Saturday 30 October 2010

2010 Galaxy National book Awards shortlists





The 2010 Galaxy National book Awards shortlists have been announced and crime fiction authors have been nominated in a number of categories.

Dead Like You by Peter James (Macmillan) and Worth Dying For by Lee Child (Bantam Press) have been nominated in the Sainsbury’s Popular Fiction Book of the Year category. Rupture (Picador) by Simon Lelic has been nominated in the National Book Token New Writer of the Year.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (Quercus/MacLehose Press) and Room (Picador) by Emma Donoghue has been nominated in the International Author of the Year category. In the Waterstone's UK Author of the Year category, Kate Atkinson’s Started Early, Took My Dog (Doubleday) has been nominated.












The other categories include –

Non-Fiction Book of the Year,

WH Smith Children's Book of the Year.

Tesco Food & Drink Book of the Year and

Tesco Biography of the Year

More information and the complete short list can be found in the Bookseller.

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