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We’ve announced the Q2 BMS Award winners!

Click here for the presentation with judges comments

or see below for the full list…

Q2 – April to June 2021

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HIGHLY COMMENDED: The Missing Sister by Lucinda Riley

Marketers: Elle Gibbons, Andy Joannou / Pan Macmillan

WINNER: Penguin Modern Classics in Audio

Marketer: Laura Ingate / PRH Audio

GUERRILLA

HIGHLY COMMENDED: The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

Marketer: Elizabeth Hitti / Viper (Profile)

WINNER: The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

Marketers: Katrina Northern, Hannah Shorten / Vintage (PRH)

CHILDREN’S

HIGHLY COMMENDED: You Are A Champion by Marcus Rashford and Carl Anka

Marketers: Alison Ruane, Katie Roden, Andy Joannou / Macmillan Children’s Books

WINNER: When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle

Marketer: Sarah Kimmelman / Andersen Press

YOUNG ADULT

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Heartstopper vol. 4 by Alice Oseman

Marketer: Flic Highet / Hachette Children’s

WINNER: Threadneedle by Cari Thomas

Marketers: Fleur Clarke, Rachel Quin, Maddy Marshall / HarperFiction

DEBUT

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

Marketers: Vicky Beddow, Lucie Sharpe / Headline

WINNER: Careless by Kirsty Capes

Marketer: Helena Fouracre / Orion

ADULT NON-FICTION

HIGHLY COMMENDED: The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn

Marketers: Sophie Shaw, Katie Williams / Michael Joseph

WINNER: Slug by Hollie McNish

Marketer: Emily Moran / Fleet (Little, Brown)

ADULT FICTION

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Marketer: Fergus Edmondson / Tinder Press (Headline)

WINNER: The Serial Killer’s Wife by Alice Hunter

Marketers: Ellie Pilcher, Eleanor Slater / Avon (HarperCollins)

Q2 SPOTLIGHT AWARD WINNERS

AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT: Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Marketer: Hannah Reardon Steward / Usborne

INNOVATION: Genie and Teeny by Steven Lenton

Marketer: Beth Maher / HarperCollins Children’s

CREATIVITY: Hostage by Clare Mackintosh

Marketer: Gemma Shelley, Brionee Fenlon / Little, Brown

GRAFT: Still Life by Sarah Winman

Marketer: Liv Marsden / 4th Estate (HarperCollins)

We’ve announced the winners of the Q1 2021 Awards!

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 or see below for the full list…

Q1 – January to March 2021

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HIGHLY COMMENDED: #BloomsburyNightIn

Marketers: Amy Donegan, Rachel Wilkie & Ella Harold / Bloomsbury

WINNER: 2000AD in Audio

Marketers: Carmen Byers, Helena Sheffield & Laura Ingate / PRH Audio

GUERRILLA

HIGHLY COMMENDED: The Marlowe Murder Club

Marketer: Becca Joyce / HQ

WINNER: Detransition, Baby

Marketer: Flora Willis / Serpent’s Tail (Profile)

CHILDREN’S

HIGHLY COMMENDED: The Valley of Lost Secrets

Marketer: Jade Westwood / Bloomsbury Children’s

WINNER: How To Grow Up and Feel Amazing!

Marketer: James McParland / Hachette Children’s

YOUNG ADULT

HIGHLY COMMENDED: The Rule of Wolves

Marketer: Naomi Berwin / Hachette Children’s

WINNER: The Gilded Ones

Marketers: Hannah Reardon Steward & Stevie Hopwood / Usborne

DEBUT

HIGHLY COMMENDED: The Sanatorium

Marketers: Emma Burton & Holly Minter / Transworld

WINNER: Open Water

Marketers: Alexia Thomaidis & Zoe Coxon / Penguin General

ADULT NON-FICTION

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Tap to Tidy

Marketers: Abby Watson & Stephenie Naulls / Ebury

WINNER: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Marketers: Julie Woon & Ania Gordon / Penguin Press

ADULT FICTION

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Memorial

Marketers: Jamie Forrest & Sophie Walker / Atlantic Books

WINNER: Klara and the Sun

Marketers: Katie Hall, Niriksha Bharadia & Kiri Inglis / Faber

Q1 SPOTLIGHT AWARDS

AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT: The Muslim Problem

Marketer: Aimee Oliver Powell / Atlantic Books

INNOVATION: Maxwell’s Demon

Marketer: Jamie Norman / Canongate

CREATIVITY: VI Spy: Licence to Chill

Marketer: Jazz Bartlett Love / Chicken House

GRAFT: The Absolute Book

Marketer: Jen Breslin / Penguin Michael Joseph

A huge thank you to everyone for submitting their campaigns, and to the judges for their careful considerations.

We’ve announced the winners of the Q4 2020 Awards!

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 or see below for the full list…

Q4 – October to December 2020

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HIGHLY COMMENDED: Quercus Word of Mouth Bestsellers Evening

Marketer: Hannah Winter / Quercus

WINNER: The Year of Dilly Court

Marketers: Katy Blott / HarperFiction

GUERRILLA

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Accidentally Wes Anderson

Marketer: Cait Davies / Trapeze (Orion)

WINNER: Sleepless

Marketers: Joanna Kite, Becca Joyce / HQ

CHILDREN’S

HIGHLY COMMENDED: The Night Bus Hero

Marketer: James McParland / Hachette Children’s

WINNER: The Book of Hopes

Marketers: Mattea Barnes / Bloomsbury Children’s

DEBUT

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Firewatching

Marketers: Sarah Jeffcoate / Simon & Schuster

WINNER: Poor

Marketer: Dahmicca Wright / Penguin Press

ADULT NON-FICTION

HIGHLY COMMENDED: A Life on Our Planet

Marketers: Stephenie Naulls, Morgana Chess, Helena Sheffield / Ebury

WINNER: A Promised Land

Marketer: Amelia Fairney, Rose Poole, Indira Birnie, Helena Sheffield / Viking

ADULT FICTION

HIGHLY COMMENDED: The Betrayals

Marketers: Sarah Shea, Katy Blott / HarperFiction

WINNER: A Song for the Dark Times

Marketer: Tom Noble, Lucy Cameron / Orion

Q4 SPOTLIGHT AWARDS

AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT: What A Flanker

Marketer: Orlando Mowbray / Harper Non-Fiction

INNOVATION: Home Body

Marketers: Justine Gold, Genevieve Barratt / Simon & Schuster

CREATIVITY: A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles

Marketers: Flora Willis / Profile

A huge thank you to everyone for submitting their campaigns, and to the judges for their careful considerations.

We’ve announced the winners of the 2020 Q1, Q2 and Q3 Awards!

Click here for the presentation with judges comments

 or see below for the full list…

Q1 – January to March 2020

GUERRILLA
HIGHLY COMMENDED: How to Break Up with Fast Fashion

Marketer: Ellie Morley / Headline

WINNER: Motherwell

Marketers: Anna Bowen, Tom Noble / Orion

DEBUT

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Saving Missy

Marketers: Abbie Salter, Katy Blott / HarperFiction

WINNER: The Girl with the Louding Voice

Marketer: Helen Flood / Sceptre

ADULT NON-FICTION

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Invisible Women

Marketers: Rosanna Boscawen, Katrina Northern / Vintage

WINNER: The Future We Choose

Marketer: Felice McKeown / Manilla Press

ADULT FICTION

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Grown-Ups

Marketers: Claire Bush, Liz Smith, Fola Adebayo / Michael Joseph

WINNER: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Marketer: Amy Fulwood / Simon & Schuster

Q1 SPOTLIGHT AWARDS

AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT: Not A Diet Book

Marketer: Orlando Mowbray / Harper Non-Fiction

INNOVATION: The Mirror and The Light

Marketers: Matt Clacher, Lindsay Terrell, Liv Marsden / 4th Estate

CREATIVITY: Difficult Women

Marketers: Rosanna Boscawen, Sophie Painter / Vintage

Q2 – April to June 2020

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HIGHLY COMMENDED: Play and Learn at Home

Marketers: Sarah Connell, Anna Howorth, Jacob Dow, Emma Baxter, Lisa Watts, Matt Bugler / Usborne

WINNER: eBook Lockdown Promotion

Marketer: Jessie Sullivan / Head of Zeus

GUERRILLA

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Mind Over Mother

Marketer: Aimee Kitson / Little, Brown

WINNER: Lockdown

Marketer: Katie Sadler / Quercus

CHILDREN’S

HIGHLY COMMENDED: The Strangeworlds Travel Agency

Marketers: Beth McWilliams, Aashfaria Anwar / Hachette Children’s

WINNER: The Worrysaurus

Marketer: Emily Finn / Hachette Children’s

YOUNG ADULT

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Diary of a Confused Feminist

Marketer: Natasha Whearity / Hachette Children’s

WINNER: The Court of Miracles

Marketers: Fleur Clarke, Katy Blott / HarperFiction

ADULT NON-FICTION

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Humankind

Marketer: Genista Tate-Alexander / Bloomsbury

WINNER: Women Don’t Owe You Pretty

Marketers: Caro Parodi, Matthew Grindon / Octopus

ADULT FICTION

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Daughters of Cornwall

Marketers: Dawn Burnett, Sarah Shea / HarperFiction

WINNER: The Heatwave

Marketer: Ellie Pilcher / Avon

Q2 SPOTLIGHT AWARDS

AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT: Skincare

Marketers: Joanna Rose, Janet Aspey, Jen Callahan-Packer / HQ

INNOVATION: White Rabbit Launch

Marketer: Tom Noble / Orion

CREATIVITY: Ladybird Little Big Moments

Marketer: Natasha Collie, Beth O’Brien, Clemmie Turner / PRH Children’s

Q3 – July to September 2020

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HIGHLY COMMENDED: One More Chapter Readalong

Marketers: Melanie Price, Claire Fenby / HarperCollins

WINNER: Go on an Adventure with Katherine Rundell

Marketers: Mattea Barnes, Lucy Upton / Bloomsbury Children’s

YOUNG ADULT

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Midnight Sun

Marketers: Celeste Ward-Best, Maddy Hall / Atom

WINNER: Cinderella is Dead

Marketer: Namra Amir / Bloomsbury Children’s

DEBUT

HIGHLY COMMENDED: The Thursday Murder Club

Marketers: Georgia Taylor, Ellie Hudson / Penguin General

WINNER: The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates

Marketers: Joanna Olney, Stevie Hopwood / Usborne

ADULT NON-FICTION

HIGHLY COMMENDED:What Mummy Makes

Marketer: Natalie Wolfe / DK

WINNER: Gotta Get Theroux This

Marketers: Sarah Arratoon, Andy Joannou, Ellie Bailey, Elle Jones / Pan Macmillan

ADULT FICTION

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Love in Colour

Marketer: Lucie Sharpe / Headline

WINNER: The Midnight Library

Marketer: Alice Shortland / Canongate

Q3 SPOTLIGHT AWARDS

AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT: Mary Berry Simple Comforts

Marketer: Abby Watson / Ebury

INNOVATION: The Guest List

Marketers: Abbie Salter, Jeannelle Brew / HarperFiction

CREATIVITY: Ottolenghi Flavour

Marketers: Stephenie Naulls, Morgana Chess / Ebury

A huge thank you to everyone for submitting their campaigns, and to the judges for their careful considerations.