Twin win for Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton

Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton were the toast of last night’s Australian Book Industry Awards in Sydney.

Author Andy Griffiths. Photographer: Liam Kidston.

Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton were the toast of last night’s Australian Book Industry Awards in Sydney, with The 52-Storey Treehouse named best book for younger children and the overall book of the year.

The duo’s publisher, Pan Macmillan, was named publisher of the year. Perth author Brooke Davis also tasted double success, with her debut novel Lost & Found winning the new writing and general fiction awards.

The literary fiction winner was Maxine Beneba Clarke for Foreign Soil, the international book of the year was Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, while the general nonfiction award went to Tim Low for his study of Australia’s birds, Where Song Began.

Museum of Old and New Art founder David Walsh won the biography award for his memoir A Bone of Fact. Judith Rossell’s Withering-By-Sea was named best book for older children and the illustrated book prize went to Peter Pedersen for Anzac Treasures. Melbourne-based Black Inc was named small publisher of the year.