{"id":579114,"date":"2026-05-12T02:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579114\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:14:28","slug":"british-book-awards-virginia-giuffres-memoir-wins-top-book-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579114\/","title":{"rendered":"British Book Awards: Virginia Giuffre\u2019s memoir wins top book prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall book of the year: Nobody&#8217;s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, co-written by Amy Wallace<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Author of the year: AF Steadman<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Illustrator of the year: Dav Pilkey<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fiction: Boleyn Traitor by Philippa Gregory <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Debut fiction: The Names by Florence Knapp <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Non-fiction: narrative: Nobody&#8217;s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, co-written by Amy Wallace<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Non-fiction: Lifestyle &amp; Illustrated: Forgotten Churches by Luke Sherlock<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crime &amp; thriller: A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Discover: The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Audiobook fiction: Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite, narrated by Weruche Opia, Diana Yekinni and Nnei Opia Clark <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Audiobook non-fiction: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Science fiction &amp; fantasy: Alchemised by SenLinYu <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Romantic fiction: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Graphic novel: Bunny vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business! by Jamie Smart <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Children&#8217;s fiction: Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Children&#8217;s non-fiction illustrated: Oh Dear, Look What I Got! by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Freedom to publish award: Nobody&#8217;s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overall book of the year: Nobody&#8217;s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, co-written by Amy Wallace Author of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-579114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}