The Galaxy National Book Awards (Previously known as the Galaxy British Book Awards) are given annually and promoted by the UK publishing industry trade journal Publishing News. They are also known as the Nibbies. It's all very glamourous and the quality of winners over the years is proven. Simply, one of the world's leading literary prizes.

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2010 Galaxy National Book Awards Shortlists

Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Book of the Year

Dead Like You by Peter James  by Peter James  (Macmillan)

The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson  (Sphere)

Jump! by Jilly Cooper OBE (Bantam Press)

One Day by David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)

The Red Queen (Cousins' War Series 2) by Philippa Gregory (Simon & Schuster)

Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child (Bantam Press)

Non-Fiction Book of the Year

Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos (Bloomsbury)

At Home: A short history of private life by Bill Bryson (Doubleday)

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor (Viking)

A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr Andrew Marr (Pan)

Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre (Bloomsbury)

National Book Tokens New Writer of the Year

The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals by Patrick Barkham (Granta Books)

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal (Chatto & Windus)

The Legacy by Katherine Webb (Orion)

lMr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt (Fig Tree)

tMr. Rosenblum's List: Or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman by Natasha Solomons (Sceptre)

Rupture by Simon Lelic (Picador)

WH Smith Children's Book of the Year

The Great Hamster Massacre by Katie Davies , illus Hannah Shaw (Simon and Schuster)

Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking) (Walker Books)

Mr Stink by David Walliams (HarperCollins Childrens Books)

Shadow by Michael Morpurgo (HarperCollins Childrens Books)

TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow (Puffin)

Zog by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler (Alison Green Books)

Tesco Food & Drink Book of the Year

The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit (Bloomsbury)

Jamie's 30-Minute Meals by Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph)

Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home by Nigella Lawson (Chatto & Windus)

Kitchenella: The secrets of women: heroic, simple, nurturing cookery - for everyone by Rose Prince

Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi (Ebury Press)

Tender: Volume II, A cook's guide to the fruit garden by Nigel Slater(Fourth Estate)

Tesco Biography of the Year

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie (Harper NonFiction)

Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005–2010 by Chris Mullin (Profile Books)

The Fry Chronicles: A Memoir by Stephen Fry (Michael Joseph)

A Journey by Tony Blair (Hutchinson)

eWait For Me: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire (John Murray)

What You See Is What You Get: My Autobiography by Alan Sugar (Macmillan)

International Author of the Year

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (Penguin)

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (Fourth Estate)

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium Trilogy Book 3) by Stieg Larsson (Quercus/MacLehose Press)

The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Fig Tree)

Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador)

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Tuskar Rock Press)

Waterstone's UK Author of the Year

C by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape)

The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell (Headline Review)

Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday)

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell (Sceptre)

Trespass by Rose Tremain (Chatto & Windus)

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate)

2009 winners Galaxy National Book Awards

Galaxy Book of the Year

Winner: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House- KateSummerscale (Bloomsbury)

Borders Author of the Year Winner & Shortlist

Winner: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic Books)

• Somewhere Towards the End Diana Athill (Granta Books)
• The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)
• Breaking Dawn(Twilight Saga) by Stephenie Meyer (Atom)
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama (Canongate)
• The Road Home by Rose Tremain (Vintage)

Tesco Biography of the Year

Winner: Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (Canongate)

• At My Mother's Knee ... by Paul O'Grady (Bantam Press)
• Coming Back to Me: The Autobiography of Marcus Trescothick by Marcus Trescothick (HarperSport)
• Dear Fatty by Dawn French (Century)
• Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton : an Autobiography by J.G Ballard (Fourth Estate)
• That's Another Story: The Autobiography by Julie Walters (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year

Winner: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (MacLehose Press)

• Child 44by Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster)
• The Business by Martina Cole (Headline)
• No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (Orion)
• Revelation (Shardlake) by C.J Sansom (Pan)
• When Will There be Good News? By Kate Atkinson (Doubleday)

Waterstone’s Newcomer of the Year

Winner: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster)

• Inside the Whale by Jennie Rooney (Vintage)
• Loving Frankby Nancy Horan (Sceptre)
• The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama (Abacus)
• Mudbound by Hilary Jordan (Windmill)
• One of Us by Melissa Benn (Vintage)

Sainsbury’s Popular Fiction Award

Winner: Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks (Michael Joseph)

• Azincourtby Bernard Cornwell (HarperCollins)
• The Outcastby Sadie Jones (Vintage)
• Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern (Harper)
• Things I Want My Daughters to Knowby Elizabeth Noble (Penguin)
• This Charming Manby Marian Keyes (Michael Joseph)

Play.com Popular Non-Fiction Award

Winner: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury

• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (Allen Lane)
• Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s by Jennifer Worth (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• A History of Modern Britainby Andrew Marr (Pan)
• The Mighty Book of Booshby Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt (Canongate)
• Stephen Fry in America by Stephen Fry (HarperCollins)

Richard & Judy's Best Read of the Year

Winner: When Will There be Good News? By Kate Atkinson (Doubleday)

• The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress by Frances Osborne (Virago)
• The Brutal Art by Jesse Kellerman (Sphere)
• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (Atlantic)
• December by Elizabeth H. Winthrop (Sceptre)
• The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson (Canongate)

• The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin (John Murray)
• Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (Fourth Estate)
• The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (Doubleday)
• The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill Houseby Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury)

WHsmith Children's Book of the Year

Winner: Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga) by Stephenie Meyer (Atom)

• Dinosaurs Love Underpants by Claire Freedman, illus Ben Cort (Simon & Schuster Children's Books)
• Horrid Henry Robs the Bankby Francesca Simon (Orion Children's Books)
• "Captain Underpants" and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People (Captain Underpants) by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic)
• Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox: 6by Eoin Colfer (Puffin)
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury)

Complete Winners Lists 1991 to 2008 with Amazon Book Links for more information click here

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2008 Winners The Galaxy Book of the Year
On Chesil Beachby Ian McEwanReader's Digest Author of the Year Award
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwanThe Book People Outstanding Achievement Award
JK RowlingRichard & Judy's (left)

Best Read of the Year
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniWH Smith Children's Book of the Year Award
Horrid Henry And The Abominable Snowman by Francesca Simon Published by Orion

Tesco Biography of the Year Award
My Booky Wook by Russell BrandBooks Direct

Crime Thriller of the Year Award
Book of the Dead by Patricia CornwellWaterstone's

Newcomer of the Year Award
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn

Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim EdwardsPlay.com

Popular Non-Fiction Award
Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman

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Richard & JudyBest Read of the Year
Ten titles, each a good read, but only one will be named Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year2008 ShortlistRandom Acts of Heroic Love, Danny Scheinmann, Black Swan / Transworld
Thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini, Bloosmbury- winner
The Rose Of Sebastopol, Katharine McMahon, Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Orion
A Quiet Belief In Angels, RJ Ellory, Orion
Notes from an Exhibition, Patrick Gale, Fourth Estate / HarperCollins
Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris, Viking / Penguin
The Visible World, Mark Slouka, Portobello Booksu
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones, John Murray / Hodder Headline
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart, Tim Butcher, Chatto / RandomHouse
The Welsh Girl, Peter Ho Davies , Sceptre / Hodder Headlinea
2008

Readers Digest Author of the Year Five authors who have made waves with their writing, including the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature

Khaled Hosseini for A Thousand Splendid Suns Bloomsbury
Doris Lessing for The Cleft Fourth Estate
Ian McEwan for On Chesil Beach Jonathan Cape
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun HarperPerennial
David Peace for The Damned Utd Faber & Faber& Faber

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2007 Winners & Shortlists

2007 Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year

The Interpretation of Murder Jed Rubenfeld Headline Review

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Readers Digest Author of the Year

WINNER - Richard Dawkins,OUP & Bantam PressShortlisted

Borders Book of the Year

WINNER - The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn and Hal Iggulden, HarperCollinsShortlisted
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WHSmith Children's Book of the Year

WINNER -Flanimals of the Deep, Ricky Gervais, Faber & FaberShortlisted

Booksamazon.co.uk biography of the year
WINNER - The Sound of Laughter, Peter Kay Century

Newcomer of the Year

WINNER - The Island, Victoria Hislop (below), Headline Review

Sainsbury's Popular Fiction

WINNER - Anybody Out There?, Marian Keyes, Michael JosephShortlisted

Tesco Sports Book of the Year

WINNER - Gerrard: My Autobiography, Steven Gerrard BantamShortlisted

PLAY.COM TV & Film Book of the Year

WINNER - The Devil Wears Prada: Movie Tie-In Lauren Weisberger HarperCollinsShortlisted

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Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year
WINNER - Labyrinth Kate Mosse OrionShortlisted

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PREVIOUS WINNERS 1991-2006 The Lifetime Achievement Award
2006 Jamie Oliver
2005 Sir John Mortimer
2004 Sir David Attenborough
2003 Alan Bennett
2002 Mark Barty-King
2001 Ernest Hecht
2000 Spike Milligan
1999 Maeve Binchy
1998 Jilly Cooper
1997 Paul Scherer
1996 Wilbur Smith
1995 Delia Smith
1994 Catherine Cookson
1993 Dr. D.G.HessayonRichard & Judy Best Read of the Year
2006 Labyrinth Kate Mosse (Orion)
2005 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell (Sceptre)
2004 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold (Picador)The Book of the Year
2006 Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince: Children's Edition (Harry Potter 6) JK Rowling (Bloomsbury)
2005 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown (Corgi)
2004 Eats shoots and leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Lynne truss (Profile)
2003 Stupid White Men: ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! Michael Moore (Penguin)
2002 BillyPamela Stephenson (HarperCollins)
2001 Man and BoyTony Parsons (HarperCollins)
2000 Managing My Life: The Autobiography Alex Ferguson (Hodder & Stoughton)
1999 Birthday Letters Ted Hughes (Faber & Faber)
1998 Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel Helen Fielding (Picador)
1997 Longitude Dava Sobel (Fourth Estate)
1996 Delia's Winter Collection (BBC Books)
1995 Writing Home Alan Bennett (Faber & Faber)
1994 Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang (Flamingo)Back to top

The Author of the Year

2008 - On Chesil Beachby Ian McEwan
2006 - Alan Bennett
2005 Sheila Hancock
2004 Alexander McCall Smith
2003 Sarah Waters
2002 Philip Pullman
2001 Nigella Lawson
2000 J K Rowling
1999 Beryl Bainbridge
1998 Louis de Bernieres
1997 Bill Bryson
1996 Salman Rushdie
1995 Sebastian Faulks
1994 Roddy Doyle
1993 Andrew Morton
1992 Peter Mayle
1991 Peter Ackroyd
1990 HRH, Prince of Wales

The Children's Book of the Year
2006 Ark Angel (Alex Rider Adventures) Anthony Horowitz (Walker Books)
2005 The Gruffalo's ChildJulia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler (Macmillan Children's Books)
2004 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Adult EditionMark Haddon (David Fickling)
2003 Girls in Tears (Girls) Jacqueline Wilson (Corgi Children's)
2002 Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer (Viking/Puffin)
2001 The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials) Philip Pullman (Scholastic)
2000 The Illustrated Mum Jacqueline Wilson (Doubleday) 1999 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) J K Rowling (Bloomsbury)
1998 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) J K Rowling (Bloomsbury)
1997 Northern Lights (Golden Compass) (His Dark Materials) (His Dark Materials) Philip Pullman (Scholastic)
1996 The Hutchinson Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature ed Alison Sage (Hutchinson)The Children's Author of the Year
1995 Allan & Janet Ahlberg
1994 Anne Fine
1993 Raymond Briggs
1992 Dick King-Smith
1991 Anne Fine
1990 Roald DahlThe Illustrated Children's Book of the Year
1995The Most Amazing Pop-up Science Book (Watts Amazing Science Books) Jay Young (Watts Books)
1994 Mummy Laid an Egg (Red Fox Picture Books)Babette Cole (Jonathan Cape)
1993 Penguin Small (Book & CD) Mick Inkpen (Hodder)
1992 Farmer Duck (Big Books) Helen Oxenbury (Walker Books)
1991 The Mousehole Cat (Book & CD) Nicola Bayley (Walker Books)The Illustrated Book of the Year
2004 England's Thousand Best Houses Simon Jenkins (Allen Lane)
2003 Sahara Michael Palin (Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated)
2002 The Blue PlanetAndrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill, Martha Holmes (BBC Worldwide)
2001 The Beatles Anthology (Cassell)
2000 Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope, 1899-1999. Small Edition Bruce Bernard (Phaidon Press)
1999 Ethel and ErnestRaymond Briggs (Jonathan Cape)
1998 Lost Gardens Of Heligan (Updated edition) Tim Smit (Gollancz)
1997 Flora Britannica: The Definitive New Guide to Britain's Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees Richard Mabey (Sinclair-Stevenson)
1996 The River Cafe Cookbook Rose Gray & Ruth Rogers (Ebury Press)
1995 The Art Book (Phaidon Press)

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The Newcomer of the Year
2006 Marina Lewycka
2005 Susanna Clarke
2004 Monica Ali
2003 Allison Pearson
2002 Pete McCarthy
2001 Zadie Smith
2000 Sort Of Books and Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart
1999 Borders UK
1998 Daisy & Tom
1997 Kate Atkinson
1990 Bryce CourtenayBack to top

The TV & Film Book of the Year
2006The Constant GardenerJohn le Carré (Hodder & Stoughton)
2005 Himalaya Michael Palin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
2004 How Clean Is Your House? Kim Woodburn & Aggie MacKenzie (Michael Joseph)
2003 What Not To Wear: The Rules Trinny Woodall & Susannah Constantine (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)The Biography of the Year
2006 Sharon Osbourne Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography(Time Warner)
2005 My Life Bill Clinton (Hutchinson)
2004 Toast Nigel Slater (Fourth Estate)
2003 Churchill: A Biography Roy Jenkins (Pan)The Popular Fiction Award
2006 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger (Vintage)The Literary Fiction Award
2005 Cloud AtlasDavid Mitchell (Sceptre)
2004 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Adult Edition Mark Haddon (Jonathan Cape)The History Book of the Year
2005 William Pitt the Younger: A Biography William Hague (HarperCollins)
2004 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Simon Sebag Montefiore (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)The Sports Book of the Year
2006 Being Freddie: My Story So FarAndrew Flintoff (Hodder & Stoughton)
2005 Gazza: My Story Paul Gascoigne (Headline)
2004 Martin Johnson Autobiography (Headline)The Audiobook of the Year
2004 Forgotten Voices of the Great War: In Association with the Imperial War Museum (Brentford Trilogy Series) Arthur (Random House)
2003 A Series Of Unfortunate Events Complete 13 Book Audio CD Set, 53 CDs, 58 Hours written by Lemony Snicket, read by Tim Curry (Collins)
2002 The Laying on of Hands (BBC Radio Collection) written & read by Alan Bennett (BBC Radio Collection)The Crime Thriller of the Year
2006 The Take Martina Cole (Headline)
2005 Fleshmarket Close Ian RankinThe deciBel Writer of the Year
2006 Diana Evans
2005 Hari KunzruThe Fastest Selling Biography of All Time
2004 David Beckham: My Side - The Autobiography David Beckham (CollinsWillow)The Travel Writer of the Year
1993 Michael Palin Pole to Pole : With Michael Palin(BBC Books)
1992 Mark Shand Travels on My Elephant (Jonathan Cape)
1991 V.S. Naipaul India: A Million Mutinies (Heinemann)
1990 Peter Mayle A Year in Provence (Hamish Hamilton)The Fantasy and Science Fiction Author of the Year
1994 Terry PratchettBestseller of the Year
1991 Delia Smith's Christmas (BBC Books) Back to top

The Galaxy Book of the Year
On Chesil Beachby Ian McEwanReader's Digest Author of the Year Award
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwanThe Book People Outstanding Achievement Award
JK RowlingRichard & Judy's (left)Best Read of the Year
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniWH Smith Children's Book of the Year Award
Horrid Henry And The Abominable Snowman by Francesca Simon Published by OrionTesco Biography of the Year Award
My Booky Wook by Russell BrandBooks Direct Crime Thriller of the Year Award
Book of the Dead by Patricia CornwellWaterstone's Newcomer of the Year Award
What Was Lost by Catherine O'FlynnSainsbury's Popular Fiction Award
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

Play.com Popular Non-Fiction Award
Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman

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Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year
Ten titles, each a good read, but only one will be named Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year2008 ShortlistRandom Acts of Heroic Love, Danny Scheinmann, Black Swan / Transworld
Thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini, Bloosmbury- winner
The Rose Of Sebastopol, Katharine McMahon, Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Orion
A Quiet Belief In Angels, RJ Ellory, Orion
Notes from an Exhibition, Patrick Gale, Fourth Estate / HarperCollins
Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris, Viking / Penguin
The Visible World, Mark Slouka, Portobello Booksu
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones, John Murray / Hodder Headline
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart, Tim Butcher, Chatto / RandomHouse
The Welsh Girl, Peter Ho Davies , Sceptre / Hodder Headlinea

2008 Readers Digest Author of the Year

Five authors who have made waves with their writing, including the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for LiteratureShortlistKhaled Hosseini for A Thousand Splendid Suns Bloomsbury
Doris Lessing for The Cleft Fourth Estate
Ian McEwan for On Chesil Beach Jonathan Cape
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun HarperPerennial
David Peace for The Damned Utd Faber & Faber& FaberBack to top

2008 Waterstone's Newcomer of the Year
Five writers who have made an impact with their first published booksShortlistRajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone Bloomsbury
Catherine O'Flynn What Was Lost Tindal Street
Stef Penney The Tenderness of Wolves Quercus
Paul Torday Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Markus Zusak The Book Thief Doubleday
2008 WHSmith Children's Book of the Year
20 titles - four in each age category - are on the Children's Book of the Year long list. The winner in each category has formed the shortlistShortlistThat's Not My Penguin Fiona Watt Usborne
Horrid Henry And The Abominable Snowman (Book & CD) Francesca Simon Orion Children's Books
Katie Price's Perfect Ponies: My Pony Care Book Katie Price Red Fox
Born to Run Michael Morpurgo HarperCollins Children's
Kiss Jacqueline Wilson Doubleday Children's2008 Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year
Three masters and two mistresses of the criminal genre have produced some of their finest work yet.ShortlistBad Luck and Trouble Lee Child Bantam Press
Book of the Dead Patricia Cornwell Little,Brown
The Tin Roof Blowdown James Lee Burke Orion
The Grave Tattoo Val McDermid Harper
Exit Music Ian Rankin Orions
2008 Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award
An eclectic, international mix, three from well-established authors and two from first-time novelistsThe Memory Keeper's Daughter (Thorndike Paperback Bestsellers) Kim Edwards Penguin
The Ghost Robert Harris, Hutchinson
A Thousand Splendid SunsKhaled Hosseini, Bloomsbury
The House at RivertonKate Morton, Pan
An Absolute Scandal Penny Vincenzi Headline Review
2008 PLAY.com Popular Non-fiction Award
Broadcasters and TV personalities dominate this list, which draws on popular culture, food and travel.ShortlistDon't Stop Me Now Jeremy Clarkson, Michael Joseph
Nigella Express Nigella Lawson, Chatto & Windus
A History of Modern Britain Andrew Marr, Macmillan
The Wild Places Robert Macfarlane, Granta
Long Way Down, Ewan McGregor & Charlie Boorman, Sphere
2008 Tesco Biography of the Year
Five of the most astonishing biographies of the last year. Though each very different from the other, all showcase lives extremely well-lived.ShortlistMy Booky Wook Russell Brand Hodder & Stoughton
The Blair Years Alastair Campbell H
Spilling the BeansClarissa Dickson-Wright Hodder & Stoughton
On The Edge Richard Hammond Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy Ben MacIntyre Bloomsbury
The Book People Lifetime Achievement Award
This Award recognises an enduringly popular author whose books have made an outstanding contribution to contemporary literature.Back to topPopular US Author Grisham Wins 2007 British Award
John Grisham (right) was awarded the highly regarded Life Achievement Award at the 2007 British Book Awards. Obviously impressed with occasion, Grisham told the gathered throng, "I can't wait to go back to the States with this Nibbie and tell people how books should be celebrated". Grisham's, Playing for Pizza is currently a best seller in the UK and the USA. It seems that religion is very much in the firing line at the moment. The author of the controversial book,The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins, was the 2007 Author of the year.Just to prove that mega-talent is bestowed on but a few, comedian, Ricky Gervais,best known his cult show, The Office, won Children's Book of the Year for Flanimals of the Deep.Other winners included another comedian Peter Kay (left), for his highly entertaining autobiography, The Sound of Laughter, with The Dangerous Book for Boys taking out the prestigious Book of the Year Award.2007 Winners & ShortlistsRichard & Judy Best Read of the YearWINNER - The Interpretation of Murder Jed Rubenfeld Headline ReviewShortlisted
The Girls Lori Lansens Virago Press
Restless William Boyd Bloomsbury
Love in the Present Tense, Catherine Ryan Hyde Doubleday
Semi-detached, Griff Rhys Jones Penguin
This Book Will Save Your Life A.M. Homes Granta
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Fourth Estate
The Testament of Gideon Mack Mack James Robertson Hamish HamiltonBack to topReaders Digest Author of the YearWINNER - Richard Dawkins (right),OUP & Bantam PressShortlisted
Marina Lewycka Viking
Kate Mosse Orion
Jodi Picoult Hodder & StoughtonBorders Book of the YearWINNER - The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn and Hal Iggulden, HarperCollinsShortlisted
The God Delusion,Richard Dawkins Bantam Press
The Island Victoria Hislop Headline Review
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters Virago
The Sound of Laughter Peter Kay Century
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky Chatto & WindusBack to topWHSmith Children's Book of the YearWINNER - Flanimals of the Deep, Ricky Gervais, Faber & FaberShortlisted
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne David Fickling Books
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, Francesca Simon Orion Children's Books
Peter Pan in Scarlet, Geraldine McCaughrean Oxford University Press
Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett Doubleday
The Incredible Book Eating BoyThe Incredible Book Eating Boy, Oliver Jeffers HarperCollins Children's Booksamazon.co.uk biography of the year
WINNER - The Sound of Laughter, Peter Kay Century
Humble Pie Gordon Ramsay HarperCollins
Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man, Claire Tomalin Viking
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog, John Grogan Hodder & StoughtonWaterstones Newcomer of the YearWINNER - The Island, Victoria Hislop (below), Headline ReviewShortlisted
Michael Cox, The Meaning of Night, John Murray
Jane Harris, The Observations, Faber & Faber
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale, OrionSainsbury's Popular FictionWINNER - Anybody Out There?, Marian Keyes, Michael JosephShortlisted
Close, Martina Cole Headline
The Constant Princess, Philippa Gregory, HarperCollins
Wicked! Jilly Cooper BantamTesco Sports Book of the YearWINNER - Gerrard: My Autobiography, Steven Gerrard BantamShortlisted
Pele: The Autobiography, Pelé ,Simon & Schuster
Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World, Harry Thompson John Murray
There's an Awful Lot of Bubbly in Brazil: The Life and Times of a Bon Viveur, Alan Brazil with Mike Parry HighdownPLAY.COM TV & Film Book of the YearWINNER - The Devil Wears Prada: Movie Tie-In Lauren Weisberger HarperCollinsShortlisted
QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance, The QI Team Faber & Faber
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It Al Gore Bloomsbury
"Planet Earth": The Photographs Alastair Fothergill BBC Booksdecibel Writer of the YearWINNER -Jackie Kay (right) Wish I Was Here PicadorShortlisted
We Brits, John Agard, Bloodaxe
Londonstani, Gautam Malkani, Fourth Estate
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desas BloomsburyBack to top2006 Winners and ShortlistsRichard & Judy Best Read of the Year
WINNER - Labyrinth Kate Mosse OrionShortlisted
The History of Love Nicole Krauss Penguin
The Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside Richard Benson Penguin
The Conjuror's Bird Martin Davies Hodder & Stoughton
Arthur and George Julian Barnes Jonathan Cape
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets Eva Rice Headline Review
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth Andrew Smith Bloomsbury
March: A Love Story in a Time of War Geraldine Brooks HarperPerennial
Empress Orchid Anchee Min Bloomsbury
The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly Orion2006 WHSmith Book of the Year
WINNER- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6)[Children's Edition], JK Rowling BloomsburyShortlisted
Margrave of the Marshes John Peel & Sheila Ravenscroft Bantam Press
The World According to Clarkson Jeremy Clarkson Penguin
Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography Sharon Osbourne (right) Time Warner
Jamie's ItalyJamie Oliver Michael Joseph
The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade Piers Morgan Ebury PressBack to top2006 amazon.co.uk Biography of the Year
WINNER - Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography Sharon Osbourne (right) Time WarneShortlisted
Next to You: Caron's Courage Remembered by Her MotherHunniford Michael Joseph
Stuart: A Life Backwards Alexander Masters Fourth Estate
Margrave of the MarshesJohn Peel & Sheila Ravenscroft Bantam PressRed House Children's Book of the Year
WINNER - Ark Angel: Bk. (Alex Rider 6) Anthony Horowitz Walker BooksShortlisted
Eldest Christopher Paolini Doubleday
Silverfin: A James Bond Adventure (Young Bond) Charlie Higson Puffin
Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin Dugald Steer Templar
I, Coriander Sally Gardner Orion
"...and That's When It Fell Off in My Hand." (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson) Louise Rennison HarperCollinsSainsbury Popular Fiction Award
WINNER - The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger VintagShortlisted
Labyrinth Kate Mosse Orion
My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult Hodder
The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Black SwanReaders Digest Author of the Year
WINNER -Alan Bennett Faber / ProfileShortlisted
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Phoenix
Kazuo Ishiguro Faber
John Banville Picador2006 BCA Crime Thriller of the Year
WINNER - The Take, Martina Cole, HeadlineShortlisted
Lifeless Mark Billingham Little,Brown
The Lighthouse P.D. James Faber
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback) Lionel Shriver Serpent's Tail2006 decibel Writer of the Year
WINNER - Diana Evans for 26a (P.S.) (P.S.) VintageShortlisted
Nadeem Aslam for Maps for Lost Lovers Faber
Zadie Smith for On Beauty Hamish Hamilton
Helen Oyeyemi for The Icarus Girl BloomsburyWaterstone's Newcomer of the YearWINNER- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka Penguin
The Historian Elizabeth Kostova Time WarnerShortlisted
The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel Mark Gatiss Pocket
A Year in the Merde Stephen Clarke Black Swan2006 Borders Book of the Year
WINNER - Auschwitz: A New History, Laurence Rees BBC BooksShortlisted
Mao: The Unknown Story Jung Chang & Jon Halliday Cape
Istanbul: Memories of a City Orhan Pamuk Faber
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the WestTom Holland Little,BrownBook Author 2006
WINNER - The Constant Gardener John Le Carre Hodder
Coast: The Journey Continues Christopher Somerville BBC Books
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) CS Lewis HarperCollins Children's
Rick Stein's French Odyssey Rick Stein BBC Books2006 PLAY.COM TV & Film Book of the Year
WINNER - Being Freddie: My Story So Far, Andrew Flintoff HodderShortlisted
What If I Had Never Tried It Valentino Rossi Century
Race Against Time Ellen McArthur Michael Joseph
My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes Gary Imlach Yellow Jersey

Back to topPREVIOUS WINNERS 1991-2006The Lifetime Achievement Award
2006 Jamie Oliver
2005 Sir John Mortimer
2004 Sir David Attenborough
2003 Alan Bennett
2002 Mark Barty-King
2001 Ernest Hecht
2000 Spike Milligan
1999 Maeve Binchy
1998 Jilly Cooper
1997 Paul Scherer
1996 Wilbur Smith
1995 Delia Smith
1994 Catherine Cookson
1993 Dr. D.G.HessayonRichard & Judy Best Read of the Year
2006 Labyrinth Kate Mosse (Orion)
2005 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell (Sceptre)
2004 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold (Picador)The Book of the Year
2006 Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince: Children's Edition (Harry Potter 6) JK Rowling (Bloomsbury)
2005 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown (Corgi)
2004 Eats shoots and leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Lynne truss (Profile)
2003 Stupid White Men: ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! Michael Moore (Penguin)
2002 BillyPamela Stephenson (HarperCollins)
2001 Man and BoyTony Parsons (HarperCollins)
2000 Managing My Life: The Autobiography Alex Ferguson (Hodder & Stoughton)
1999 Birthday Letters Ted Hughes (Faber & Faber)
1998 Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel Helen Fielding (Picador)
1997 Longitude Dava Sobel (Fourth Estate)
1996 Delia's Winter Collection (BBC Books)
1995 Writing Home Alan Bennett (Faber & Faber)
1994 Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang (Flamingo)Back to topThe Author of the Year
2006 - Alan Bennett
2005 Sheila Hancock
2004 Alexander McCall Smith
2003 Sarah Waters
2002 Philip Pullman
2001 Nigella Lawson
2000 J K Rowling
1999 Beryl Bainbridge
1998 Louis de Bernieres
1997 Bill Bryson
1996 Salman Rushdie
1995 Sebastian Faulks
1994 Roddy Doyle
1993 Andrew Morton
1992 Peter Mayle
1991 Peter Ackroyd
1990 HRH, Prince of WalesThe Children's Book of the Year
2006 Ark Angel (Alex Rider Adventures) Anthony Horowitz (Walker Books)
2005 The Gruffalo's ChildJulia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler (Macmillan Children's Books)
2004 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Adult EditionMark Haddon (David Fickling)
2003 Girls in Tears (Girls) Jacqueline Wilson (Corgi Children's)
2002 Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer (Viking/Puffin)
2001 The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials) Philip Pullman (Scholastic)
2000 The Illustrated Mum Jacqueline Wilson (Doubleday) 1999 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) J K Rowling (Bloomsbury)
1998 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) J K Rowling (Bloomsbury)
1997 Northern Lights (Golden Compass) (His Dark Materials) (His Dark Materials) Philip Pullman (Scholastic)
1996 The Hutchinson Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature ed Alison Sage (Hutchinson)The Children's Author of the Year
1995 Allan & Janet Ahlberg
1994 Anne Fine
1993 Raymond Briggs
1992 Dick King-Smith
1991 Anne Fine
1990 Roald DahlThe Illustrated Children's Book of the Year
1995The Most Amazing Pop-up Science Book (Watts Amazing Science Books) Jay Young (Watts Books)
1994 Mummy Laid an Egg (Red Fox Picture Books)Babette Cole (Jonathan Cape)
1993 Penguin Small (Book & CD) Mick Inkpen (Hodder)
1992 Farmer Duck (Big Books) Helen Oxenbury (Walker Books)
1991 The Mousehole Cat (Book & CD) Nicola Bayley (Walker Books)The Illustrated Book of the Year
2004 England's Thousand Best Houses Simon Jenkins (Allen Lane)
2003 Sahara Michael Palin (Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated)
2002 The Blue PlanetAndrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill, Martha Holmes (BBC Worldwide)
2001 The Beatles Anthology (Cassell)
2000 Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope, 1899-1999. Small Edition Bruce Bernard (Phaidon Press)
1999 Ethel and ErnestRaymond Briggs (Jonathan Cape)
1998 Lost Gardens Of Heligan (Updated edition) Tim Smit (Gollancz)
1997 Flora Britannica: The Definitive New Guide to Britain's Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees Richard Mabey (Sinclair-Stevenson)
1996 The River Cafe Cookbook Rose Gray & Ruth Rogers (Ebury Press)
1995 The Art Book (Phaidon Press)Back to topThe Newcomer of the Year
2006 Marina Lewycka
2005 Susanna Clarke
2004 Monica Ali
2003 Allison Pearson
2002 Pete McCarthy
2001 Zadie Smith
2000 Sort Of Books and Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart
1999 Borders UK
1998 Daisy & Tom
1997 Kate Atkinson
1990 Bryce CourtenayBack to topThe TV & Film Book of the Year
2006The Constant GardenerJohn le Carré (Hodder & Stoughton)
2005 Himalaya Michael Palin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
2004 How Clean Is Your House? Kim Woodburn & Aggie MacKenzie (Michael Joseph)
2003 What Not To Wear: The Rules Trinny Woodall & Susannah Constantine (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)The Biography of the Year
2006 Sharon Osbourne Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography(Time Warner)
2005 My Life Bill Clinton (Hutchinson)
2004 Toast Nigel Slater (Fourth Estate)
2003 Churchill: A Biography Roy Jenkins (Pan)The Popular Fiction Award
2006 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger (Vintage)The Literary Fiction Award
2005 Cloud AtlasDavid Mitchell (Sceptre)
2004 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Adult Edition Mark Haddon (Jonathan Cape)The History Book of the Year
2005 William Pitt the Younger: A Biography William Hague (HarperCollins)
2004 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Simon Sebag Montefiore (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)The Sports Book of the Year
2006 Being Freddie: My Story So FarAndrew Flintoff (Hodder & Stoughton)
2005 Gazza: My Story Paul Gascoigne (Headline)
2004 Martin Johnson Autobiography (Headline)The Audiobook of the Year
2004 Forgotten Voices of the Great War: In Association with the Imperial War Museum (Brentford Trilogy Series) Arthur (Random House)
2003 A Series Of Unfortunate Events Complete 13 Book Audio CD Set, 53 CDs, 58 Hours written by Lemony Snicket, read by Tim Curry (Collins)
2002 The Laying on of Hands (BBC Radio Collection) written & read by Alan Bennett (BBC Radio Collection)The Crime Thriller of the Year
2006 The Take Martina Cole (Headline)
2005 Fleshmarket Close Ian RankinThe deciBel Writer of the Year
2006 Diana Evans
2005 Hari KunzruThe Fastest Selling Biography of All Time
2004 David Beckham: My Side - The Autobiography David Beckham (CollinsWillow)The Travel Writer of the Year
1993 Michael Palin Pole to Pole : With Michael Palin(BBC Books)
1992 Mark Shand Travels on My Elephant (Jonathan Cape)
1991 V.S. Naipaul India: A Million Mutinies (Heinemann)
1990 Peter Mayle A Year in Provence (Hamish Hamilton)The Fantasy and Science Fiction Author of the Year
1994 Terry PratchettBestseller of the Year
1991 Delia Smith's Christmas (BBC Books) Back to top