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Galaxy Book Award Winners 2008


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This years winner are ~

 

Galaxy Book of the Year ~ On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

 

Book People Outstanding Achievement Award ~ J.K. Rowling

 

Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year ~ A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

 

Readers Digest Author of the Year ~ Ian McEwan for On Chesil Beach

 

Tesco Biography of the Year ~ My Booky Wook by Russel Brand

 

WH Smith Childrens Book of the Year ~ Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman by Francesca Simon

 

Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year ~ Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell

 

Waterstones Newcomer of the Year ~ What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn

 

Sainsburys Popular Fiction Award ~ The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards

 

Play.com Popular Non-Fiction award ~ Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor & Charlie Boorman

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Long Way Down was terrible self indulgent TV, and I doubt the book's better. Ian McEwan was always a bit dull, and has been getting worse as time has gone on.

 

Given the descriptions of On Chesil Beach, I fear it will be even worse than Atonement.

 

JK Rowling is, well, very rich. So perhaps that's an outstanding achievement. Not much literary quality there, though.

 

Russel Brand is one of the most self-important, unamusing tools I've ever had the misfortune to hear or watch, and I can't imagine his book (particularly with that astonishingly goonish name) is any better.

 

It's a pretty ropey looking list, or a very, very bad year for books.

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