Galaxy National Book Awards 2011 - category winners
The Galaxy Book of the Year has been announced - with Caitlin Moran's How to Be a Woman, which is a firm Waterstone's favourite, taking this year's award.
Nominees included Waterstone's author of the year, Alan Hollinghurst, with The Stranger's Child, Sarah Winman's When God Was a Rabbit, which was one of our Waterstone's 11 titles this year, as well as being one of 2011's bestselling debuts, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
Other category winners included Claire Tomalin's widely acclaimed Charles Dickens: A Life, and The Good Cook, which accompanied Simon Hopkinson's hugely popular BBC series of the same name. The Children's book of the year was A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.
The full list of category winners is below.
Galaxy Book of the Year - winner
How to be a Woman
| Format: | Paperback 320 pages |
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| Published: | 16/06/2011 |
| Publisher: | Ebury Press |
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1913 - Suffragette throws herself under the King's horse. 1969 - Feminists storm Miss World. Now - Caitlin Moran rewrites "The Female... Read more
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Waterstone's UK author of the year 2011
The Stranger's Child - Signed Edition
| Format: | Hardback |
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| Published: | 01/07/2011 |
| Publisher: | Picador |
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In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two... Read more
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Paperback of the year
Room
| Format: | Paperback 336 pages |
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| Published: | 08/01/2011 |
| Publisher: | Picador |
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Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. 'This book will... Read more
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International author of the year
A Visit from the Goon Squad
| Format: | Paperback 368 pages |
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| Published: | 09/06/2011 |
| Publisher: | Corsair |
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Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the... Read more
RRP £8.99
£5.39
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New writer of the year
When God Was a Rabbit
by Sarah Winman
| Format: | Paperback 352 pages |
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| Published: | 12/05/2011 |
| Publisher: | Headline Review |
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1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream. The year Eleanor Maud Portman is born. Young... Read more
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Biography of the year
Charles Dickens: A Life - Waterstone's Special Edition
| Format: | Hardback |
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| Published: | 06/10/2011 |
| Publisher: | Viking |
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The Waterstone's exclusive special edition has an appendix not in the ordinary edition consisting of 13 of Dickens's greatest letters.... Read more
RRP £30.00
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Food and Drink book of the year
The Good Cook
| Format: | Hardback 320 pages |
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| Published: | 23/06/2011 |
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
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Simon Hopkinson loves food and he knows how to cook it. "The Good Cook" is the result of over 40 years' experience and is based on... Read more
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Popular fiction book of the year
A Tiny Bit Marvellous
by Dawn French
| Format: | Paperback 432 pages |
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| Published: | 08/01/2011 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
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Everyone hates the perfect family. So you'll love the Battles. Mo is about to hit the big 50, and some uncomfortable truths are becoming quite... Read more
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Children's book of the year
A Monster Calls
| Format: | Hardback 224 pages |
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| Published: | 05/05/2011 |
| Publisher: | Walker Books Ltd |
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This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the... Read more
RRP £12.99
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Audiobook of the year
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
| Format: | Audio CD |
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| Published: | 17/03/2011 |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Ltd |
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Set on the Western Front, in London and in Paris, MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU is a moving and brilliant novel of love, class and sex in wartime,... Read more
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Crime and Thriller book of the year
Before I Go to Sleep
by S. J. Watson
| Format: | Paperback 384 pages |
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| Published: | 02/01/2012 |
| Publisher: | Black Swan |
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Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all... Read more
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