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 

2011 Shortlist (Winner: The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht) 
 

2010 Shortlist (Winner: Barbara Kingsolver for The Lacuna)

2009 Shortlist (Winner: Marilynne Robinson for Home)

2008 Shortlist (Winner: Rose Tremain for The Road Home)

2007 Shortlist (Winner: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun)

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

 

2012 Shortlist
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.

2012 Shortlist
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.

 

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)

 

(Overall Winner: Derek Landy for Skulduggery Pleasant)
(Category Winners: Polly Dunbar for Penguin and Chris Riddell for Ottoline and the Yellow Cat)

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 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.

 

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 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.

 

2011 Longlist (Shortlist and winner to be announced)

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)

* The Booktrust Teenage Prize was suspended in 2011 "

The annual Booktrust Teenage Prize was launched in 2003 to recognise and celebrate contemporary writing for teenagers. The charity Booktrust administers the prize with the support of writers, publishers, teachers, parents and libraries.

 

2010 Shortlist (Winner: Gregory Hughes for Unhooking the Moon)

2009 Shortlist (Winner: Neil Gaiman for The Graveyard Book)

2008 Shortlist (Winner: Patrick Ness for The Knife of Never Letting Go)

 

2007 Shortlist (Winner: Marcus Sedgwick for My Swordhand is Singing) 

 

2006 Winner: Anthony McGowan for Henry Tumour 

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.

 

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')