The Bookseller has reported the winners. Let's start with the crime and thriller genre and the closely related - and boy, there are a few of them.
Waterstone’s New Writer of the Year - Tom Rob Smith for Child 44 (Simon & Schuster); Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the late Steig Larsson for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (MacLehose Press); Kate Atkinson’s When Will There Be Good News? (Doubleday) won Richard & Judy’s Best Read of the Year; Sebastian Faulks, won the Sainsbury’s Popular Fiction Award for Devil May Care (Penguin); Kate Summerscale won two for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Bloomsbury), the biggest of the night the Galaxy Book of the Year and the play.com Popular Non-Fiction Award.
Aravind Adiga had already won the Man Booker Prize for The White Tiger (Atlantic), but he added the Borders Author of the Year at tonight's "Nibbies". Michael Palin was honoured with the Outstanding Achievement Award. Stephenie Meyer won W H Smith Children’s Book of the Year for Breaking Dawn (Atom).
And last but not least, the Tesco Biography of the Year did not go to a UK celebrity; it was won by US president Barack Obama for Dreams from My Father (Canongate).
Should you be so inclined, you can watch the proceedings on Sunday evening on UKTV's channel "Watch".
Glad to see that S Larsson won. I haven't read Child 44 but from all accounts it sounds an excellent choice. Again, I have not read this Atkinson but I loved the first in the series (Case Histories). So, all in all, seems a good selection of winners.
Posted by: Maxine | 04 April 2009 at 18:16