Waterstones Book of the Year 2019

It is our enormous pleasure to reveal Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse as our Book of the Year 2019 and Greta Thunberg, author of the era-defining collection of speeches No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, as our Author of the Year 2019.

From the outpouring of impassioned, emphatic nominations from booksellers, it was clear from the outset that these works had made an unparalleled impression. Amidst a wide-ranging and immensely strong shortlist they stood out to us as the books we most need now: reading to bring people together, inspiring us to act now to save our planet and to affirm the importance of bravery and compassion in a time of uncertainty.