Gaiman Wins Book of the Year 2013

Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane was crowned Specsavers Book of the Year 2013 by a public vote.

Gaiman finished ahead by a considerable margin, beating other category winners including Malala Yousafzai, Robert Harris, Kate Atkinson and David Walliams.

Gaiman was shortlisted in three of the award’s 10 categories — National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year for Fortunately The Milk, Waterstones UK Author of the Year, and Audible Audiobook of the Year for The Ocean at the End of the Lane which won the latter category, and went forward to the Specsavers Book of the Year public vote.

[Via Locus Online.]