Press Release
18 Hachette titles shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards17/10/2011
18 Hachette titles have been shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards. The winners of the 11 categories will be awarded on 4th November. The event will be filmed, with a series of six programmes about the awards to be screened between 13th November and 17th December on More4.
The shortlists in full:
Waterstone's UK Author of the Year
A Sense Of An Ending, Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape)
Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch (Canongate Books)
The Bees, Carol Ann Duffy (Picador)
The House of Silk, Anthony Horowitz (Orion)
The Long Song, Andrea Levy (Headline Review)
The Stranger’s Child, Alan Hollinghurst (Picador)
Popular Fiction Book of the Year
A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Dawn French (Michael Joseph)
Daughters-in-Law, Joanna Trollope (Doubleday)
Gillespie and I, Jane Harris (Faber and Faber)
My Last Duchess, Daisy Goodwin (Headline Review)
Snuff, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday)
The Radleys, Matt Haig (Canongate Books)
WHSmith Paperback of the Year
Room, Emma Donoghue (Picador)
The Brightest Star in the Sky, Marian Keyes (Penguin)
The Postmistress, Sarah Blake (Penguin)
The Red Queen, Philippa Gregory (Simon & Schuster)
When God was a Rabbit, Sarah Winman (Headline Review)
You’re Next, Gregg Hurwitz (Sphere)
Thriller & Crime Novel of the Year in association with iBookstore
Before I Go To Sleep, S.J. Watson (Doubleday)
The Fear Index, Robert Harris (Hutchinson)
Heartstone, C J Sansom (Pan)
The Family, Martina Cole (Headline)
The Impossible, Dead Ian Rankin (Orion)
Trick Of The Dark, Val McDermid (Sphere)
Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year
A History of the World in 100 Objects, Neil Macgregor (Allen Lane)
How To Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran (Ebury Press)
Madeleine, Kate McCann (Bantam Press)
Map of a Nation, Rachel Hewitt (Granta Books)
The Good The Bad and The Multiplex, Mark Kermode (Random House Books)
Wonders of the Universe, Brian Cox (Collins)
New Writer of the Year
Before I Go To Sleep, S J Watson (Doubleday)
Grace Williams Says it Loud, Emma Henderson (Sceptre)
Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman (Bloomsbury)
Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz)
Snowdrops, A D Miller (Atlantic Books)
When God was a Rabbit, Sarah Winman (Headline Review)
Food & Drink Book of the Year
Home Cooking Made Easy, Lorraine Pascale (HarperCollins)
Jamie's Great Britain, Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph)
Made in Sicily, Giorgio Locatelli (Fourth Estate)
Rick Stein’s Spain, Rick Stein (BBC Books)
The Good Cook, Simon Hopkinson (BBC Books)
The Vintage Tea Party, Angel Adoree (Mitchell Beazley)
Biography/Autobiography of the Year
Charles Dickens, Claire Tomalin (Viking)
Genius in My Basement, Alexander Masters (Fourth Estate)
Hitch 22, Christopher Hitchens (Atlantic Books)
Life, Keith Richards (Phoenix)
Mud Sweat and Tears, Bear Grylls (Bantam Press)
Red Dust Road, Jackie Kay (Picador)
International Author of the Year
A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan (Corsair)
IQ84, Haruki Murakami (Harvill Secker)
Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (Harvill Secker)
On Canaan’s Side, Sebastian Barry (Faber and Faber)
The Leopard, Jo Nesbo (Vintage)
The Tiger’s Wife, Tea Obreht (Phoenix)
Children's Book of the Year
A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness (Walker Books)
Dead Man’s Cove, Lauren St John (Orion)
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Annabel Pitcher (Indigo)
One Dog and His Boy, Eva Ibbotson (Marion Lloyd Books)
Stuck, Oliver Jeffers (Harper Collins Children’s Books)
The Highway Rat, Julia Donaldson illus. Axel Scheffler (Alison Green Books)
audible.co.uk Audiobook of the Year
Any Human Heart, William Boyd, narrator Mike Grady (Whole Story Audiobooks)
Before I Go To Sleep, S J Watson, narrator Susannah Harker (Random House AudioGo)
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, Louisa Young, narrator Dan Stevens (HarperAudio)
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Annabel Pitcher, narrator David Tennant (Orion Audio)
Snowdrops, A.D. Miller, narrator Kevin Howarth (Whole Story Audiobooks)
The Player Of Games, Iain M Banks, narrator Peter Kenny (Hachette Digital)