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I finalisti del British Book awards

Pubblicato il 23-02-2006


Si avvicina la premiazione della 17° edizione dei British Book awards che si terrą al London hotel di Londra il 29 Marzo.
Il Premio si articola in 12 sezioni, questi sono i finalisti dell'edizione 2006.

Libro dell'anno W.H. Smith

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

Autore dell'anno del Reader's Digest

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

Biografia dell'anno Amazon

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

Libro per bambini dell'anno Red House

And That's When It Fell Off In My Hand by Louise Rennison (HarperCollins Children's)
ArkAngel by Anthony Horowitz (WalkerBooks)
Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Doubleday)
I, Coriander by Sally Gardner (Orion Children's)
SilverFin by CharlieHigson (Puffin)
Wizardology by Dugald Steer (Templar Publishing)

Thriller dell'anno Worldbooks

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

Libro storico dell'anno

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

Esordiente dell'anno Waterstone

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

Premio per la fiction Sainsbury

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

Libro sportivo dell'anno Tesco

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

Premio dell'anno per la Tv e il cinema PLAY.COM

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

Scrittore dell'anno deciBel

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

Richard and Judy Premio dell'anno

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

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