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Baggies 2025 and The Year In Review
The annual Baggies are Suzi's Book Bag awards for favourite books, writers, conversations and special literary moments from the year.
The Baggie Awards archive
2025 Baggie Awards
Suzi looks back on the year in the Book Bag and awards the Baggies for favourite people, chats and books.
5 winner entriesSource: Book Bag episode captions and descriptions
Winners
2025 winners and citations
Poetry Baggie
Aftershock Review
Aftershock Review
Recognised as a major poetry force and community around recovery, with Max Wallis also praised for Well Done, You Didn't Die.
From the 2025 Baggies captions: the poetry Baggie goes to the Aftershock Review.
Extra-curricular Baggie
Max Wallis
Well Done, You Didn't Die
A special extra Baggie for the pamphlet and the wider Aftershock creative work.
From the 2025 captions: Suzi awards an extra-curricular Baggie to Max Wallis for Well Done, You Didn't Die.
Fiction Baggie
Paula Byrne
Six Weeks By the Sea
Suzi described the novel as an irresistible read about the summer Jane Austen fell in love.
From the 2025 captions: the fiction Baggie goes to Paula Byrne.
Children's Baggie
Joseph Coelho
The Boy Lost in the Maze
Recognised for a thrilling children's/YA retelling of myth and for the Book Bag conversation.
From the 2025 captions around the children's Baggie discussion.
Non-fiction Baggie and Overall Baggie of the Year
Elizabeth Goldring
Holbein
Suzi called the book stunning, beautiful and lasting scholarship.
From the 2025 captions: the Baggie of the Year is non-fiction, Holbein by Elizabeth Goldring.
Episode
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Baggies 2025 and The Year In Review. Join Suzi as she looks back on the year that was.
2025 saw a lot of interesting guests in the bag. Suzi sums it all up for you in the Year in Review.
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