Win a set of the Diverse Book Awards winners

Diverse Book Awards winners

Celebrating diverse publishing in the UK and Ireland

The Diverse Book Awards were created by bestselling, award-winning children's and YA author Abiola Bello and award-winning publicist Helen Lewis to highlight the best of the diverse voices published in the UK and Ireland. Previous winners have included Benjamin Zephaniah, Kia Abdullah, Onjali Q. Rauf and Manjeet Mann.

This year's winners were announced on 25th October. The winners are:

  • Best Picture Book: Dadaji's Paintbrush by Rashmi Sirdeshpande, illustrated by Ruchi Mhasane
  • Best Children's Book: The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger by J.T. Williams, illustrated by Simone Douglas
  • Best Young Adult Book: When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando
  • Best Adult Book: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy by Marie-Claire Amuah

To celebrate the announcement, we're giving five readers the chance to win a set of all four winning books!

'Everyone deserves to see themselves represented.' Abiola Bello and Helen Lewis


Win a set of winning books

This competition ended on 23/11/2023

Terms and Conditions

5 x winners will receive a set of the four winning books from the Diverse Book Awards 2023:

Best Picture Book: Dadaji's Paintbrush by Rashmi Sirdeshpande, illustrated by Ruchi Mhasane
Best Children's Book: The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger by J.T. Williams, illustrated by Simone Douglas
Best Young Adult Book: When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando
Best Adult Book: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy by Marie-Claire Amuah

  • By entering this competition, you also agree to the Caboodle Terms and Conditions
  • Closing date: 11:59pm, Thursday 23rd November 2023.
  • No purchase necessary.
  • Only one entry per person will be accepted. Entrants may not win more than one prize.
  • The competition is open to residents of the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, and Republic of Ireland except employees of the Booksellers Association and Book Tokens Ltd., their families, employees of participating bookshops, and anyone else connected with this promotion.
  • Entrants must be aged 18 or over.
  • The Promoter accepts no responsibility for entries that are incomplete, illegible, incorrect, corrupted or fail to reach the Promoter by the closing date for any reason. Automatically generated entries or entries via third parties are invalid and shall not be considered.
  • Entrants agree to the Promoter using their details in post-competition publicity. Your details will not be used for any other purpose, or passed onto any third parties, unless specified. Winners’ details may be shared securely with a third party (such as the publisher) in order to fulfil the dispatch of competition prizes.
  • The prizes are non-transferable and there are no cash alternatives, and are subject to availability. The Promoter reserves the right to amend the specification of the prize or offer an alternative prize. In exceptional circumstances, the Promoter reserves the right to foreclose the competition without notice.
  • If National Book Tokens gift cards or e-Gift cards are included in the prize, they can be spent in participating bookshops. Find out more.
  • If signed copies are included in the prize, books will either be signed directly by the author/illustrator(s) or signed bookplates will be provided (either separately or stuck in the book).
  • The Promoter will choose winners at random from all qualifying entries.
  • The Promoter will contact winners by email shortly after the closing date. In the event of a winner not responding after 14 days, the Promoter reserves the right to allocate the prize to another winner, or foreclose the prize. Unsuccessful entrants will not be contacted.
  • The Promoter accepts no responsibility for winners not receiving the Promoter’s communications due to their spam filter, accidental deletion, incorrect email provided, or for any other reason. In the event of this, the Promoter is unable to provide compensation.
  • The Promoter accepts no responsibility for winners not receiving their prize once it has been dispatched. On a case-by-case basis, the Promoter will do their best to compensate the winner but regretfully this may not always be possible.
  • The Promoter’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
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  • Promoter: Book Tokens Ltd, 6 Bell Yard, London, WC2A 2JR.

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