2016 HNS Indie Award: Winners, Shortlisted Titles, and Finalists
The joint winners of the HNS Indie Award 2016 are:
BLOODIE BONES, Lucienne Boyce
FOSSIL ISLAND, Barbara Sjoholm
FOUR from this shortlist went forward as finalists.
The Winners and Runners Up were judged and announced by Anna Belfrage (author and winner 2015) and James Aitcheson (author and historian) at the Oxford HNS Conference in September 2016.
Well done and congratulations to:
1 WHEN SORROWS COME, Maria Dziedzan
2 BLOODIE BONES, Lucienne Boyce
3 AURELIA, Alison Morton
4 A PRIDE OF POPPIES, Julia Bozza, Barry Brennessel, Charlie Cochrane, Sam Evans, Lou Faulkner, Adam Fitzroy, Wendy C Fries, Z. McAspurren, Eleanor Musgrove and Jay Lewis Taylor
5 FOSSIL ISLAND, Barbara Sjoholm
6 FAR AWAY, Victoria Blake
7 THE JESUIT LETTER, Dean Hamilton
8 ONE SUMMER IN ARCADIA, Bill Page
9 OUT OF TIME, Loretta Livingstone
…And the four finalists are:
AURELIA, Alison Morton
BLOODIE BONES, Lucienne Boyce
FOSSIL ISLAND, Barbara Sjoholm
WHEN SORROWS COME, Maria Dziedzan