{"id":668371,"date":"2026-10-29T01:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668371\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T01:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:26:10","slug":"waterstones-unveils-shortlist-for-2026-book-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668371\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterstones unveils shortlist for 2026 Book of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/_Faridah_Abike-IyimideMaxim_Vinciguerra_MacFarlane_Robert_2.jpg\" alt=\"Faridah Abike Iyimide c Maxim Vinciguerra, Robert MacFarlane c Bryan Appleyard and Maggie OFarrell c Dasha Tenditna\" title=\"Faridah Abike Iyimide c Maxim Vinciguerra, Robert MacFarlane c Bryan Appleyard and Maggie OFarrell c Dasha Tenditna\" class=\"aos-Image aos-W100\"\/><\/p>\n<p>L-R: Faridah \u00c0b\u00edk\u00e9-\u00cdy\u00edm\u00edd\u00e9 (\u00a9 Maxim Vinciguerra), Robert MacFarlane (\u00a9 Bryan Appleyard) and Maggie O&#8217;Farrell (\u00a9 Dasha Tenditna)<\/p>\n<p>Books by several debut authors have been shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2026, alongside acclaimed authors including Maggie O\u2019Farrell, Elizabeth Strout, Douglas Stuart and Robert Macfarlane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read this article for\u00a0<a style=\"color: #e67e23;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/registration?utm_source=thebookseller&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=anon+user+paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Join thousands of book industry professionals who rely on The Bookseller for trusted publishing news, previews, and insight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\ud83d\udd13 Sign in below or <a style=\"color: #e67e23;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/registration?utm_source=thebookseller&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=anon+user+paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">create a free account<\/a> to read 3 free articles.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L-R: Faridah \u00c0b\u00edk\u00e9-\u00cdy\u00edm\u00edd\u00e9 (\u00a9 Maxim Vinciguerra), Robert MacFarlane (\u00a9 Bryan Appleyard) and Maggie O&#8217;Farrell (\u00a9 Dasha Tenditna) Books&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-668371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}