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Author of the Year
Khaled Hosseini for A Thousand Splendid Suns
Doris Lessing for The Cleft
Ian McEwan for On Chesil Beach
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half a Yellow Sun
David Peace for The Damned Utd |
Popular Fiction Award
The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Ghost by Robert Harris
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
An Absolute Scandal by Penny Vincenzi |
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Crime Thriller of the Year
Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid
Exit Music by Ian Rankin |
Popular Non Fiction Award
Dont Stop Me Now by Jeremy Clarkson
Nigella Express by Nigella Lawson
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman |
Newcomer of the Year
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak |
Biography of the Year
My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
The Blair Years by Alistair Campbell
Spilling the Beans by Clarissa Dickson Wright
On the Edge by Richard Hammond
Agent Zigzag by Ben MacIntyre |
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Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year
Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
A Quiet Belief in Angels by RJ Ellory
Notes From An Exhibition by Patrick Gale
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
The Visible World by Mark Slouka
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Blood River by Tim Butcher
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies |
