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02/04/2004
Beckham v Burrell in Book of the Year
Soccer icon David Beckham is matched against Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, in the short-list for the coveted Book of the Year category at this year's British Book Awards.
The Book of the Year winner won't be based on sales alone, and the duo will be facing stiff competition from J.K Rowling whose Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, became the fastest selling book of all time when it was published in June last year, selling 1,777,541 copies in its first day.
Booker nominee Monica Ali is also in the running with her debut novel Brick Lane, as is Whitbread winner Mark Haddon, with his first novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Other titles shortlisted for the prestigious Book Of the Year Award are Lynne Truss' surprise Christmas hit Eats, Shoots and Leaves; The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; and Alexander McCall Smith's hugely popular The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
This year's awards sees the introduction of the new Literary Fiction Award, where Monica Ali, who is shortlisted for four 'Nibbies' in all and Mark Haddon who is up for a record five awards meet again, alongside Booker shortlisted Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller, Jonathan Raban's Waxwings, Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved and Martin Amis's critically damned Yellow Dog.
Also in the evenings line-up is the announcement of the winner of the much-hyped Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year. In the ten weeks preceding the awards each of the ten short-listed books have been discussed in the Book Club feature of the Channel 4 show, and so far the majority have shot into the bestseller lists as a result. The TV duo will host the evening in addition to presenting the 'Best Read' prize.
The 15th Annual British Book Awards will take place on the 7th April and will be televised by Channel 4 on Good Friday, the 9th April between 5-6pm to what is expected to be the biggest audience ever to watch a book programme.
The Shortlist
The Butler & Tanner Book of the Year
Brick Lane Monica Ali (Doubleday)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon (David Fickling / Jonathan Cape)
Eats, Shoots and Leaves Lynne Truss (Profile)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J K Rowling (Bloomsbury)
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold (Picador)
My Side David Beckham (CollinsWillow)
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith (Abacus)
A Royal Duty Paul Burrell (Michael Joseph)
The DHL Author of the Year
Harlan Coben (Orion)
Mark Haddon (David Fickling Books / Jonathan Cape)
Alexander McCall Smith (Abacus)
DBC Pierre (Faber & Faber)
Philip Pullman (David Fickling Books & Scholastic)
Jacqueline Wilson (Doubleday)
The Waterstone's Literary Fiction Award
Brick Lane Monica Ali (Doubleday)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon (Jonathan Cape)
Notes on a Scandal Zoe Heller (Viking)
Waxwings Jonathan Raban (Picador)
What I Loved Siri Hustvedt (Sceptre)
Yellow Dog Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape)
The WH Smith Children's Book of the Year
The Amulet of Samarkand Jonathan Stroud (Doubleday)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon (David Fickling Books)
Eagle Strike Anthony Horowitz (Walker Books)
The English Roses Madonna (Puffin)
Goodbye Mog Judith Kerr (Collin's Children's)
Lyra's Oxford Philip Pullman (David Fickling Books)
Shadowmancer Graham Taylor (Faber & Faber)
The Snail and the Whale Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler (Macmillan Children's Books)
The Virgin Books Newcomer of the Year
Monica Ali Brick Lane (Doubleday)
Jon McGregor If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (Bloomsbury)
Clare Morrall Astonishing Splashes of Colour (Tindal Street Press)
DBC Pierre Vernon God Little (Faber & Faber)
Graham Taylor Shadowmancer (Faber & Faber)
Geoffrey Wellum First Light (Penguin)
The Daily Mail Biography of the Year
Captain Scott Ranulph Fiennes (Hodder & Stoughton)
Living History Hillary Clinton (Headline)
Rags To Richie Shane Richie (Contender Books)
Ricky Ricky Tomlinson (Time Warner Books)
Samuel Pepys Claire Tomalin (Penguin)
Toast Nigel Slater (Fourth Estate)
Richard & Judy's Best Read of the Year
The Bookseller of Kabul Åsne Seierstad (Little, Brown)
Brick Lane Monica Ali (Doubleday)
The Know Martina Cole (Headline)
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold (Picador)
Lucia, Lucia Adriana Trigiani (Simon & Schuster)
Notes on a Scandal Zoe Heller (Viking)
Star of the Sea Joseph O'Connor (Secker & Warburg)
Starter For Ten David Nicholls (Flame)
Toast Nigel Slater (Fourth Estate)
White Mughals William Dalrymple (Flamingo)
The Sports Book of the Year
Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football Tom Bower (Simon & Schuster)
Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life Alex Bellos (Bloomsbury)
Martin Johnson, The Autobiography Martin Johnson (Headline)
My Side David Beckham (CollinsWillow)
The Rules of the Game Pierluigi Collina (Macmillan)
Who Ate All the Pies? Mick Quinn (Virgin)
The Borders/Books Etc TV & Film Book of the Year
The First World War Hew Strachan (Simon & Schuster)
The Hours Michael Cunningham (Fourth Estate)
How Clean Is Your House? Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie (Michael Joseph)
In Search of Shakespeare Michael Wood (BBC Books)
Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights: The Scripts, series 1 and 2 Peter Kay (Boxtree)
Property Ladder: Profit from Property Sarah Beeny (Cassell)
The Times History Book of the Year
Empire: How Britain made the Modern World Niall Ferguson (Allen Lane)
Fighter Boys Patrick Bishop (HarperCollins)
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps Anne Applebaum (Allen Lane)
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary Simon Winchester (OUP)
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Empire Tom Holland (Little, Brown)
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Simon Sebag-Montefiore (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
The World Books Illustrated Book of the Year
The Boy Germaine Greer (Thames & Hudson)
Earth from the Air 366 Days Yann Arthus-Bertrand (Thames & Hudson)
England's Thousand Best Houses Simon Jenkins (Allen Lane)
Illustrated London Peter Ackroyd (Chatto & Windus)
Passione: The Cookbook Gennaro Contaldo (Headline)
The Pythons Autobiography The Pythons (Orion)
The SWPA Audiobook of the Year
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon,
narrated by Ben Tibber (Random House Audio)
Forgotten Voices of the Great War Max Arthur, original recordings of WW1 survivors
(Random House Audio)
His Dark Materials Philip Pullman, BBC Radio 4 dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection)
Life on Air David Attenborough, read by the author (BBC Word for Word)
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson, read by the author (Corgi Audio)
Toast Nigel Slater, read by the author (HarperCollins Audio)
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