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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Costa Book Awards (2008-2013)

from Costa Book Awards accessed 1/7/14

The Costa Book Awards honour some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the UK and Ireland. There are five categories - First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book - with one of the five winners chosen as Book of the Year, announced at an awards ceremony in London every January.

Launched in 1971 as the Whitbread Literary Awards, they became the Whitbread Book Awards in 1985, with Costa taking over in 2006.
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From the Telegraph, accessed 1/7/14
Winners have been named in the five Costa Book Awards categories, the Telegraph reported. Each author receives £5,000 (US$8,202) and is now eligible for the £30,000 Costa Book of the Year prize, which will be announced later this month.

2013 Costa category winners are:
Novel: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
First novel: The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
Biography: The Pike by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Poetry: Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts
Children's: Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell
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2011-2012 from Wikipedia.com
2012 Costa Book Awards
First Novel Award — Francesca Segal, The Innocents
Novel Award — Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies dagger
Children's Book Award — Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon
Poetry Award — Kathleen Jamie, The Overhaul
Biography Award — Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
Short Story Award — Avril Joy, "Millie and Bird"

2011 Costa Book Awards
First Novel Award — Christie Watson, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away
Novel Award — Andrew Miller, Pure dagger
Children's Book Award — Moira Young, Blood Red Road
Poetry Award — Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees
Biography Award — Matthew Hollis, Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas
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Category winners for the 2010 Costa Book Awards, which honor books by writers in the U.K. and Ireland, include:

Novel: The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
First novel: Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai
Biography: The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Poetry: Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott --Winner!
Children's book: Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace

2010 Shortlist
Costa First Novel Award
Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai
Coconut Unlimited by Nikesh Shukla
The Temple-Goers by Aatish Taseer
Not Quite White by Simon Thirsk

Costa Novel Award
Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty
The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale
The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

Costa Biography Award
How to Live A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell
My Father's Fortune by Michael Frayn
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal

Costa Poetry Award
Standard Midland by Roy Fisher
The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts

Costa Children's Book Award
Flyaway by Lucy Christopher
Annexed by Sharon Dogar
Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace

2009's shortlisted books
Costa First Novel Award
* The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath
* John the Revelator by Peter Murphy
* Beauty by Raphael Selbourne --Winner!
* The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

Costa Novel Award
* Family Album by Penelope Lively
* Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
* The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson
* Brooklyn by Colm Toibin -- Winner!

Costa Biography Award
* The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo --Winner!
* The Music Room by William Fiennes
* Coda by Simon Gray
* Dancing to the Precipice by Caroline Moorehead

Costa Poetry Award

* Angels Over Elsinore by Clive James
* One Eye'd Leigh by Katharine Kilalea
* Darwin: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel
* A Scattering by Christopher Reid -- Winner, Costa Book of the Year

Costa Children's Award
* Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd
* Troubadour by Mary Hoffman
* The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness --Winner!
* Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera


2008 Costa Shortlist:

Costa First Novel Award
* The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
* The Outcast by Sadie Jones --Winner!
* Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
* Inside the Whale by Jennie Rooney

Costa Children's Award
* Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray
* The Carbon Diaries by Saci Lloyd
* Just Henry by Michelle Magorian --Winner!
* Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine

Costa Biography Award
* Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill --Winner!
* Bloomsbury Ballerina by Judith Mackrell
* If You Don't Know Me By Now: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton by Sathnam Sanghera
* Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager

Costa Novel Award

* The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry --Winner!
* The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
* A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres
* Trauma by Patrick McGrath

Costa Poetry Award

* For All We Know by Ciaran Carson
* The Broken Word by Adam Foulds --Winner!
* Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds
* Salvation Jane by Greta Stoddart

PNBA Book Award Winners (2006-2014)

Since 1965 the PNBA [accessed 1/7/14] has presented annual awards to recognize excellence in writing from the Pacific Northwest. Rather than soliciting nominations for specific categories, we simply require that the author and/or illustrator reside within the PNBA region (Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Montana, Idaho and British Columbia), and that the book be published within the current calendar year. In addition, nominations may be submitted for special awards honoring efforts in publishing, illustration or for a body of work. Special awards are determined at the discretion of PNBA's Awards Committee.

2014 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Winners:

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Viking)
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America by Langdon Cook (Ballantine)
We Live in Water: Stories by Jess Walter (Harper Perennial)
Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems by Robert Wrigley (Penguin Books)
Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey by Emily Winfield Martin (Random House)
The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme by Joe Sacco (Norton)

2013 Winners:
Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie (Grove)
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison (Algonquin Books)
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (Reagan Arthur Books)
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths by Lucia Perillo (Copper Canyon Press)
Wild by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf)
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (Grove)

2012 Winners:
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (Ecco)
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson (Basic Books)
Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon)
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch (Hawthorne Books)
West of Here by Jonathan Evison (Algonquin Books)
Shards by Ismet Prcic (Black Cat)

2011 Winners:
The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel by Brady Udall (Norton)
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes (Atlantic Monthly/El León Literary Arts)
Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
River House: A Memoir by Sarahlee Lawrence (Tin House Books)

2011 Shortlist
The Atlas of Love by Laurie Frankel (St. Martin's)
The Clearing by Heather Davis (Graphia Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
A Common Pornography: A Memoir by Kevin Sampsell (Harper Perennial)
The Fences Between Us by Kirby Larson (Scholastic Press)
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco 
Heartbroke Bay: A Novel by Lynn D'Urso (Berkley)
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride (Holt)
The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground by Jeffrey Ostler (Viking)
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin (Harper Perennial)
The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel by Brady Udall --Winner!
Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year by Robert Michael Pyle (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes  --Winner!
Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr  --Winner!
Nashville Chrome by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
River House: A Memoir by Sarahlee Lawrence  --Winner!
Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty by Craig Welch (Morrow)
Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey by Ana Maria Spagna
What We Are: A Novel by Peter Nathaniel Malae (Grove Press)
Work Song by Ivan Doig (Riverhead)

PNBA 2010 Book Award Winners
Winners of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association's 2010 Book Awards, which were selected from more than 200 nominated titles by Northwest authors and published in 2009, are:

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest by Jack Nisbet
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (Tor)
The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha (Broadway)
All in a Day by Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Nikki McClure

2009 Book Awards:
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award
Selected Poems: 1970-2005 by Floyd Skloot

Lifetime Achievement Award
The Good Dog, Carl series by Alexandra Day

Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957 by Terry Toedtemeier
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella
Dave Boling. Guernica

2008 Award Winners:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's by Lauren Kessler
Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison
The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff

2007 Award Winners
Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets by David Biespiel
Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
God Laughs and Plays by David James Duncan
Gemini Summer by Iain Lawrence
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

2006 Award Winners:
Six titles have won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association's 40th annual Book Awards, which recognize "exceptional books written by Northwest authors." The association's award committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska selected the titles. The winners will be celebrated at a banquet Friday, March 17, at the PNBA's spring trade show in Seattle.

The Language of Baklava: A Memoir by Diana Abu-Jaber of Portland, Ore., and Miami, Fla.
Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone by John Daniel of Elmira, Ore.
The Highest Tide: A Novel by Jim Lynch of Olympia, Wash.
How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets by Garth Stein of Seattle, Wash.
William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award: Approximately Paradise by Floyd Skloot of Amity, Ore.

Children's Book Award: Hotel Deep: Light Verse from Dark Water by Kurt Cyrus of Eugene, Ore.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Dayne Ogilvie Prize 2007-2013

from wikipedia accessed 7/6/13

The Dayne Ogilvie Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an emerging Canadian writer who is part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. The award was originally established as the Dayne Ogilvie Grant in memory of Dayne Ogilvie, a book editor, writer, arts manager and former managing editor of Xtra! who died in October 2006, by artist Robin Pacific, and was renamed from a grant to a prize in 2012.
Established in 2007, the CAD4,000 prize is presented for the writer's body of work. It is the only prize of its kind in Canada serving the LGBT community; any self-identifying writer is eligible. To qualify, writers must have published at least one book of fiction or poetry. The winner is selected by an independent jury of three members, and presented annually during Toronto's Pride Week celebrations.
In addition to the primary winner, the award also frequently presents an Honour of Distinction worth CAD500 to one or CAD250 to two additional writers. Authors who are awarded the Honour of Distinction remain eligible for the primary award in future years.

2007 Michael V. Smith
2008 Zoe Whittall Brian Francis, John Miller
2009 Debra Anderson Greg Kearney
2010 Nancy Jo Cullen Lisa Foad, George K. Ilsley
2011 Farzana Doctor Dani Couture, Matthew J. Trafford
2012 Amber Dawn Mariko Tamaki
2013 C. E. Gatchalian Anand Mahadevan, Barry Webster

Alan Paton Award 1989-2013

from wikipedia accessed 7/6/13

The Alan Paton Award is a South African literary award that been conferred annually since 1989 for meritorious works of non-fiction. Sponsored by the Johannesburg weekly the Sunday Times, recipients represent the cream of contemporary South African writers who produce works that are judged to demonstrate: compassion; elegance of writing; illumination of truthfulness, especially those forms of it which are new, delicate, unfashionable and fly in the face of power; and, intellectual and moral integrity. The award is named for Alan Paton, author of Cry, The Beloved Country. The award is given in conjunction with The Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Together the two prizes are jointly called The Sunday Times Literary Awards.
Recipients

2013 – Redi Tlhabi for Endings and Beginnings
2012 – Hugh Lewin for Stones against the Mirror
2011 – Ronnie Kasrils for The Unlikely Secret Agent
2010 – Albie Sachs for The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
2009 – Peter Harris for In a Different Time
2008 – Mark Gevisser for Thabo Mbeki - The Dream Deferred
2007 – Ivan Vladislavic for Portrait with Keys
2006 – Jointly awarded to Edwin Cameron for Witness to AIDS & Adam Levin for AidSafari
2005 – Jonny Steinberg for The Number
2004 – Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela for A Human Being Died That Night
2003 – Jonny Steinberg for Midlands
2002 – Jonathan Kaplan for The Dressing Station
2001 – Henk van Woerden for A Mouthful of Glass
2000 – Anthony Sampson for Mandela: The Authorised Biography
1999 – Jointly awarded to Antjie Krog for Country of My Skull & Stephen Clingman for Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary
1998 – John Reader for Africa: A Biography of a Continent
1997 – Charles van Onselen for The Seed is Mine
1996 – Margaret McCord for The Calling of Katie Makanya
1995 – Nelson Mandela for Long Walk to Freedom
1994 – Breyten Breytenbach for Return to Paradise
1993 – Tim Couzens for Tramp Royal
1992 – Thomas Pakenham for Scramble for Africa
1991 – Albie Sachs for Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
1990 – Jeff Peires for The Dead Will Arise
1989 – Marq de Villiers for White Tribe Dreaming

Theakstons prize (2010)

From Theakstons 2013 and wikipedia accessed 7/6/13

Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year

2013 Shortlist
Rush of Blood- Mark Billingham
Safe House- Chris Ewan
The Lewis Man- Peter May
Gods and Beasts- Denise Mina
Stolen Souls- Stuart Neville
A Dark Redemption- Stav Sherez

The 2010 longlist:
* In the Dark by Mark Billingham
* If It Bleeds by Duncan Campbell
* The Surrogate by Tania Carver
* The Business by Martina Cole
* A Simple Act of Violence by R.J. Ellory --Winner!
* Until It's Over by Nicci French
* The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
* Cold in Hand by John Harvey
* Skin by Mo Hayder
* Vows of Silence by Susan Hill
* The Dying Breed by Declan Hughes
* Dead Tomorrow by Peter James
* Target by Simon Kernick
* A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
* Gallows Lane by Brian McGilloway
* Geezer Girls by Dreda Say Mitchell
* Singing to the Dead by Caro Ramsay
* Doors Open by Ian Rankin
* All The Colours of Darkness by Peter Robinson
* Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

Other years:
2005
Mark Billingham – Lazybones
Simon Kernick – The Murder Exchange
Val McDermid – The Distant Echo
Ian Rankin – A Question of Blood
Andrew Taylor – The American Boy
Minette Walters – Disordered Minds

2006
Val McDermid – The Torment of Others
Lindsay Ashford – Strange Blood
Stephn Booth – One Last Breath
Martin Edwards – The Coffin Trail
Susan Hill – The Various Haunts of Men
Ian Rankin – Fleshmarket Close

2007
Allan Guthrie – Two-Way Split
Stephen Booth – The Dead Place
Christopher Brookmyre – All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye
Michael Jecks – The Deathship of Dartmouth
Stuart MacBride – Cold Granite
Graham Hurley – Blood and Honey

2008
Stef Penney – The Tenderness of Wolves

2009
Mark Billingham – Death Message
A Cure For All Diseases Reginald Hill
Bad Luck And Trouble - Lee Child
Beneath The Bleeding - Val McDermid
Broken Skin Stuart MacBride
Dead Man’s Footsteps - Peter James
Exit Music - Ian Rankin
Friend Of The Devil Peter Robinson
Garden Of Evil - David Hewson
Gone To Ground - John Harvey
Ritual - Mo Hayder
Savage Moon - Chris Simms
The Accident Man - Tom Cain
The Colour Of Blood - Declan Hughes

2010
R J Ellory – A Simple Act of Violence

2011
Lee Child – 61 Hours

2012
Denise Mina - The End of the Wasp Season

Carnegie Medal for Children's Literature (1936-2013)

Historical information from Wikipedia, accessed 7/6/13

The Carnegie Medal in Literature was established in the UK in 1936 in honour of Scottish philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It is awarded to an outstanding book for children and young adult readers. Nominated books must be written in English and should first have been published in the UK during the year before. The Carnegie judging panel consists of 13 children's librarians from the Youth Libraries Group of Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Nominated books are also read by students from many schools who send feedback to the judging panel. CILIP also recognizes excellence in illustration, with the Kate Greenaway Medal.
The award is announced in the June following the year of publication. The winner receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a public or school library.
The original rules stated that an author could only win the Medal once. This rule was later changed to enable subsequent work by the same author to be included for consideration.

2013 Sally Gardner Maggot Moon
2012 Patrick Ness illustrated by Jim Kay A Monster Calls Walker Books
2011 Patrick Ness Monsters of Men

2010 Award
Eight titles have made the shortlist for Britain's 2010 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Carnegie Medal for children's writing:

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman -- Winner!
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant
Rowan the Strange by Julie Hearn
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick

2009 Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child
2008 Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur, Scholastic
2007 Meg Rosoff, Just in Case, Penguin
2005 Mal Peet, Tamar
2004 Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions, Macmillan
2003 Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light, Bloomsbury
2002 Sharon Creech, Ruby Holler
2001 Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Doubleday
2000 Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth, Puffin
1999 Aidan Chambers, Postcards from No Man's Land, Bodley Head Children's Books
1998 David Almond, Skellig, Hodder
1997 Tim Bowler, River Boy, OUP
1996 Melvin Burgess, Junk, Andersen Press
1995 Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials: Book 1 Northern Lights
1994 Theresa Breslin, Whispers in the Graveyard, Methuen
1993 Robert Swindells, Stone Cold, H Hamilton
1992 Anne Fine, Flour Babies, H Hamilton
1991 Berlie Doherty, Dear Nobody, H Hamilton
1990 Gillian Cross, Wolf, OUP
1989 Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes
1988 Geraldine McCaughrean, A Pack of Lies, OUP
1987 Susan Price, The Ghost Drum, Faber
1986 Berlie Doherty, Granny Was a Buffer Girl, Methuen
1985 Kevin Crossley-Holland, Storm, Heinemann
1984 Margaret Mahy, The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance,
1983 Jan Mark, Handles, Kestrel
1982 Margaret Mahy, The Haunting
1981 Robert Westall, The Scarecrows, Chatto & Windus
1980 Peter Dickinson, City of Gold, Gollancz
1979 Peter Dickinson, Tulku, Gollancz
1978 David Rees, The Exeter Blitz, H Hamilton
1977 Gene Kemp, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, Faber
1976 Jan Mark, Thunder and Lightnings, Kestrel
1975 Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners, Macmillan
1974 Mollie Hunter, The Stronghold, H Hamilton
1973 Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, Heinemann
1972 Richard Adams, Watership Down, Rex Collings
1971 Ivan Southall, Josh, Angus & Robertson
1970 Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen, illustrated by Charles Keeping, The God Beneath the Sea,
1969 K. M. Peyton, The Edge of the Cloud, OUP
1968 Rosemary Harris, The Moon in the Cloud, Faber
1967 Alan Garner, The Owl Service, Collins
1966 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1965 Philip Turner, The Grange at High Force, OUP
1964 Sheena Porter, Nordy Bank, OUP
1963 Hester Burton, Time of Trial, OUP
1962 Pauline Clarke, The Twelve and the Genii, Faber
1961 Lucy M. Boston, A Stranger at Green Knowe
1960 Dr Ian Wolfram Cornwall, The Making of Man, Phoenix House
1959 Rosemary Sutcliff, The Lantern Bearers, OUP
1958 Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden
1957 William Mayne, A Grass Rope, OUP
1956 C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, Bodley Head
1955 Eleanor Farjeon, The Little Bookroom, OUP
1954 Ronald Welch, Knight Crusader, OUP
1953 Edward Osmond, A Valley Grows Up
1952 Mary Norton, The Borrowers
1951 Cynthia Harnett, The Wool-Pack, Methuen
1950 Elfrida Vipont, The Lark on the Wing, OUP
1949 Agnes Allen, The Story of Your Home, Faber
1948 Richard Armstrong, Sea Change, Dent
1947 Walter de la Mare, Collected Stories for Children
1946 Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse, University of London Press
1945 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1944 Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon, Macmillan
1943 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1942 'B.B.', The Little Grey Men, Eyre & Spottiswoode
1941 Mary Treadgold, We Couldn't Leave Dinah, Cape
1940 Kitty Barne, Visitors from London, Dent
1939 Eleanor Doorly, The Radium Woman, Heinemann
1938 Noel Streatfeild, The Circus is Coming, Dent
1937 Eve Garnett, The Family from One End Street, Muller
1936 Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post, Cape

Shortlists
Note: Since 2007 the year relates to when the medal was awarded. Previously the year refers to the publication date of the books.

2009
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Cosmic
Kevin Brooks, Black Rabbit Summer, Puffin
Eoin Colfer, Airman, Puffin
Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child
Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys
Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Walker
Kate Thompson, Creature of the Night, Bodley Head
2008
Kevin Crossley-Holland, Gatty's Tale, Orion
Linzi Glass, Ruby Red, Penguin
Elizabeth Laird, Crusade, Macmillan
Tanya Landman, Apache: Girl Warrior
Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur, Scholastic
Meg Rosoff, What I Was, Penguin
Jenny Valentine, Finding Violet Park
2007
Kevin Brooks, The Road of the Dead, The Chicken House
Siobhan Dowd, A Swift Pure Cry
Anne Fine, The Road of Bones, Doubleday
Ally Kennen, Beast, Marion Lloyd Books
Meg Rosoff, Just in Case, Penguin
Marcus Sedgwick, My Swordhand is Singing, Orion
2005
David Almond, Clay, Hodder Children's Books
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Framed
Jan Mark, Turbulence, Hodder Children's Books
Geraldine McCaughrean, The White Darkness, Oxford University Press
Mal Peet, Tamar
2004
Anne Cassidy, Looking for JJ, Scholastic Children's Books
Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Does My Shirts
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions, Macmillan
Sharon Creech, Heartbeat
Eva Ibbotson, The Star of Kazan, Macmillan
Philip Pullman, The Scarecrow and his Servant, Doubleday
2003
David Almond, The Fire Eaters, Hodder Children's Books
Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light, Bloomsbury
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, David Fickling Books
Elizabeth Laird, The Garbage King, Macmillan
Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful, Collins
Linda Newbery, Sisterland, David Fickling Books
2002
Kevin Brooks, Martyn Pig, The Chicken House
Sharon Creech, Ruby Holler
Anne Fine, Up On Cloud Nine, Corgi Books
Alan Gibbons, The Edge, Dolphin Paperbacks
Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor, Macmillan Children's Books
Linda Newbery, The Shell House, David Fickling Books
Marcus Sedgwick, The Dark Horse, Dolphin Paperbacks
2001
Sharon Creech, Love that Dog
Peter Dickinson, The Ropemaker, Macmillan Children's Books
Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea, Macmillan Children's Books
Elizabeth Laird, Jake's Tower, Macmillan Children's Books
Geraldine McCaughrean, The Kite Rider, Oxford University Press
Geraldine McCaughrean, Stop the Train, Oxford University Press
Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Doubleday
2000
David Almond, Heaven Eyes, Hodder Children's Books
Melvin Burgess, The Ghost Behind the Wall, Andersen Press
Sharon Creech, The Wanderer, Macmillan Children's Books
Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy, Mammoth
Adéle Geras, Troy, Scholastic David Fickling Books
Alan Gibbons, Shadow of the Minotaur, Orion
Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth, Puffin Books
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
1999
David Almond, Kit's Wilderness, Hodder Children's Books
Bernard Ashley, Little Soldier, Orchard Books
Aidan Chambers, Postcards from No Man's Land, Bodley Head Children's Books
Susan Cooper, King of Shadows, Bodley Head Children's Books
Gillian Cross, Tightrope, Oxford University Press
Jenny Nimmo, The Rinaldi Ring, Mammoth
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Bloomsbury Children's Books
Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum, Doubleday
1998
David Almond, Skellig
Robert Cormier, Heroes
Peter Dickinson, The Kin
Chris d'Lacey, Fly, Cherokee, Fly
Susan Price, The Sterkarm Handshake
1997
Malorie Blackman, Pig-heart Boy
Henrietta Branford, Fire, Bed and Bone
Tim Bowler, River Boy
Geraldine McCaughrean, Forever X
Philip Ridley, Scribbleboy
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Theresa Tomlinson, Meet me by the Steel Men
1996
Melvin Burgess, Junk
Michael Coleman, Weirdo's War
Anne Fine, The Tulip Touch
Elizabeth Laird, Secret Friends
Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Bomb
Philip Pullman, Clockwork
Chloe Rayban, Love in Cyberia
Jacqueline Wilson, Bad Girls
1995
Susan Gates, Raider
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials: Book 1 Northern Lights
Jacqueline Wilson, Double Act
1994
Lynne Reid Banks, Broken Bridge
Theresa Breslin, Whispers in the Graveyard
Berlie Doherty, Willa and Old Miss Annie
Lesley Howarth, Maphead
Michael Morpurgo, Arthur, High King of Britain
Jenny Nimmo, Griffin's Castle
Robert Westall, A Time of Fire
Jacqueline Wilson, The Bed and Breakfast Star
1993
Melvin Burgess, The Baby and Fly Pie
Anne Merrick, Someone Came Knocking
Jenny Nimmo, The Stone Mouse
Robert Swindells, Stone Cold

Nominations
Note: Since 2007 the year relates to when the medal was awarded. Previously the year refers to the publication date of the books.
2010
John Agard, The Young Inferno, Frances Lincoln
Alison Allen-Gray, Lifegame, Oxford University Press
David Almond, Jackdaw Summer, Hodder
Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains
R. J. Anderson, Knife, Orchard
Bernard Ashley, Solitaire, Usborne
Tim Bowler, Bloodchild, Oxford University Press
Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Lexicon, Simon & Schuster
Kevin Brooks, Killing God, Puffin
Melvin Burgess, Nicholas Dane, Andersen Press
Elen Caldecott, How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant, Bloomsbury
Anne Cassidy, The Dead House, Hodder
Henry Chancellor, The Remarkable Adventures of Tom Scatterhorn: The Museum's Secret, Oxford University Press
Lucy Christopher, Stolen, Chicken House
Sharon Creech, Hate That Cat, Bloomsbury
Kevin Crossley-Holland, Waterslain Angels, Orion
Sharon Dogar, Falling, Chicken House
Julia Donaldson, Running on the Cracks, Egmont
Siobhan Dowd, Solace of the Road
Paul Dowswell, Auslander, Bloomsbury
Daniel Finn, Two Good Thieves, Macmillan
Pauline Fisk, Flying for Frankie, Faber
Gayle Forman, If I Stay, Doubleday
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Julia Golding, Wolf Cry, Oxfors University Press
Helen Grant, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, Puffin
Frances Hardinge, Gullstruck Island, Macmillan
Julie Hearn, Rowan the Strange, Oxford University Press
F. E. Higgins, The Eyeball Collector, Macmillan
Mary Hoffman, Troubadour, Bloomsbury
Ally Kennen, Bedlam, Marion Lloyd Books
Suzanne LaFleur, Love, Aubrey, Puffin
Elizabeth Laird, The Witching Hour, Macmillan
Mick Manning, & Brita Granstrom, Tail-End Charlie, Frances Lincoln
Robert Muchamore, Brigands M.C., Hodder
Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer, Walker
Linda Newbery, The Sandfather, Orion
James Patterson, Max, Doubleday
Mal Peet, Exposure, Walker
Anna Perera, Guantanamo Boy, Puffin
Gillian Philip, Crossing the Line, Bloomsbury
Terry Pratchett, Nation
Bali Rai, City of Ghosts, Doubleday
Philip Reeve, Fever Crumb
James Riordan, The Sniper, Frances Lincoln
Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian
Marcus Sedgwick, The Kiss of Death, Orion
Marcus Sedgwick, Revolver, Orion
Lazlo Strangolov, Feather and Bone,Walker
Jonathan Stroud, Heroes of the Valley
Jenny Valentine, The Ant Colony
Rachel Ward, Numbers, Chicken House
David Whitley, The Midnight Charter, Puffin
Leslie Wilson, Saving Rafael, Andersen
2009
David Almond, My Dad's a Birdman, Walker
David Almond, The Savage, Walker
Malorie Blackman, The Stuff of Nightmares, Doubleday
Michael Bond, Paddington Here and Now, Harper Collins
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Cosmic
Chris Bradford, Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior, Puffin
Theresa Breslin, The Nostradamus Prophecy, Doubleday
Kevin Brooks, Black Rabbit Summer, Puffin
N. M. Browne, Shadow Web, Bloomsbury
Linda Buckley-Archer, The Tar Man, Simon & Schuster
Emma Clayton, The Roar, Chicken House
Eoin Colfer, Airman, Puffin
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox, Puffin
B.R. Collins, The Traitor Game, Bloomsbury
Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child
Nancy Farmer, The Land of the Silver Apples
Mary Finn, Anila's Journey, Walker
Sally Gardner, The Red Necklace, Orion
Jamila Gavin, The Robber Baron's Daughter, Egmont
Julia Golding, Empty Quarter, Egmont
Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys
Mary Hoffman, Stravaganza: City of Secrets, Bloomsbury
Mary Hooper, Newes from the Dead, Bodley Head
Anthony Horowitz, Snakehead, Walker
Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool, Macmillan
Elizabeth Laird, Lost Riders, Macmillan
Tanya Landman, The Goldsmith's Daughter, Walker
Ingrid Lee, Dog Lost, Chicken House
Geraldine McCaughrean, Tamburlaine's Elephants, Usborne
Anthony McGowan, The Knife That Killed Me, Definitions
Sophie McKenzie, Blood Ties, Simon & Schuster
Michelle Magorian, Just Henry, Egmont
Gemma Malley, The Declaration, Bloomsbury
Katy Moran, Bloodline, Walker
Robert Muchamore, CHERUB: The Sleepwalker, Hodder
Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Walker
Sally Nicholls, Ways to Live Forever, Marion Lloyd Books
Joanne Owen, Puppet Master, Orion
Chris Priestley, Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror, Bloomsbury
Philip Pullman, Once Upon a Time in the North, David Fickling Books
Celia Rees, Sovay, Bloomsbury
Gareth Thompson, Sunshine to the Sunless, Definitions
Kate Thompson, Creature of the Night, Bodley Head
Jenny Valentine, Broken Soup
2008
Allan Ahlberg, The Boyhood of Burglar Bill, Puffin
Julie Bertagna, Zenith, Young Picador
Beverley Birch, Rift, Egmont
Tim Bowler, Frozen Fire, OUP
Kevin Brooks, Being, Puffin
Eoin Colfer, The Legend of the Worst Boy in the World, Puffin
Kevin Crossley-Holland, Gatty's Tale, Orion
Sharon Dogar, Waves, Chicken House
Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery
Jenny Downham, Before I Die, David Fickling
Carol Ann Duffy, The Hat, Faber
Catherine Fisher, Incarceron
Charlie Fletcher, Stoneheart, Hodder
David Gilman, The Devil's Breath, Puffin
Linzi Glass, Ruby Red, Penguin
Matt Haig, Shadow Forest, Bodley Head
Frances Hardinge, Verdigris Deep, Macmillan
Mary Hooper, The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose, Bloomsbury
Diana Wynne Jones, The Pinhoe Egg, HarperCollins
Ally Kennen, Berserk, Marion Lloyd Books
Alice Kuipers, Life on the Refrigerator Door, Macmillan
Elizabeth Laird, Crusade, Macmillan
Tanya Landman, Apache: Girl Warrior
Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant, HarperCollins
Tim Lott, Fearless, Walker Books
Geraldine McCaughrean, Peter Pan in Scarlet, OUP
Sophie McKenzie, Girl, Missing, Simon & Schuster
Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea, HarperCollins
Michelle Paver, Soul Eater, Orion
Mal Peet, The Penalty, Walker Books
Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith, Doubleday
Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur, Scholastic
Chris Riddell, Ottoline and the Yellow Cat, Macmillan
Katherine Roberts, I am the Great Horse, Chicken House
Mark Robson, Imperial Assassin, Simon & Schuster
Meg Rosoff, What I Was, Puffin
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Bloomsbury
Lauren St. John, Dolphin Song, Orion
Marcus Sedgwick, Blood Red, Snow White, Orion
Sarah Singleton, Sacrifice, Simon & Schuster
Tabitha Suzuma, From Where I Stand, Bodley Head
Kate Thompson, The Last of the High Kings, Bodley Head
Jenny Valentine, Finding Violet Park
Jeanne Willis, Shamanka, Walker Books
Sarah Wray, The Forbidden Room, Faber
2007
Rachel Anderson, Red Moon, Hodder Children's Books
John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Theresa Breslin, The Medici Seal, Doubleday
Kevin Brooks, The Road of the Dead, The Chicken House
Linda Buckley-Archer, Gideon the Cutpurse
Melvin Burgess, Sara's Face, Andersen Press
Anne Cassidy, The Story of My Life, Scholastic
Eoin Colfer, Half Moon Investigations, Puffin
Susan Cooper, Victory, Bodley Head
Siobhan Dowd, A Swift Pure Cry
Helen Dunmore, The Tide Knot, HarperCollins
Anne Fine, The Road of Bones, Doubleday
Linzi Glass, The Year the Gypsies Came, Penguin
Julia Golding, Secret of the Sirens, Oxford University Press
Julie Hearn, Ivy, Oxford University Press
Charlie Higson, Blood Fever, Puffin
Graham Joyce, Do the Creepy Thing, Faber & Faber
Ally Kennen, Beast, Marion Lloyd Books
Geraldine McCaughrean, Cyrano, Oxford University Press
Paul Magrs, Exchange, Simon & Schuster
Graham Marks, Tokyo, Bloomsbury
Sue Mayfield, Damage, Hodder Children's Books
P R Morrison, The Wind Tamer, Bloomsbury
Linda Newbery, Set in Stone, David Fickling
Meg Rosoff, Just in Case, Penguin
Laura Ruby, The Wall and the Wing, HarperCollins
Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson, Chew on This, Penguin
Marcus Sedgwick, My Swordhand is Singing, Orion
Alex Shearer, Tins, Macmillan
Paul Stewart, Hugo Pepper, Doubleday
Kate Thompson, The Fourth Horseman, Bodley Head
Theresa Tomlinson, Wolf Girl, Corgi
Ann Turnbull, Forged in the Fire, Walker
Catherine Webb, The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle, Atom
Jeanne Willis, Mayfly Day, Andersen Press
Jeanette Winterson, Tanglewreck, Bloomsbury
Chris Wooding, Storm Thief, Scholastic
2005
David Almond, Clay, Hodder Children's Books
Steve Augarde, Celandine, David Fickling Books
Malorie Blackman, Checkmate, Doubleday
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Framed
Theresa Breslin, Divided City, Doubleday
Kevin Brooks, Candy, The Chicken House
Anne Cassidy, Birthday Blues, Scholastic
Chiara Cervasio & Sarah Marshall (editors), Dis N Dat, Poetry Now
Aidan Chambers, This Is All, Bodley Head Children's Books
Pauline Chandler, Warrior Girl, Oxford University Press
Julia Clarke, The Other Alice, Oxford University Press
Carol Ann Duffy, Another Night Before Christmas, John Murray
Helen Dunmore, Ingo, Harper Collins Children's Books
Catherine Fisher, Darkhenge, Bodley Head Children's Books
Catherine Forde, The Drowning Pond, Egmont
Sally Gardner, I, Coriander, Orion Children's Books
Adele Geras, Ithaka, David Fickling Books
Keith Gray, The Fearful, Bodley Head Children's Books
Julie Hearn, The Merrybegot, Oxford University Press
Stuart Hill, The Cry of the Icemark, The Chicken House
Nigel Hinton, Time Bomb, Puffin Books
Anthony Horowitz, Ark Angel, Walker Books
Diana Wynne Jones, Conrad's Fate, Harper Collins Children's Books
Graham Joyce, TWOC, Faber and Faber
Brian Keaney, Jacob's Ladder, Orchard Books
Catherine MacPhail, Roxy's Baby, Bloomsbury
Jan Mark, Riding Tycho, Macmillan Children's Books
Jan Mark, Turbulence, Hodder Children's Books
Geraldine McCaughrean, The White Darkness, Oxford University Press
Michael Morpurgo, The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, Harper Collins Children's Books
William Nicholson, Seeker, Egmont
Kenneth Oppel, Skybreaker, Hodder Children's Books
Michelle Paver, Spirit Walker, Orion Children's Books
Mal Peet, Tamar
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Bloomsbury
S. F. Said, The Outlaw Varjak Paw, David Fickling
Marcus Sedgwick, The Foreshadowing, Orion Children's Books
Nicky Singer, The Innocent's Story, Oxford University Press
Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate, Doubleday
Kate Thompson, The New Policeman
Sandi Toksvig, Hitler's Canary, Doubleday
Karen Wallace, The Unrivalled Spangles, Simon and Schuster
Jacqueline Wilson, Love Lessons, Doubleday
Rick Yancey, The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, Bloomsbury
Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere, Bloomsbury
2004
Alison Allen-Gray, Unique, Oxford University Press
Lynne Reid Banks, Tiger, Tiger, HarperCollins
Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, Egmont
Malorie Blackman, Cloud Busting, Doubleday
Malorie Blackman, Knife Edge, Doubleday
Tim Bowler, Apocalypse, Oxford University Press
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions, Macmillan
Theresa Breslin, Saskia's Journey, Doubleday
Kevin Brooks, Kissing the Rain, Chicken House
N. M. Browne, Basilisk, Bloomsbury
Anne Cassidy, Looking for JJ, Scholastic Children's Books
Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Does My Shirts
Sharon Creech, Heartbeat, Bloomsbury
Anna Dale, Whispering to Witches, Bloomsbury
Peter Dickinson, The Gift Boat, Macmillan
Chris d'Lacey, Horace, Corgi Yearling
Catherine Forde, Skarrs, Egmont
Alan Gibbons, The Defender, Orion Children's Books
Alan Gibbons, The Lost Boys' Appreciation Society, Orion Children's Books
Sally Grindley, Spilled Water, Bloomsbury
Lian Hearn, Brilliance of the Moon, Macmillan
Mary Hooper, Petals in the Ashes, Bloomsbury
Eva Ibbotson, The Star of Kazan, Macmillan
Julia Jarman, Peace Weavers, Andersen Press
Dick King-Smith, Just Binnie, Puffin Books
Elizabeth Laird, Paradise End, Macmillan
Sue Limb, Girl, 15, Charming But Insane, Bloomsbury
Catherine MacPhail, Catch Us If You Can, Puffin Books
Catherine MacPhail, Underworld, Bloomsbury
Geraldine McCaughrean, Not the End of the World, Oxford University Press
Geraldine McCaughrean, Smile!, Oxford University Press
Jan Mark, Useful Idiots, David Fickling Books
Beverley Naidoo, Web of Lies, Puffin Books
Linda Newbery, At the Firefly Gate, Orion Children's Books
Kenneth Oppel, Airborn, Hodder Children's Books
Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother, Orion Children's Books
Philippa Pearce, The Little Gentleman, Puffin Books
Andrew Fusek Peters & Polly Peters, Crash, Hodder Children's Books
Philip Pullman, The Scarecrow and his Servant, Doubleday
Bali Rai, Rani and Sukh, Corgi Books
Gwyneth Rees, My Mum's from Planet Pluto, Macmillan
Michael Rosen, Sad Book, Walker Books
Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now, Penguin Books
Paul Shipton, The Pig Scrolls, Puffin Books
Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye
Robert Swindells, Ruby Tanya, Doubleday
Catherine Webb, Timekeepers, Atom
Jeanne Willis, Dumb Creatures, Macmillan
Jacqueline Wilson, Best Friends, Doubleday
2003
David Almond, The Fire-Eaters, Hodder Children's Books
Steve Augarde, The Various, David Fickling
Julia Bertagna, The Opposite of Chocolate, Macmillan/Young Picador
Kevin Brooks, Lucas, The Chicken House
Kevin Crossley-Holland, King of the Middle March, Orion Children's Books
Peter Dickinson, Tears of the Salamander, Macmillan Children's Books
Berlie Doherty, Deep Secret, Puffin Books
Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light, Bloomsbury
Anne Fine, The More the Merrier, Doubleday
Jamila Gavin, The Blood Stone, Egmont Books
Alan Gibbons, Caught in the Crossfire, Orion Children's books
Keith Gray, Malarkey, Red Fox
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, David Fickling Books
Julie Hearn, Follow Me Down, Oxford University Press
Lian Hearn, Grass for His Pillow, Macmillan
Anthony Horowitz, Eagle Strike, Walker
Elizabeth Laird, The Garbage King, Macmillan
Elizabeth Laird & Sonia Nimr, A Little Piece of Ground, Macmillan Children's Books
Joan Lingard, Tell the Moon to Come Out, Puffin
Jan Mark, Something in the Air, Doubleday
L. S. Mathews, Fish, Hodder
Sue Mayfield, Voices, Hodder and Stoughton
Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful, Collins
Linda Newbery, Sisterland, David Fickling Books
C. Z. Nightingale, Grass, Puffin Books
Mal Peet, Keeper, Walker Books
Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
Susan Price, A Sterkarm Kiss, Scholastic Press
Philip Pullman, Lyra's Oxford, David Fickling Books
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Bloomsbury
Celia Rees, Pirates!, Bloomsbury
Philip Reeve, Predator's Gold, Scholastic Press
Marcus Sedgwick, The Book of Dead Days, Orion Children's Books
Alex Shearer, The Speed of the Dark, Macmillan Children's Books
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell, Muddle Earth, Macmillan Children's Books
Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand
G. P. Taylor, Shadowmancer, Faber Children's Books
subsequently found to be ineligible - first published before 2003[5]
Eleanor Updale, Montmorency, Scholastic Press
Chris Wooding, Poison, Scholastic Press
2002
Allan Ahlberg, The Improbable Cat, Puffin
Julia Bell, Massive, Pan Macmillan
Julie Bertagna, Exodus, MacMillan
Tim Bowler, Starseeker, Oxford University Press
Theresa Breslin, Remembrance, Doubleday
Kevin Brooks, Martyn Pig, The Chicken House
Lauren Child, Utterly Me, Clarice Bean, Orchard
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, Viking
Sharon Creech, Ruby Holler
Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion, Simon & Schuster
Anne Fine, Up On Cloud Nine, Corgi Books
Catherine Fisher, Corbenic, Red Fox
Neil Gaiman, Coraline, Bloomsbury
Alan Gibbons, The Edge, Dolphin Paperbacks
Morris Gleitzman, Boy Overboard, Viking
Keith Gray, Warehouse, Random House
Philip Gross, Going for Stone, Oxford University Press
Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor, Macmillan Children's Books
Mary Hoffman, Stravaganza: City of Masks, Bloomsbury
Anthony Horowitz, Skeleton Key, Walker Books
Lesley Howarth, Carwash, Puffin
Julia Jarman, Ghost Writer, Andersen Press
Ben Jeaps, The Xenocide Mission, David Fickling
Jackie Kay, Straw Girl, Macmillan
Catherine MacPhail, Dark Waters, Bloomsbury
Margaret Mahy, Alchemy, HarperCollins
Lynne Markham, Blazing Star, Egmont Books
Paul May, Green Fingers, Corgi Yearling
Linda Newbery, The Shell House, David Fickling Books
William Nicholson, Firesong, Egmont Children's Books
Maggie Pearson, Shadow of the Beast, Hodder
Susan Price, The King's Head, Scholastic
Maggie Prince, Raider's Tide, Collins
Philip Ridley, Mighty Fizz Chilla, Puffin
Marcus Sedgwick, The Dark Horse, Dolphin Paperbacks
Nicky Singer, Feather Boy, Collins
Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy, Egmont
Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator, Egmont
Jacqueline Wilson, Secrets, Random House

Desmond Elliott Prize 2008-2013

from Desmond Elliott Prize and wikipedia, accessed 7/5/2013

The Desmond Elliott Prize is an annual award for the best debut novel written in English and published in the UK. The winning novel can be from any genre of fiction and must exhibit depth and breadth with a compelling narrative. The winner receives GB£10,000. The prize is named in honour of the "distinguished" late publisher and literary agent, Desmond Elliott.

Winners and shortlists

2008 Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith 
Sunday at The Cross Bones by John Walsh (Fourth Estate))

2009 Blackmoor by Edward Hogan (Simon & Schuster)
A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi (Fourth Estate)
The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn (Jonathan Cape)

2010 The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw (Atlantic Books)
Before the Earthquake by Maria Allen (Tindal Street Press)
Talk of the Town by Jacob Polley (Picador

2011 Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph (Fourth Estate)
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman (Bloomsbury Publishing)

2012 The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen (Chatto & Windus)
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness (Seren)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Doubleday)

2013 The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence