17th Annual British Book Awards

Wednesday March 29th 2006 - Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London, W1K 7TN

Hosted by Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan

W H Smith Book of the Year

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince  J K Rowling (Bloomsbury)
The Insider  Piers Morgan (Ebury Press)
Jamie's Italy  Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph)
Margrave of the Marshes  John Peel & Sheila Ravenscroft (Bantam Press)
Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography  Sharon Osbourne (Time Warner)
The World According to Clarkson  Jeremy Clarkson (Michael Joseph)

Reader’s Digest Author of the Year

John Banville (Picador)
Alan Bennett (Faber and Faber / Profile Books)
Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber and Faber)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Phoenix)

Amazon Biography of the Year

Margrave of the Marshes  John Peel & Sheila Ravenscroft (Bantam Press)
Next to You  Gloria Hunniford (Michael Joseph)
Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography Sharon Osbourne (Time Warner)
Stuart: A Life Backwards Alexander Masters (Fourth Estate)

Red House Children's Book of the Year

And That's When It Fell Off In My Hand  Louise Rennison (HarperCollins Children's)
Ark Angel  Anthony Horowitz (Walker Books)
Eldest Christopher Paolini (Doubleday)
I, Coriander  Sally Gardner (Orion Children’s)
SilverFin  Charlie Higson (Puffin)
Wizardology  Dugald Steer (Templar Publishing)

Worldbooks Crime Thriller of the Year

Lifeless  Mark Billingham (Little, Brown)
The Lighthouse  PD James (Faber and Faber)
The Take  Martina Cole (Headline)
We Need To Talk About Kevin  Lionel Shriver (Serpent’s Tail)

Borders/Books etc History Book of the Year

Auschwitz Laurence Rees (BBC Books)
Istanbul  Orhan Pamuk (Faber and Faber)
Mao  Jung Chang & Jon Halliday (Jonathan Cape)
Persian Fire  Tom Holland (Little, Brown)

Waterstone’s Newcomer of the Year

Stephen Clarke A Year in the Merde (Black Swan)
Mark Gatiss  The Vesuvius Club (Pocket)
Elizabeth Kostova  The Historian (Little, Brown)
Marina Lewycka  A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian (Viking)

Sainsbury’s Popular Fiction Award

Labyrinth  Kate Mosse (Orion)
My Sister’s Keeper  Jodi Picoult (Hodder)
The Time Traveler's Wife  Audrey Niffenegger (Vintage)
The Undomestic Goddess  Sophie Kinsella (Bantam Press)

Tesco Sports Book of the Year

Being Freddie  Andrew Flintoff (Hodder)
My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes  Gary Imlach (Yellow Jersey)
Race Against Time  Ellen MacArthur (Michael Joseph)
What If I Had Never Tried It  Valentino Rossi (Century)

play.com TV & Film Book of the Year

Coast  Christopher Somerville (BBC Books)
The Constant Gardener  John Le Carre (Hodder)
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe C S Lewis (HarperCollins Children's Books)
Rick Stein's French Odyssey Rick Stein (BBC Books)

deciBel Writer of the Year

Nadeem Aslam  Maps for Lost Lovers (Faber and Faber)
Diana Evans  26a (Chatto & Windus)
Helen Oyeyemi  The Icarus Girl (Bloomsbury)
Zadie Smith  On Beauty (Hamish Hamilton)

Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year

The History of Love Nicole Krauss (Viking)
Labyrinth Kate Mosse (Orion)
The Farm Richard Benson (Viking)
The Conjuror’s Bird Martin Davies (Hodder & Stoughton)
Arthur & George Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape)
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets Eva Rice (Headline)
Moondust Andrew Smith (Bloomsbury)
March Geraldine Brooks (HarperCollins)
Empress Orchid Anchee Min (Bloomsbury)
The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly (Orion)