2010 Shortlist
(Winner: Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things by Guy Bass)

Book I Couldn’t Put Down

2010 Shortlist
(Winner: Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes - also voted Blue Peter Book of the Year)

Best Book With Facts

2010 Shortlist
(Winner: Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You by Mitchell Symons)

The Red House Children’s Book Award is the only UK book award voted for entirely by children.

 

(Overall winner: Sophie McKenzie for Blood Ties)
(Category Winners: Allan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman for The Pencil and Kes Gray for Daisy and the Trouble with Zoos)

2008 Shortlist

(Overall Winner: Derek Landy for Skulduggery Pleasant)
(Category Winners: Polly Dunbar for Penguin and Chris Riddell for Ottoline and the Yellow Cat)

The Romantic Novel of the Year Award is awarded by the Romantic Novelists' Association. It is open to all romantic fiction first published in the UK in the current year. Books are scored on criteria such as romantic content, readability, dialogue, characters, plot, style and setting.

 

2010 Shortlist (Winner: to be announced)

2009 Shortlist (Winner: Julia Gregson for East of the Sun)

2008 Shortlist (Winner: Freya North for Pillow Talk)

 

2007 Shortlist (Winner: Rosie Thomas for Iris and Ruby)

Founded in 1988, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize is awarded annually. It celebrates the best sports and sports-related books of the year.

 

2009 Shortlist (Winner: Duncan Hamilton for Harold Larwood)

2008 Shortlist (Winner: Marcus Trescothick for Coming Back to Me)

 

2007 Shortlist (Winner: Duncan Hamilton for Provided You Don't Kiss Me')

The Man Booker International Prize can be won by a living author of any nationality, providing that his or her work is available in English. It is awarded every second year for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage.

 

2009 Winner: Alice Munro

2007 Winner: Chinua Achebe

 

2005 Winner: Ismail Kadare

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.

 

2009 Shortlist (also view Longlist) (Winner: Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall)

2008 Shortlist (Winner: Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger)

 

2007 Shortlist (Winner: Anne Enright for The Gathering)

The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award goes to the book judged to be the best collection of stories published in English for the first time anywhere in the world in the twelve months between September and the following August.

 

2009 Winner: Simon Van Booy for Love Begins in Winter

2008 Winner: Jhumpa Lahiri for Unaccustomed Earth

 

2007 Winner: Miranda July for No One Belongs Here More Than You

The annual Booktrust Teenage Prize was launched in 2003 to recognise and celebrate contemporary writing for teenagers. The charity Booktrust administers the prize with the support of writers, publishers, teachers, parents and libraries.

 

2009 Shortlist (Winner: Neil Gaiman for The Graveyard Book)

2008 Shortlist (Winner: Patrick Ness for The Knife of Never Letting Go)

 

2007 Shortlist (Winner: Marcus Sedgwick for My Swordhand is Singing) 

 

2006 Winner: Anthony McGowan for Henry Tumour 

The Costa Book Awards reward books of the year by writers based in the UK and Ireland. There are five categories of prize: Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book. An overall winner of the Book of the Year is selected from the five winners.

 

2009 Novel Award Shortlist (Winner: Colm Toibin for Brooklyn)
2008 Novel Award Shortlist (Winner: Sebastian Barry for The Secret Scripture)
(Sebastian Barry also won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year award)

2009 First Novel Award Shortlist (Winner: Raphael Selbourne for Beauty)
2008 First Novel Award Shortlist (Winner: Sadie Jones for The Outcast)
 

2009 Biography Award Shortlist (Winner: Graham Farmelo for The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius)
2008 Biography Award Shortlist (Winner: Diana Athill for Somewhere Towards the End)
 

2009 Poetry Award Shortlist (Winner: Christopher Reid for A Scattering)
(Christopher Reid also won the 2009 Costa Book of the Year award)
2008 Poetry Award Shortlist (Winner: Adam Foulds for The Broken Word)

2009 Children's Book Award Shortlist (Winner: Patrick Ness for The Ask and the Answer)

2008 Children's Book Award Shortlist (Winner: Michelle Magorian for Just Henry)

The BBC National Short Story Award offers the largest prize in the world for a single short story. The winning story receives £15,000, the runner-up £3,000, and the other shortlisted stories £500.

2009 Winner: Kate Clanchy (for 'The Not-Dead and the Saved')

2009 Runner-up: Sara Maitland (for 'Moss Witch')

2008 Winner: Clare Wigfall (for 'The Numbers')

2008 Runner-up: Jane Gardam (for 'The People on Privilege Hill')

2007 Winner: Julian Gough (for 'The Orphan and the Mob')

2007 Runner-up: David Almond (for 'Slog's Dad')

The Desmond Elliott Prize is an annual prize for a first novel written in English and published in the UK. The judges look for an intelligent page-turner with broad appeal.

 

2009 Winner: Edward Hogan for Blackmoor

2008 Winner: Nikita Lalwani for Gifted

The Orange Prize for Fiction was set up in 1996, and is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman in English.

 

2009 Shortlist (Winner: Marilynne Robinson for Home)

2008 Shortlist (Winner: Rose Tremain for The Road Home)

2007 Shortlist (Winner: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun)

Each week for ten weeks the television presenters Richard and Judy review recommended books on their television programme.  The programme is broadcast on Watch TV.

 

2009 Shortlist (Winner: to be announced)

2008 Shortlist (Winner: Khaled Hosseini for A Thousand Splendid Suns)

 

The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize rewards the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by a UK or Commonwealth writer aged 35 or younger.

 

2009 Shortlist (Winner: Evie Wyld for After the Fire, a Still Small Voice)

2008 Shortlist (Winner: Henry Hitchings for The Secret Life of Words)

2006/7 Shortlist (Winner: Sarah Hall for The Carhullan Army)

The Carnegie Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book for children and young people.

 

2009 Shortlist (Winner: Siobhan Dowd for Bog Child)
2008 Shortlist (Winner: Philip Reeve for Here Lies Arthur)

The Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded by children's librarians for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people.

2009 Shortlist (Winner: Catherine Rayner for Harris Finds His Feet)
2008 Shortlist (Winner: Emily Gravett for Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears)

The BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction aims to reward the best non-fiction books. It is open to authors of non-fiction books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts.

 

2009 Shortlist  (Winner: Philip Hoare for Leviathan)

2008 Shortlist  (Winner: Kate Summerscale for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher)

 

2007 Shortlist (Winner: Rajiv Chandrasekaran for Imperial Life in the Emerald City)