David Nicholls and David Walliams win top prizes at National Book Awards

Nicholls is named UK author of the year for Us, Walliams wins top children’s book prize with Awful Auntie and cookery writer Mary Berry scoops outstanding achievement award

David Nicholls has been named UK author of the year at this National Book Awards for his novel Us, a look at the intricacies and memories at the heart of a failing marriage.

Nicholls’s bestseller was voted winner of the accolade on 26 November by the National Book Awards academy, made up of more than 750 book industry experts. It beat titles including Ali Smith’s acclaimed novel How to Be Both, David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks and Sarah Waters’s The Paying Guests to take the prize.

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