The winners of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2022 are: Fiction: Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, Juno Dawson; Non-Fiction: The Transgender Issue, Shon Faye; Poetry: The Fire People, Lemn Sissay;Young Adult Fiction: All That’s Left in the World, Erik J Brown; Children’s Fiction: Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good, Louie Stowell; Breakthrough author: Alice Oseman, author of the Heartstopper series; Reader’s Choice: Heartstopper, Alice Oseman.
Douglas Stuarts’ Booker Prizewinning novel Shuggie Bain is to be adapted for a BBC drama. Stuart will adapt his own novel with A24.