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Book Awards
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Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts
Lucy Dillon
Winner of the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2010.
When the abandoned strays from a local dogs’ home are matched with brand new owners, it turns out it might not just be the dogs who need rescuing. Rachel’s aunt...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/2009
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The Nearly-Weds
Jane Costello
Winner of the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year Award 2010.
Bride Zoe Moore is left blushing when she’s jilted at the altar. Fleeing to America, Zoe becomes a nanny to sexy, moody single dad Ryan’s two adorable children. Slowly,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2009
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Animal Instincts
Nell Dixon
Winner of the RNA Love Story of the Year Award 2010.
Is it true love or just animal attraction? When Clodagh Martin’s wild celebrity sister turns up drunk at Rainbow’s End, Clodagh’s animal sanctuary, announcing she’s in trouble and staying, Clodagh’s...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
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Missing You
Louise Douglas
Winner of the RNA People’s Choice Award 2010.
Haunted by guilt, Fen lives a compromised life, too afraid of the past to risk becoming close to anyone. She is constantly looking over her shoulder, knowing that one day the truth will...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2010
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An Education
Lynn Barber
Winner of the RNA Romantic Film of the Year Award 2010.
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
An Education has been made...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/10/2009
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Longlisted for the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009. Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "One of the outstanding books of the year - historical fiction at its best."
April...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
August 2008
Book of the Month.
Winner of the Galaxy Crime Thriller of the Year 2009.
A forty year old mystery all mixed up with family feuds, fraud and corruption this is the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/07/2008
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A Scattering
Christopher Reid
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2009.
Josephine Hart, chair of the final judges, said: ”Out of a personal tragedy, Christopher Reid has written a masterwork which has universal power. Austere, beautiful and moving – we all felt...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/01/2009
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The Book Awards category on Lovereading will help you discover authors who are winners of, or have been in contention for, some of the most prestigious awards. By their very presence on this page, you can be sure that each of the books featured here is the 'crème-de-la-crème' of today's literature.
Click here to view the 2009 Costa Book Award shortlists.
From the huge and prestigious literary awards like the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the Orange Prize, the British Book Awards (Nibbies) and the Costa Awards, to those for specific genres like the Orange Prize for New Writers, the Hugo Awards and the Nebula Awards (Fantasy and Science Fiction) and the Crime Writers Association Dagger Awards we’ll cover the whole range.
For each award, Lovereading will feature the shortlist of books and authors before the individual winner is announced. As with all our Featured Books, you will be able to download and print off free Opening Extracts of each book. In this way, you can choose your own winner and see if the judges agree with you!
And remember, even if the judges don't pick your favourite, all Book Award titles are available to order online at 25% off the RRP.
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A selection of other awards that will feature in this Lovereading category include:
Philip K. Dick Award (FSF) Hawthornden Prize (Imaginative Literature) BSFA Awards (FSF) National Book Awards (USA) Hugo Awards (SF) Bram Stoker Awards (Horror) Parker Romantic Novel of the Year Dagger Awards (Crime Fiction) Guardian Fiction Prize The Orange Prize for New Writers
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The Road
Cormac Mccarthy
Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007.Once in a while a book comes along that is so powerful, so terrible and so beautiful that you are left...
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Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "A wonderfully-observed story of love and loss."
A great family drama about a young girl moving from Ireland to...
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The Fever of the Bone
Val Mcdermid
Val McDermid is the winner of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award 2010, which honours outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing.
CWA Hall of Fame Dagger 2009.
This award...
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The Ask and the Answer
Patrick Ness
Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "A strikingly original and compelling work."
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009.
Prize-winning...
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Auslander
Paul Dowswell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009.
A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War
Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he...
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Beauty
Raphael Selbourne
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "Captures the raw humanity of inner city life with extraordinary authenticity."
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Ostrich Boys
Keith Gray
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009.
Shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Children’s Book Award.
Costa Book Awards 2008 Judges' comment: "A life-affirming journey by three...
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The Ant Colony
Jenny Valentine
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009.
An irresistible new novel from Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children's Book Prize with Finding Violet Park.
Written...
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What I Saw and How I Lied
Judy Blundell
Winner of the prestigious National Book Award.
Julia Eccleshare's comment:
Utterly gripping and beautifully told, this is a stunning rite of passage novel full of powerful and conflicting emotions, which captures Evie’s...
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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Winner of the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. Winner of Best Novel at the Hugo Awards 2009Winner of the 2009 prestigious Newbery Medal.
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Ring of Fire
Rick Broadbent
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2009.
Ring of Fire is an insider's account of the pressures of being a MotoGP racer. We are given an insight...
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Eclipse
Nicholas Clee
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2009.
A vivid portrait of the Sport of Kings. It tells the fascinating story of a champion racehorse and the era...
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Harold Larwood
Duncan Hamilton
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2009.
A thrilling account of a forgotten hero of English
cricket. Harold Larwood's story touches on so many areas, including class structure...
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Feet of the Chameleon
Ian Hawkey
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2009.
A fascinating book traces the development of footbal in Africa,
finding out what makes African football unique and examining how the
game...
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Curse of the Pogo Stick
Colin Cotterill
Colin Cotterill was the winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library 2009 - the prize awarded for an author's body of work.
Dr Siri is back this time finding himself...
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The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Helen Grant
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009.
This debut novel is a great page-turner with an endearing story
that's full of rich detail and beautifully written. It...
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