Galaxy National Book Awards 2010
the Oscars of the book world

How To Be A Woman is voted Galaxy Book of the Year

The winner of the Galaxy Book of the Year Award 2011 is The Times columnist Caitlin Moran for her irreverent take on modern feminism, How To Be A Woman. She was the overall winner of the public vote which comprised winners of all eleven categories from the Galaxy National Book Awards. Read more...

Win 8 iPads for your reading group

To celebrate all the great crime and thriller novels in this year’s Galaxy National Book Awards, Reading Groups for Everyone has teamed up with the Galaxy National Book Awards to offer reading groups a fantastic opportunity to win 8 iPads. To enter your group will need to make a video review of a crime and thriller novel from the shortlist for this year’s Galaxy National Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the Year. See the Reading Groups for Everyone website for details:

www.readinggroups.org/galaxynationalbookawards

London, Friday 4th November

Some of the very finest British authors and heads of UK publishing houses gathered at the Mandarin Oriental in Knightsbridge tonight to celebrate the winners of this year’s Galaxy National Book Awards. Read More...

Among the Award winners ...

Dawn French debut novel scores massive fiction hit at the Galaxy National Book Awards 2011 while Queen of celebrity scandal Jackie Collins is recognised for Outstanding Achievement. Read More...

No Stranger to Success

Alan Hollinghurst wins the Waterstone’s UK Author of the Year Award for The Stranger’s Child, staving off fierce competition from Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and this year’s Booker winner, Julian Barnes. Read More...

Outstanding achievement

In a writing career spanning over four decades, this year’s Outstanding Achievement Award went to the inimitable Jackie Collins. Read More...

There’s never been a better time to be a woman

Winner of the More4 Popular Non-Fiction Book Of The Year with How to be a Woman, The Times’ columnist Caitlin Moran interviewed. Read More...

Emma and Dawn – new double act?

Two hugely successful novels rewarded at the 2011 ceremony: Room, the startling Booker shortlisted novel by Emma Donoghue, wins the WHSmith Paperback of the Year while Dawn French fends off other bestselling novels to win Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year with A Tiny Bit Marvellous. Read More...

The biography we’ve been waiting for

With her much-acclaimed Charles Dickens: A Life - published to coincide with the bicentenary of his birth – renowned biographer Claire Tomalin paints an unforgettable portrait. Read More...

Celebrating the best in audio publishing

For the first time, the 2011 Galaxy National Book Awards featured the audible.co.uk Audiobook of the Year Award. This year’s accolade went to Louisa Young with her tale of love and loss in the First World War, My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You. Narrated by Dan Stevens. Read More...

“Storytelling as it should be” - Meg Rossof

Patrick Ness defeated last year’s winner of the National Book Tokens Children's Book of the Year, Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson, with his winning novel. Read More...

This year’s Must-Read novel is an international winner

While the awards primarily recognise British writers, representatives from the international literary world also gathered to witness Jennifer Egan awarded International Author of the Year for her “moving and life-enhancing” novel. Read More...

One of the night’s big surprises?

Debut novelist and this year’s CWA New Blood Dagger winner, S J Watson, held off crime fiction heavyweights Martina Cole, Ian Rankin. Val McDermid, Robert Harris, C J Sansom to win the Crime & Thriller of the Year with his chilling debut Before I Go To Sleep. Read More...

Vote Now

From Saturday 5th November, the public are invited to vote online for the Galaxy Book of the Year, the nominees of which comprise winners of all eleven categories. Read More...