2011 – Edith Cavell, by Diana Souhami (Quercus)
2010 – The Widow’s Tale, by Mick Jackson (Faber and Faber)
2009 – Building Norfolk, by Matthew Rice (Frances Lincoln)
2008 – Scapegallows, by Carol Birch (Virago)