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'''Novel Award'''
{{topten
|author=Hilary Mantel
|title=Bring up the Bodies
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=
Thomas Cromwell is now very far from his humble beginnings. He is Henry VIII's chief minister. Katherine of Aragorn is no longer Queen. The Princess Mary has been disinherited. Anne Boleyn wears the crown and has produced a daughter, Elizabeth. But there is no sign of a son and Henry is beginning to regret his secession from Rome. We pick up from [[Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel|Wolf Hall]] during the royal progress of 1535 and from there, we chart the destruction of the new Queen.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315090</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Stephen May
|title=Life! Death! Prizes!
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Billy's mum is dead. Billy is 19 years old when his mum resists a mugger; this is the last thing she ever does, leaving Billy with 6 year old Oscar to face life together. They'll be fine. For a start, their life isn't as bad as the 'Life! Death! Prizes!' type magazines at supermarket check-outs. Billy has a job at the local history museum, Oscar's doing ok at school, so, despite their Aunt Toni, despite Oscar's recently reappearing father, despite the PTA mothers at the school gates... and social services... and the fact that the mugger is a local lad that Billy sees around... yep, they'll be fine.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408819139</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=James Meek
|title=The Heart Broke In
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= In ''The Heart Broke In'', James Meek manages to combine some big and serious issues into a compellingly readable and entertaining moral thriller. At the centre of the book are two siblings who are very different. Ritchie is a former rock star, now working in the world of reality television producing a game show about teenage pop bands while his younger sister, Bec, is a devoted scientist working on a cure for malaria. On the one hand it's a story of family dynamics, but it's also a thoughtful and well constructed tale of morality and judgement. Setting science against religion it asks very modern day questions about who is the guardian of morality in today's world and who, if anyone, has the right to judge others' behaviour.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857862901</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Joff Winterhart
|title=Days of the Bagnold Summer
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Graphic Novel
|summary= Jonathan Cape
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090844</amazonuk>
}}
'''First Novel Award'''
{{topten
|author=J W Ironmonger
|title=The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=(Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297866095</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Jess Richards
|title=Snake Ropes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=
It's the time for the tall mainland men to come to the island to trade, so 16 year old Mary prepares. She brings out her handmade 'broideries' and hides Barney, her little brother, in a cupboard. This is a necessary preparation born of fear, for the island boys have been vanishing, taken by the traders. On this particular day Mary's broideries go, but so does Barney.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144473783X</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Francesca Segal
|title=The Innocents
|rating=Not Yet Reviewed
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= (Chatto & Windus)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186992</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Benjamin Wood
|title=The Bellwether Revivals
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=(Simon & Schuster)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857206958</amazonuk>
}}
'''Biography Award'''
{{topten
|author=Artemis Cooper
|title=Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Biography
|summary= John Murray
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719554497</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Selina Guinness
|title=The Crocodile by the Door: The story of a house, a farm
and a family
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Biography
|summary= Penguin Ireland
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844881571</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Kate Hubbard
|title=Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Biography
|summary= (Chatto & Windus)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701183683</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot
|title=Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary= If there's one person able to produce a worthwhile potted history of James Joyce's daughter, it should be Mary M Talbot. She's an eminent academic, and her father was a major Joycean scholar. Both females had parents with the same names too - James and Nora, both took to the stage when younger after going to dance school, but it's the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similarities, in a dual biography painted by one person we know by now as more than able to produce a delightful graphic novel - [[:Category:Bryan Talbot|Bryan Talbot]].
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096087</amazonuk>
}}
'''Poetry Award'''
{{topten
|author=Sean Borrodale
|title=Bee Journal
|rating=Not reviewed
|genre=Poetry
|summary=
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097210</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Julia Copus
|title=The World’s Two Smallest Humans
|rating=Not reviewed
|genre=Poetry
|summary=
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571284574</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Selima Hill
|title=People Who Like Meatballs
|rating=Not Reviewed
|genre=Poetry
|summary=
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1852249455</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Kathleen Jamie
|title=The Overhaul
|rating=Not reviewed
|genre=Poetry
|summary=
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720204X</amazonuk>
}}
'''Children's Book Award'''
{{topten
|author=Sally Gardner
|title=Maggot Moon
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=There are certain books that you know, right from the first pages, are destined to be classics. There is something about the phrasing, about the concept and about the main character which chime so perfectly together that they cannot fail to move you, to open a window in your world and show you another, deeper truth. Such a book is ''Maggot Moon''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471400042</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Diana Hendry
|title=The Seeing
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's 1956 when Natalie comes storming into the quiet seaside town of Norton and slap-bang into Lizzie's life. Natalie is from the wrong side of the tracks and reserved, well-to-do Lizzie is immediately drawn to this unconventional girl who wears her poverty and neglect like a badge of courage. As the two girls grow closer over the summer, Natalie reveals a shocking secret - her odd younger brother Philip has the gift of second sight and can see "left over Nazis" lying in wait, ready to start another war when the time is right. Natalie says it's up to the three of them to rid Norton of these LONs.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>037033213X</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Hayley Long
|title=What’s up with Jody Barton?
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Teens
|summary= (Macmillan Children’s Books)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330523023</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Dave Shelton
|title=A Boy and a Bear in a Boat
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= ''A boy and a bear go to sea, equipped with a suitcase, a comic book and ukulele. They are only travelling a short distance and it really shouldn't take too long. But then their boat encounters "unforeseeable anomalies"... Faced with turbulent stormy seas, a terrifying sea monster and the rank remains of The Very Last Sandwich, the odds soon become pitted against our unlikely heroes.''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618964</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Hilary Mantel
|title=Bring up the Bodies
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=
Thomas Cromwell is now very far from his humble beginnings. He is Henry VIII's chief minister. Katherine of Aragorn is no longer Queen. The Princess Mary has been disinherited. Anne Boleyn wears the crown and has produced a daughter, Elizabeth. But there is no sign of a son and Henry is beginning to regret his secession from Rome. We pick up from [[Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel|Wolf Hall]] during the royal progress of 1535 and from there, we chart the destruction of the new Queen.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315090</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Stephen May
|title=Life! Death! Prizes!
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Billy's mum is dead. Billy is 19 years old when his mum resists a mugger; this is the last thing she ever does, leaving Billy with 6 year old Oscar to face life together. They'll be fine. For a start, their life isn't as bad as the 'Life! Death! Prizes!' type magazines at supermarket check-outs. Billy has a job at the local history museum, Oscar's doing ok at school, so, despite their Aunt Toni, despite Oscar's recently reappearing father, despite the PTA mothers at the school gates... and social services... and the fact that the mugger is a local lad that Billy sees around... yep, they'll be fine.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408819139</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=James Meek
|title=The Heart Broke In
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= In ''The Heart Broke In'', James Meek manages to combine some big and serious issues into a compellingly readable and entertaining moral thriller. At the centre of the book are two siblings who are very different. Ritchie is a former rock star, now working in the world of reality television producing a game show about teenage pop bands while his younger sister, Bec, is a devoted scientist working on a cure for malaria. On the one hand it's a story of family dynamics, but it's also a thoughtful and well constructed tale of morality and judgement. Setting science against religion it asks very modern day questions about who is the guardian of morality in today's world and who, if anyone, has the right to judge others' behaviour.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857862901</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Joff Winterhart
|title=Days of the Bagnold Summer
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Graphic Novel
|summary= Jonathan Cape
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090844</amazonuk>
}}
'''First Novel Award'''
{{topten
|author=J W Ironmonger
|title=The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=(Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297866095</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Jess Richards
|title=Snake Ropes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=
It's the time for the tall mainland men to come to the island to trade, so 16 year old Mary prepares. She brings out her handmade 'broideries' and hides Barney, her little brother, in a cupboard. This is a necessary preparation born of fear, for the island boys have been vanishing, taken by the traders. On this particular day Mary's broideries go, but so does Barney.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144473783X</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Francesca Segal
|title=The Innocents
|rating=Not Yet Reviewed
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= (Chatto & Windus)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186992</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Benjamin Wood
|title=The Bellwether Revivals
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=(Simon & Schuster)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857206958</amazonuk>
}}
'''Biography Award'''
{{topten
|author=Artemis Cooper
|title=Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Biography
|summary= John Murray
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719554497</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Selina Guinness
|title=The Crocodile by the Door: The story of a house, a farm
and a family
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Biography
|summary= Penguin Ireland
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844881571</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Kate Hubbard
|title=Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Biography
|summary= (Chatto & Windus)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701183683</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot
|title=Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary= If there's one person able to produce a worthwhile potted history of James Joyce's daughter, it should be Mary M Talbot. She's an eminent academic, and her father was a major Joycean scholar. Both females had parents with the same names too - James and Nora, both took to the stage when younger after going to dance school, but it's the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similarities, in a dual biography painted by one person we know by now as more than able to produce a delightful graphic novel - [[:Category:Bryan Talbot|Bryan Talbot]].
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096087</amazonuk>
}}
'''Poetry Award'''
{{topten
|author=Sean Borrodale
|title=Bee Journal
|rating=Not reviewed
|genre=Poetry
|summary=
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097210</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Julia Copus
|title=The World’s Two Smallest Humans
|rating=Not reviewed
|genre=Poetry
|summary=
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571284574</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Selima Hill
|title=People Who Like Meatballs
|rating=Not Reviewed
|genre=Poetry
|summary=
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1852249455</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Kathleen Jamie
|title=The Overhaul
|rating=Not reviewed
|genre=Poetry
|summary=
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720204X</amazonuk>
}}
'''Children's Book Award'''
{{topten
|author=Sally Gardner
|title=Maggot Moon
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=There are certain books that you know, right from the first pages, are destined to be classics. There is something about the phrasing, about the concept and about the main character which chime so perfectly together that they cannot fail to move you, to open a window in your world and show you another, deeper truth. Such a book is ''Maggot Moon''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471400042</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Diana Hendry
|title=The Seeing
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's 1956 when Natalie comes storming into the quiet seaside town of Norton and slap-bang into Lizzie's life. Natalie is from the wrong side of the tracks and reserved, well-to-do Lizzie is immediately drawn to this unconventional girl who wears her poverty and neglect like a badge of courage. As the two girls grow closer over the summer, Natalie reveals a shocking secret - her odd younger brother Philip has the gift of second sight and can see "left over Nazis" lying in wait, ready to start another war when the time is right. Natalie says it's up to the three of them to rid Norton of these LONs.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>037033213X</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Hayley Long
|title=What’s up with Jody Barton?
|rating=Not yet reviewed
|genre=Teens
|summary= (Macmillan Children’s Books)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330523023</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|author=Dave Shelton
|title=A Boy and a Bear in a Boat
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= ''A boy and a bear go to sea, equipped with a suitcase, a comic book and ukulele. They are only travelling a short distance and it really shouldn't take too long. But then their boat encounters "unforeseeable anomalies"... Faced with turbulent stormy seas, a terrifying sea monster and the rank remains of The Very Last Sandwich, the odds soon become pitted against our unlikely heroes.''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618964</amazonuk>
}}
