Not exact matches
His novel, The Beast of Talesend (Indie Published) is on the 2018
shortlist in the Speculative
Fiction category.
In 2013 it was
shortlisted for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (last five in general
fiction category) and has also been
shortlisted for the People's Book Prize in the UK.
This novel was one of the winners of the Irish Writers» Centre Novel Fair in 2012 and in 2013 was
shortlisted for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, reaching the last five in the general
fiction category.
He has won the Carnegie Medal twice, the Guardian Children's
Fiction Prize and the Costa Children's Book Award and has been
shortlisted for the Waterstones UK Author of the Year
category in the 2013 National Book Awards.
Discover the
shortlists for the three
categories of the Waterstones children's book prize 2016 - illustrated books, younger
fiction, older
fiction - where six books compete within each
category to be crowned
category winner, with the three
category winners then vying for the overall title of Waterstones Children's Book of the Year 2016.
Thomas, who is also
shortlisted for the 2018 Carnegie medal, took out the top prize after winning the older
fiction category earlier in the night, alongside Jessica Townsend's fantasy novel Nevermoor, which won best younger
fiction book, and Joe Todd - Stanton's picture book The Secret of Black Rock, which won the illustrated book
category.