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Oct 19, 2026
Hannah MurrayHOST
Yeah, exactly.
Hannah MurrayHOST
Okay, Library of the Year at the Nibbies this year was a given, was given to a prison library for the first time.
Guy LloydGUEST
It was.
Guy LloydGUEST
Talk about p- putting books in front of people who don't normally get them.
Guy LloydGUEST
Um, so the Nibbies, uh, this is the UK's National Book Awards, um, the sort of equivalent, the Oscars, not quite as prestigious, but for the UK book world.
Guy LloydGUEST
Um, and this was a very eye-catching award in that Saughton Library at Her Majesty's, or His Majesty's Prison, I should say now, Edinburgh, won the National Library of the Year, um, in conjunction with their mobile library service.
Guy LloydGUEST
And the judges pointed out a lot of initiatives that the library provided, um, including, and I love this one, that they had instigated a Secret Santa initiative, which was aimed at combating loneliness, improving reading skills, boosting mental health, and getting prisoners involved in, in visiting the prison library and into reading.
Fiona SnyckersHOST
Just to mention a few of them, Sushi for Beginners, Lucy Sullivan's Getting Married and And most recently, my favorite mistake, she has a podcast that she presents with Tara Flynn called Now You're Asking.
Fiona SnyckersHOST
She has won multiple awards, far too many to mention, but several Irish Book Awards and British Book Awards.
Fiona SnyckersHOST
I would say this is probably the highlight of our podcasting career so far.
Fiona SnyckersHOST
Marion, we are delighted to be talking to you from Dublin.
Marcia HutchinsonGUEST
The writing of the book and the response has been my own healing.
Marcia HutchinsonGUEST
And then when it got taken up with the Women's Prize, and the Nibbies, and The Guardian, I'm like, "Oh-"
Modupe DaramolaHOST
Yeah
Marcia HutchinsonGUEST
... "my God.
NicoHOST
Huh, okay.
DaisyHOST
It won the LA Times best crime thriller in 2019 and 2020, and it was the crime and thriller book of the year in the British Book Awards.
DaisyHOST
I don't think it won any awards with The New York Times.
NicoHOST
Huh.
Vic HopeHOST
Rebecca is the number one New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Catabasis, Babel, and global phenomenon Yellow Face.
Vic HopeHOST
She's won multiple awards, including Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, twice, I should add, a Marshall Scholar.
Vic HopeHOST
She has a Master's in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and another in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford.
Vic HopeHOST
She's now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature and Asian American literature.
Doug BruntHOST
I love...
Doug BruntHOST
The British Book Awards are the best.
Doug BruntHOST
They, every time I, I follow you on social media, and occasionally you'll be at some British book award that's held in some centuries-old castle, and the, the Queen might be there.
Doug BruntHOST
It just seems-
Dan SimpsonHOST
We're with Elif Shafak, an award-winning British Turkish novelist who 13 novels translated into 58 languages.
Dan SimpsonHOST
Her books have been finalists for the Costa Award, the British Book Awards, the Women's Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the Booker.
Dan SimpsonHOST
She's been Reese Witherspoon book club picks.
Dan SimpsonHOST
The 40 Rules of Love, that novel was picked by the BBC as one of the 100 novels that have shaped our world.