award winners...

Man Booker Prize for Fiction

WINNER

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
£18.99

From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.

SHORTLISTED

The Children's Book, A.S. Byatt, £18.99

Summertime, J.M. Coetzee, £17.99

The Quickening Maze, Adam Foulds, £12.99

The Glass Room, Simon Mawer, £16.99

The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters, £16.99

Independent Booksellers' Prize

WINNER  Category: Adult

The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry
£7.99

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr. Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

WINNER  Category: Childrens

Artemis Fowl and The Time Paradox
Eoin Colfer
£6.99

Teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has a new mission – and this time it's personal. Artemis's mother is dangerously ill, and the only way to find a cure is for Artemis – with Holly Short by his side – to go back in time to battle his younger, more evil self . . . Action packed and full of humour – a must-read for boys and girls aged 10+.

Orange Prize for Fiction

WINNER

Home
Marilynne Robinson
£7.99

Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes HOME, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead.

SHORTLISTED

The Wilderness, Samantha Harvey, £12.99

Molly Fox's Birthday, Deirdre Madden, £7.99

Scottsboro: A Novel, Ellen Feldman, £7.99

Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamsie, £11.99

The Invention of Everything Else, Samantha Hunt, £7.99

Roald Dahl Funny Prize

WINNER  Category: Age 6 and under

Mr.Pusskins Best in Show
Sam Lloyd
£10.99

From the moment Mr Pusskins spies the prize for Best In Show, he is smitten. He just has to get his paws on that trophy, and nothing, NOTHING is going to stand in his way . . . not even that mean, double-crossing poodle, Madame Fifi Foo-Foo.

Mr Pusskins won the Booktrust Early Years Award, was a New York Times bestseller and has become the grumpiest yet most loveavble ginger cat in the children's book world today.

WINNER  Category: Age 7 to 14

Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky (Grubtown Tales)
Philip Ardagh
£4.99

You won't find Grubtown on any maps. The last time any map-makers were sent anywhere near the place they were found a week later wearing nothing but pages from a telephone directory, and calling for their mothers. It's certainly a town and certainly grubby - except for the squeaky clean parts - but everything else we know about the place comes from Beardy Ardagh, town resident and author of these tales.

Sheffield Children's Book Award

WINNER  Category: Picture Book

Smelly Peter: The Great Pea Eater
Steve Smallman & Joelle Dreidemy
£5.99

Young Peter Pod, was a little bit odd: he ate nothing but peas, fresh or tinned, for breakfast and brunch, for dinner and lunch, though he always had terrible wind! Peter is different. He only ever eats peas and they make him green and rather smelly! Then one day he is picked up by a spaceship full of aliens, who whisk him away to make him their king.

WINNER  Category: Shorter Novel

The Mum Shop - Tales of Trouble!
Ceci Jenkinson
£4.99

Ever wished you could swap your mum? Be careful what you wish for...Mum Trouble! Oli wants to swap his mum for someone who'll let him eat loads of pepperoni pizza and watch Real Blood Bath Murders on telly. Mother 44 drives a tank and trains secret agents. But she's also hatching an evil anti-children plot - and she's looking for a boy to help. When the Mum Shop's Matcher puts them together, it's trouble!

WINNER  Category: Longer Novel

Bog Child
Siobhan Dowd
£6.99

Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls. "Bog Child" is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.

Radio 2 Best Bedtime Book

WINNER

The Gruffalo
Julia Donaldson
£5.99

"A gruffalo? What's a gruffalo?"
"A gruffalo! Why, didn't you know? He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws."

A rhyming story of a mouse and a monster. Little mouse goes for a walk in a dangerous forest. To scare off his enemies, he invents tales of a fantastical creature called the Gruffalo. Imagine his surprise when he meets the real Gruffalo!

SHORTLISTED

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl, £6.99

Each Peach Pear Plum, Janet & Allan Ahlberg, £5.99

Five On A Treasure Island, Enid Blyton, £4.99

The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe, C.S Lewis, £5.99

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle, £6.99

Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak, £5.99

Winnie The Pooh, A.A Milne, £12.99

Crime Thriller Awards

WINNER

A Whispered Name
William Brodrick
£7.99

'To keep quiet about something so important ...well, it's almost a lie, wouldn't you say?' When Father Anselm meets Kate Seymour in the cemetery at Larkwood, he is dismayed to hear her allegation. Herbert Moore had been one of the founding fathers of the Priory, revered by all who met him, a man who'd shaped Anselm's own vocation. The idea that someone could look on his grave and speak of a lie is inconceivable. But Anselm soon learns that Herbert did indeed have secrets in his past that he kept hidden all his life.

WINNER

Echoes from the Dead
Johan Theorin
£7.99

Can you ever come to terms with a missing child? Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever been found. Until his shoe arrives in the post. It has been sent to Julia's father, a retired sea-captain still living on the island. Soon he and Julia are piecing together fragments of the past: fragments that point inexorably to a local man called Nils Kant, known to delight in the pain of others. But Nils Kant died during the 1960s. So who is the stranger seen wandering across the fields as darkness falls? It soon becomes clear that someone wants to stop Julia's search for the truth. And that he's much, much closer than she thinks ...

WINNER

Long Lost
Harlan Coben
£10.99

Harlan Coben's millions of fans have waited three long years for a new Myron Bolitar novel and soon their patience will be rewarded in spectacular fashion. Myron hasn't heard from Terese Collins in years. Not since their affair ended without explanation. He's had no contact with her since, so her call catches him off guard. She's in Paris, she says, in trouble and only Myron can help. Terese tells him a sad story she's never before revealed: a good marriage, her struggles to get pregnant, the happiest moment of her life when her only child was born, the day everything she'd ever loved was taken from her. As the years passed Terese heard nothing from her ex-husband, until the phone call that brought her to Paris. But on arrival, Terese finds her husband has been murdered, leaving her as a prime suspect.

William Hill Sports Book of the Year

WINNER

Harold Larwood: The authorized biography of the world's fastest bowler
Duncan Hamilton
£20.00

The Nottinghamshire bowler Harold Larwood was his country's chief weapon in the notorious 1932-3 Ashes tour, during which England's fast bowlers used so-called 'Bodyline' tactics to counter the threat posed by the great Australian batsman Don Bradman. Larwood's pace and hostility left Australia's batsmen battered, reduced Bradman to the status of mere mortal - and brought England a 4-1 series victory. But the fury it engendered brought Anglo-Australian relations to the brink of collapse.

SHORTLISTED

Ring of Fire: The Inside Story of Valentino Rossi and MotoGP, Rick Broadbent, £12.99

Eclipse: Story of the Rogue, the Madam, the Horse that changed racing, Nicholas Clee, £25.00

Confessions of a Rugby Mercenary, John Daniell, £7.99

Feet of the Chameleon; The Story of African Football, Ian Hawkey, £16.99

Simple Goalkeeping Made Spectacular, Graham Joyce, £8.99