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.

 

2012 Longlist (Winner: Hilary Mantel for Bring Up The Bodies)

 

2011 Shortlist (Winner: Julian Barnes for The Sense of an Ending)
2010 Shortlist (also view Longlist) (Winner: Howard Jacobson for The Finkler Question)

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

2013 Shortlist  

2012 Shortlist (Winner: Patrick Ness for A Monster Calls)
2011 Shortlist (Winner: Patrick Ness for Monsters of Men)
2010 Shortlist (Winner: Neil Gaiman for The Graveyard Book)
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.

2013 Shortlist

2012 Shortlist (Winner: Patrick Ness for A Monster Calls)
2011 Shortlist (Winner: Grahame Baker-Smith for Farther)
2010 Shortlist (Winner: Freya Blackwood for Harry and Hopper)
2009 Shortlist (Winner: Catherine Rayner for Harris Finds His Feet)
2008 Shortlist (Winner: Emily Gravett for Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears)

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.

 

2012 Children's Book Award Shortlist (Winner: Sally Gardner for Maggot Moon)

2011 Children's Book Award Shortlist  (Winner: Moira Young for Blood Red Road)

2010 Children's Book Award Shortlist (Winner: Jason Wallace for Out of Shadows)
2009 Children's Book Award Shortlist (Winner: Patrick Ness for The Ask and the Answer)

2011 Novel Award Shortlist ;(Winner: Andrew Miller for Pure)

2010 Novel Award Shortlist (Winner: Maggie O'Farrell for The Hand That First Held Mine)
2009 Novel Award Shortlist (Winner: Colm Toibin for Brooklyn )

2010 Poetry Award Shortlist (Winner: Jo Shapcott for Of Mutability)
(Jo Shapcott also won the 2010 Costa Book of the Year award)
2009 Poetry Award Shortlist (Winner: Christopher Reid for A Scattering)
(Christopher Reid also won the 2009 Costa Book of the Year award)

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

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.

 

2011 Winner: Philip Roth

2009 Winner: Alice Munro

2007 Winner: Chinua Achebe

 

2005 Winner: Ismail Kadare

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.

2012 Shortlist (Winner: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller )

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.

 

2012 Shortlist (Winner: Wade Davis for Into the Silence)

2011 Longlist (Winner Frank Dikötter for Mao's Great Famine)

2010 Longlist & 2010 Shortlist (Winner: Barbara Demick for Nothing to Envy)

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)

The Blue Peter Book Awards have been celebrating the best authors, the most creative illustrators and the greatest reads for children since 2000. There are three categories of awards. The favourite book in the three categories is voted Blue Peter Book of the Year.

 

Most Fun Story with Pictures

2011 Shortlist (Winner: Lunatics and Luck by Marcus Sedgwick)
2010 Shortlist (Winner: Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things by Guy Bass)

Book I Couldn’t Put Down / Favourite Story

2011 Shortlist (Winner: Dead Man's Cove by Lauren St John - also voted Blue Peter Book of the Year)
2010 Shortlist (Winner: Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes - also voted Blue Peter Book of the Year)

Best Book With Facts

2011 Shortlist (Winner: Do Igloos Have Loos? by Mitchell Symons)
2010 Shortlist (Winner: Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You by Mitchell Symons)

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. 

2012 Shortlist (Winner: Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle for The Secret Race)

2010 Longlist and Shortlist (Winner: Brian Moore for Beware of the Dog)

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 Berkshire Book Award was launched in 2004 and has been tremendously successful and popular with young people aged 11-14 who live or go to school in Berkshire. The Award is unique in the county and differs from other Award schemes through its involvement of young readers in both nominating the titles and selecting the winner. Previous winners have included Jeff Kinney, Robert Muchamore and Anthony Horowitz.

2013 Shortlist (Winner: David Walliams  for Gangsta Granny)

The Oxfordshire Book Award was originally set up as the West Oxfordshire Book Award in 2007 and then expanded to become the Oxfordshire Book Award in 2008. It is special because it is an award voted for entirely by children, who read and nominate their favourite books.

2013 Shortlist - Secondary Books (Winner: Anne-Marie Conway for Butterfly Summer)
2013 Shortlist - Primary Books (Winner: R.J. Palacio for Wonder)
2013 Shortlist - Picture Books (Winner: Richard Byrne for The Really, Really, Really Big Dinosaur)

Set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote international fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible, the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman. Any woman writing in English - whatever her nationality, country of residence, age or subject matter - is eligible.

2013 Shortlist