The Nero Book Awards 2023 Winners

The Nero Gold Prize 2023 Book of the Year

It is our pleasure to confirm The Bee Sting by Paul Murray as the winner of the Nero Gold Prize 2023 Book of the Year.

'A wonderfully ambitious and entrancing novel about a family imploding against a background of Ireland's economic and social crisis of the late noughties. Suspenseful and linguistically astonishing [...] This is fiction of the finest calibre.'

Bernardine Evaristo, Chair of Judges


Recognising great writers in the UK and Ireland, the Nero Book Awards ranges across fiction, debut fiction, non-fiction and children’s fiction categories. This year’s winners reflect the extraordinary depth and diversity of publishing throughout the industry.

The Nero Book Awards 2023 Fiction Winner

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One of the greatest living comic novelists follows up Skippy Dies and The Mark and the Void with a beautifully crafted bittersweet delight about one family desperately attempting to get through the most trying of times.
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The Fiction Shortlist

Birnam Wood
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The Bee Sting
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Ordinary Human Failings
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Fifteen Wild Decembers
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The Nero Book Awards 2023 Debut Fiction Winner

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At once knife-sharp, tender and powerfully moving, Magee’s debut is a striking tale of poverty, love and trauma told through the lens of two working-class brothers in post-conflict Belfast.
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The Debut Fiction Shortlist

The New Life
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Sunburn
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Close to Home
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The Nero Book Awards 2023 Non-Fiction Winner

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Exploring class, mental health, societal pressures and individual ambition, Strong Female Character is a candid and groundbreaking memoir of neurodiversity, sexism and defying expectations.
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The Non-Fiction Shortlist

Strong Female Character
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The Tidal Year
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Undercurrent
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Hags
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The Nero Book Awards 2023 Children's Winner

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Expertly combining the gothic eccentricity of Lemony Snicket with the murder mystery chops of Robin Stevens, Lincoln's page-turning debut centres on a spate of slayings in a very unusual family home and the diminutive detective determined to crack the case.
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The Children's Fiction Shortlist

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
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Bitterthorn
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Wild Song
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The Swifts
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