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The list of books that have made it to the shortlist of the 'Indie Book Awards 2022' has been announced.
You can take a look at the books in the Indie Book Awards Shortlist 2022 here.
Some of the books that made it onto the list are shop favourites and best sellers for us at Bettys Books including:
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death, but until now hadn't met Death in person - a black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen. Wolf travels across time and place with Mrs Death to witness deaths of past and present and discuss what the future holds for humanity.
Still Life by Sarah Winman
Two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening together as bombs fall around them in a ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa in 1944. Moving from the Tuscan Hills and piazzas of Florence, to the smog of London’s East End, Still Life is a sweeping, joyful novel about beauty, love, family and fate
If you want to find out more about the books on the shortlist pop in an see us at Betty's Books, 30 Queen Street, Seaton, Devon, EX12 2RB or take a look here.
The full Indie Book Awards 2022 shortlist:
FICTION
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden (Canongate)
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)
The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex (Picador)
Still Life by Sarah Winman (HarperCollins)
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker (Hamish Hamilton)
NON-FICTION
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig (Canongate)
The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes (Bloomsbury)
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Picador)
How We Met by Huma Qureshi (Elliot & Thompson Limited)
Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain by Pen Vogler (Atlantic Books)
House of Music – Raising the Kanneh-Masons by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason (Oneworld)
CHILDREN’S FICTION
The Last Bear by Hannah Gold, illustrated by Levi Pinfold (HarperCollins Children's Books)
The Week at World's End by Emma Carroll (Faber)
Frankenstiltskin: Fairy Tales Gone Bad by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Freya Hartas (Walker)
Escape Room by Christopher Edge (Nosy Crow)
The Chime Seekers by Ross Montgomery (Walker)
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Akhran Girmay (Faber)
PICTURE BOOK
Arlo the Lion Who Couldn't Sleep by Catherine Rayner (Macmillan Children's Books)
Counting Creatures by Julia Donaldson & Sharon King-Chai (Two Hoots)
A Song of Gladness by Michael Morpurgo & Emily Gravett (Two Hoots)
Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush by Patrice Lawrence & Camilla Sucre (Nosy Crow)
My Beautiful Voice by Joseph Coelho & Allison Colpoys (Frances Lincoln Children's Books)
The Night the Moon Went Missing by Brendan Kearney (DK)