Tom Moran with Dinosaurs and Prime Numbers won over Lucy Foley's The Book of Lost and Found. And Jessica Cornwell's The Serpent Papers won over J.Ryan Stradal's Kitchens of the Great Midwest.
In a very competitive game of musical chairs which also involved four volunteers from the audience, Tom cheated to victory.
Judging panel:
Robert Olen Butler on literary merit
Elizabeth Day on performance
Anthony Davis on intangibles
Judges and authors were on great form! Even though Anthony started off by a very tasteless joke about the Germanwing crash. And somehow managed to still get applause despite an audible gasp...
And to top it all of, Quercus gave away goody bags! Rather disgustingly, certain people grabbed a handful of bags and in the end not everyone got one. Seriously??
Anyway, I am very pleased to have a copy of J Ryan's book which isn't even yet officially published!
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