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6th October 2008

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Lessing joins Jordan on Nibbies

12.03.08 Anna Richardson

Khaled Hosseini has scored a hat trick of shortlist slots for this year’s Galaxy British Book Awards—the only author ever to do so—while Doris Lessing makes a first shortlist appearance and Katie Price, a.k.a. Jordan, gets a surprise nod in the children’s book category.

Lessing, who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, is shortlisted for author of the year for her novel The Cleft, joined by Hosseini, whose A Thousand Splendid Suns is also up for both the Popular Fiction and Richard & Judy" best read categories.

Highlights from the shortlist announcement today (12th March) will be broadcast on "Richard & Judy” on Friday (14th March), and the winners will be announced on 9th April.

 

THE SHORTLISTS IN FULL:

Reader's Digest Author of the Year
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (HarperPerennial)
Khaled Hosseini (Bloomsbury)
Doris Lessing (Fourth Estate)
Ian McEwan (Cape)
David Peace (Faber)

Tesco Biography of the Year
Agent Zigzag by Ben MacIntyre (Bloomsbury)
The Blair Years by Alastair Campbell (Hutchinson)
My Booky Wook by Russell Brand (Hodder)
On The Edge by Richard Hammond (Weidenfeld)
Spilling the Beans by Clarissa Dickson-Wright (Hodder)

Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year
Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child (Bantam Press)
Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell (Little, Brown)
Exit Music by Ian Rankin (Orion)
The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid (Harper)
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke (Orion)

Waterstone's Newcomer of the Year
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Bloomsbury)
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn (Tindal Street)
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (Quercus)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday (Weidenfeld)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Doubleday)

Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award
An Absolute Scandal by Penny Vincenzi (Headline Review)
The Ghost by Robert Harris (Hutchinson)
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (Pan)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (Penguin)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Bloomsbury)

Play.com Popular Non-Fiction Award
Don't Stop Me Now by Jeremy Clarkson (Michael Joseph)
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr (Macmillan)
Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman (Sphere)
Nigella Express by Nigella Lawson (Chatto)
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (Granta)

"Richard & Judy" Best Read
Blood River by Tim Butcher (Chatto)
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)
Notes From an Exhibition by Patrick Gale (Fourth Estate)
A Quiet Belief in Angels by R J Ellory (Orion)
Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann (Black Swan)
The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon (Weidenfeld)
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (Viking)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Bloomsbury)
The Visible World by Mark Slouka (Portobello)
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (Sceptre)

W H Smith Children's Book of the Year
Born to Run by Michael Morpurgo (HarperCollins)
That’s Not My Penguin by Fiona Watt (Usbourne)
My Pony Care Book by Katie Price (Random House)
Kiss by Jacqueline Wilson (Random House)
Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman by Francesca Simon (Orion)

The Book People Outstanding Achievement Award
No shortlist

Anna Richardson Nibbies Prize