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Award Winners & Shortlists
Awards are an excellent way of finding books you will treasure. The books listed in the categories below were all award winners or short-listed.
Latest News The Man Booker Prize for 2011 was won by Julian Barnes for The Sense of an Ending. The 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been won by Kim Scott for Deadman Dance. The 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction has been won by Téa Obreht for The Tiger's Wife. The 2011 Edgar Award Best Novel has been won by Steve Hamilton for The Lock Artist. The 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been won by Jennifer Egan for A Visit From the Goon Squad. Aminatta Forna has won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book for The Memory of Love. The Best First Book was won by Craig Cliff for A Man Melting. The Costa Book Prize for 2010 Novel was won by Maggie O'Farrell for The Hand That First Held Mine. The Costa Biography Award was won by Edmund De Waal for The Hare With Amber Eyes. The winners of the 2010 New Zealand Post Awards have been announced. The full list can be found here... The 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been won by Peter Temple for Truth. The 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction has been won by Barbara Kingsolver for The Lacuna. Winners of the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards 2010 have been announced. The full list is here.. The 2010 Edgar Award Best Novel has been won by John Hart for The Last Child. The 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been won by Paul Harding for Tinkers. Rana Dasgupta has won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book for Solo. The Best First Book was won by Glenda Guest for Siddon Rock. The Adventures of Vela by Albert Wendt, has won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for the Asia Pacific Region. The overall winners for Best Book and Best First Book will be decided on Monday 12 April 2010. Val McDermid has won the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award. Val's latest novel is Fever of the Bone. William Brodrick has won the CWA Gold Dagger for A Whispered Name. Johan Theorin has won the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for Echoes from The Dead. The Man Booker Prize for 2010 was won by Howard Jacobson for The Finkler Question. The Man Booker Prize for 2009 was won by Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall |
