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The category shortlists were announced on 27 November and the individual category winners will be known on 6 January: they will each win won £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) will be was announced on 28 January. '''Winner''' {{topten|author=Nathan Filer|title=The Shock of the Fall|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Matthew has a story to tell us. It begins in his childhood and on a particular holiday when he encountered a girl called Annabelle who was burying her doll, but the story isn't about Annabelle, it's initially about Simon, Matthew's older brother and we know what's going to happen straight away: 'I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon. I think you're going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he'll be dead. And he was never the same after that.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007491433</amazonuk>}}