Michelle Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 These are happening tonight, so I thought I'd post the shortlists, and will come back with the winners later.. Crime/Thriller Book of the Year:• Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz (Orion)• The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (Little Brown Book Group)• I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes (Transworld)• The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah (HarperCollins UK)• Personal by Lee Child (Transworld) Magic FM Autobiography/Biography of the Year:• The Unexpected Professor by John Carey (Faber & Faber)• So, Anyway… by John Cleese (Random House Books)• Napoleon The Great by Andrew Roberts (Penguin)• Only When I Laugh by Paul Merton (Ebury Publishing)• Please, Mister Postman by Alan Johnson (Transworld) Food & Drink Book of the Year:• The Art Of Eating Well by Jasmine & Melissa Hemsley (Ebury Publishing)• Mary Berry Cooks by Mary Berry (Ebury Publishing)• Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes by Tom Kerridge (Bloomsbury)• Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi (Ebury Publishing)• River Cottage Light & Easy by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Bloomsbury) Children’s Book of the Year:• Animalium by Jenny Broom & Katie Scott (Bonnier Publishing)• Archie Green And The Magician’s Secret by D D Everest (Faber & Faber)• Awful Auntie by David Walliams (HarperCollins)• Goth Girl And The Fete Worse Than Death by Chris Riddell (Pan Macmillan)• Minecraft: The Official Construction Handbook by Matthew Neeler and Phil Southam (Egmont) Audible.co.uk Audiobook of the Year:• Awful Auntie by David Walliams (HarperCollins)• More Fool Me by Stephen Fry (Random House Audio)• Walking Home by Clare Balding (Penguin Audio)• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (Whole Story Audiobooks)• Man At The Helm by Nina Stibbe (Audible Studios) International Author of the Year:• The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson (HarperCollins)• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Pan Macmillan)• A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride (Gallery Beggar/Faber & Faber)• The Long Haul / Wimpy Kid Series by Jeff Kinney (Penguin)• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselved by Karen Joy Fowler (Profile Books) Books Are My Bag New Writer of the Year:• Elizabeth Missing by Emma Healey (Penguin Books)• In The Light Of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman (Pan Macmillan)• Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe (Penguin Books)• The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (Pan Macmillan)• Wake by Anna Hope (Transworld) Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year:• The Shock Of The Fall by Nathan Filer (HarperCollins)• Elizabeth Missing by Emma Healey (Penguin Books)• How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran (Ebury Publishing)• Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse (Orion)• Secrets Of The Lighthouse by Santa Montefiore (Simon & Schuster UK Ltd) Non-fiction Book of the Year:• Curious by Rebecca Front (Orion)• How To Speak Money by John Lanchaster (Faber & Faber)• Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe (Penguin Books)• Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine (Faber & Faber)• Waterloo: The History Of Four Days, Three Armies And Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell (Harper Collins) UK Author of the Year:• How To Be Both by Ali Smith (Penguin General)• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters• Us by David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)• The Love Song Of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce (Transworld)• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (Hodder & Stoughton) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I'd like to see Jonas Jonasson get it for the International author. I don't know the others in the category but The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is one of my favorite books I can't wait to get to The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden. Also got to major cheer for Lee Child's Personal, one of the best Reacher books in awhile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 The only one I have read is I Am Pilgrim and thought it was absolutely brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 The only one I have read is I Am Pilgrim and thought it was absolutely brilliant. Same here. I've put the bio of Napoleon on my Amazon wish list too, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 I loved The Shock of the Fall when I read it, a few others are on my TBR or on my wishlist. There are also quite a few I haven't heard of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie H Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Yeah, most of the books made me go ...."huh?" Like Athena said, The Shock of the Fall was excellent, and The Love Song Of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce and The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton is on my local library's waiting lists at the moment. Plus a handful of other books on my TBR list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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