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The awards are made in a number of headline categories:

• Best Read of the Year
• Lifetime Achievement Award
• Author of the Year
• Biography of the Year
• Book of the Year
• Children's Book of the Year
• Crime Thriller of the Year
• Writer of the Year
• History Book of the Year
• Literary Fiction Award
• Newcomer of the Year Award
• Sports Book of the Year
• TV & Film Book of the Year

A further series of awards are made in subsidiary categories called the British Book Trade Awards.

• Publisher of the Year
• Award for Exporting
• Imprint & Editor of the Year
• Sales & Marketing Campaign
• Award for inspiring wider reading
• Design & Production Award
• Award for industry Achievement
• Bowker Bookselling Company of the Year
• Aurum Independent Bookshop of the Year
• Small Publisher of the Year
• Publicity Campaign of the Year
• Award for Innovation in the Book Business

In 2007 the British Book Trade Awards became the British Book Industry awards.

The 2007 shortlists are as follows:

Stora Enso Design & Production Award
City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London Vic Gatrell (Atlantic Books)
The Cloudspotter's Guide Gavin Pretor-Pinney (Sceptre)
The Dangerous Book for Boys Conn and Hal Iggulden (HarperCollins) Penguin Designer Classics series (Penguin)
Pirateology and the Ology series (Templar Publishing)
That's Not My ... series (Usborne Publishing)

The Guardian Marketing Campaign of the Year
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne (David Fickling Books)
Close and The Take Martina Cole (Headline)
Freakonomics Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner (Penguin)
Penguin Classics 60th Anniversary (Penguin)
Pelé: The Autobiography (Simon & Schuster)
The Sound of Laughter Peter Kay (Century)

Baker Tilly Imprint & Editor of the Year
Atlantic Books - Toby Mundy
Chatto & Windus - Penelope Hoare
Faber & Faber - Julian Loose
Hamish Hamilton - Simon Prosser
Headline Review - Jane Morpeth
Serpent's Tail - Pete Ayrton

Midas Public Relations Publicity Campaign of the Year Award
Kerry Hood with Eleni Fostiropoulos (Hodder & Stoughton) for Ugly
Helen Johnstone (HarperCollins) for The Dangerous Book for Boys
Anwen Hooson (Penguin) for Bollocks to Alton Towers
Digby Halsby (Pocket Books) for The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook
Anwen Hooson (Hamish Hamilton) for How to Fish
Cecilia Duraes (Hutchinson) for Telling Some Tales
Caroline Newbury (Ebury) for Girl With a One Track Mind
Ian Lamb ((Bloomsbury) for H.I.V.E
Ruth Warburton (Chatto) for Suite Française
Maria Boyle and Rosie Glaisher (MB Communications and Penguin) for The Penguin Classics Series

Nielsen BookData Award for Innovation in the Book Industry
5th Estate
The Friday Project
Jamie Oliver's Home Cooking Day
Lightning Source large-print initiative

Harlequin Mills & Boon Direct Bookselling Company of the Year
Amazon.co.uk
Play.com
The Book Depository
The Book People
[1]Waterstones.com

Aurum Press Independent Bookshop of the Year
Bookmark, Spalding
Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London
Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, Bath
Much Ado Books, Alfriston
Simply Books, Stockport

Bowker UK Chain Bookselling Company of the Year
Borders UK
Hughes & Hughes Booksellers
WHSmith Travel
Tesco
Waterstone's

Sue Butterworth Award for Young Bookseller of the Year - sponsored by HarperCollins
Anthony Browne (Waterstone's)
Amy Tipper (Borders UK)
Ellenita Winters (Hughes & Hughes)

British Council & London Book Fair UK Young Publisher of the Year
Emma Barnes, Snowbooks
Tom Chalmers, Legend Press
Clare Christian, The Friday Project
Emma Hayley, MetroMedia
Catherine Hunt, HarperCollins
Jon Wood, Orion

Activair Award for Exporting
HarperCollins
Penguin
Random House Group


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The winners of each category will be announced on 1 May at the Awards ceremony in Harrogate.

See also

• List of British literary awards
• List of literary awards
• List of prizes, medals, and awards
• English literature
• British literature

A list of British literary awards: Booker Prize British Book Awards -- the Nibbies Commonwealth Writers Prize Duff Cooper Prize Hawthornden Prize Hessell-Tiltman Prize John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Orange Prize for Fiction Samuel Johnson Prize Somerset Maugham Award Whitbread Awards Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize Bridport Prize Cholmondeley Award Eric Gregory... This is a list of literary awards from around the world: // Nobel Prize in Literature Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for childrens and youth literature. ... A list of famous prizes, medals and awards including cups, trophies, bowls, badges, state decorations etc. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S... MARIANA TE AMOBritish literature is literature from the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. ...

External links

• Official Site
• Publishing News website
• Literature Network