Reservoir 13
British novelist, born 1976. Won the Costa Novel Award in 2017 and the British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year in 2018.
Reservoir 13 is a 2017 novel by Jon McGregor. It won the Costa Novel Award in 2017 and the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year in 2018.
In family saga
On 2 of the 15 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Jon McGregor
- First published
- 2017
- Length
- 304 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Costa Novel Award winner, 2017
- British Book Awards Fiction winner, 2018
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Rural life, Family saga
Is Reservoir 13 worth reading?
2 of the 15 best-of lists it could have made include it: the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year and the Costa Novel Award.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (The Bookseller, 2018) | Winner | See the list |
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2017) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of Reservoir 13
The edition we link to is the Catapult paperback (2017), 304 pages.
- Publisher
- Catapult (paperback, 2017)
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
- 9781936787708
How critics, prizes and readers rate Reservoir 13
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 50% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work