Previous winners
The Publisher of the Year
2004Time Warner
2003 Canongate
2002 HarperCollins
2001 Bloomsbury
2000 Bloomsbury
1999Penguin
1998 Random House
1997 Fourth Estate
1996 Transworld
1995 Little, Brown
1994 Transworld
1993 Dorling Kindersley
1992 Headline
1991 Transworld
1990 Faber & Faber
The Lifetime Achievement Award
2004Sir David Attenborough
2003 Alan Bennett
2002 Mark Barty-King
2001 Ernest Hecht
2000 Spike Milligan
1999 Maeve Binchy
1998 Jilly Cooper
1997 Paul Scherer
1996 Wilbur Smith
1995 Delia Smith
1994 Catherine Cookson
1993 Dr. D.G.Hessayon
The Bookselling Company of the Year
2004 Ottakar's
2003 Ottakar's
2002 Blackwell's, Oxford
2001 Hatchards, Piccadilly, London
2000 Waterstone's, Piccadilly, London
1999 Blackwell's, Charing Cross Road, London
1998 Waterstone's, Glasgow
1997 Ottakar's, Salisbury
1996 Waterstone's, Deansgate, Manchester
1995 Books etc, Charing Cross Road, London
1994 Books etc, Charing Cross Road, London
1993 Waterstone's, Nottingham
1992 Waterstone's, Bournemouth
1991 Sherratt & Hughes, Manchester
1990 Waterstone's, George Street, Edinburgh
The Independent Bookshop of the Year
2004 Peak Bookshop, Chesterfield
2003 Joint winners:
Falmouth Bookseller, Falmouth & Foyles, London
2002 Bookmark, Spalding
2001 The Bookshop, Dulwich Village
2000 The Lion & Unicorn, Richmond
1999 The Pan Bookshop, London
1998 Fred Hanna, Dublin
1997 John Smith, Glasgow
1996 Daunt Books, London
1995 Books for Cooks, London
1994 The Pan Bookshop, London
1993 James Thin, Dundee
1992 Kaydee Bookshop, Clitheroe
1991 Pritchards, Crosby
1990 Alison's Books, Bolton
Services to Bookselling
2003 Trevor Goul-Wheeker
1999 Tim Godfray
Services to Bookselling Awards
2004 Jacqueline Wilson
Representative of the Year
2004 Will Atkinson, Faber & Faber
2003 Marilyn Moorhouse, Random House
The Imprint of the Year
2004 Abacus
The Editor of the Year
2004 David Fickling (David Fickling Books)
The Imprint & Editor of the Year (previous years)
2003 Trevor Dolby (Orion Non-Fiction)
2003 Trevor Dolby (Orion Non-Fiction)
2002 Carole Welch (Hodder/Sceptre)
2001 Roddy Bloomfield (Hodder & Stoughton Sports)
2000 Louise Moore (Michael Joseph)
1999 Miriam Hodgson (Egmont Children's Books)
1998 Liz Calder (Bloomsbury)
1997 Liz Knights (Gollancz)
1996 Malcolm Edwards (HarperCollins)
1995 Christopher Potter (Fourth Estate)
1994 Diane Pearson (Transworld)
1993 Neil Belton (Jonathan Cape)
1992 Michael Fishwick (HarperCollins)
1991 Dan Franklin (Secker & Warburg)
Small Publisher of the Year
2004 Profile Books
The Award for Individual Bookselling Excellence
2003 Karin Scherer, Hatchards
2002 Duncan Turner, Hammicks, Bracknell
The Award for Innovation in the Book Business
2004BBC TWO's The Big Read
2003Ottakar's Microsites
2002 Ottakar's Local History Series
2001 batch.co.uk
The Publishing Innovation Award
2000 PubEasy.com
1997-1998 (no award)
1996 Helicon
1995 Dorling Kindersley Multimedia
The Marketing Campaign of the Year
2004 Mark Harrison and Hannah Beckerman for BBC2's The Big Read )
2003Minna Fry, Jon Parker, David Ward, Katie Collins for The Little Friend by Donna Tartt and Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott (Bloomsbury)
2002 World Book Day - Trevor Goul-Wheeker, Gill Cronin, Kate Bostock, Cathy Schofield,
and Colman Getty PR
2001 Bloomsbury for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2000 Mark McCallum for Hannibal (Heinemann)
1999 Mark McCallum and Grainne Ashton for Déjà Dead (Hutchinson/Arrow)
1998 Waterstone's Marketing Team and Colman Getty for Waterstone's Books of the Century
1997 Nadya Kooznetzoff, Jacqueline Graham & Michael Halden for The Debt to Pleasure
by John Lanchester (Picador)
1996 The Sales, Marketing & Publicity team at Penguin for the Penguin 60s Campaign
1995 Paul James & Jenny Seymour for Botham: My Autobiography (HarperCollins)
1994 Helen Ellis & David Singer for The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher (HarperCollins)
The Book Promotion of the Year
1992 Briar Silich and Mary Harpley for Sex by Madonna (Secker & Warburg)
and Alison Barrow for Nobody Nowhere (Doubleday)
1991 Nick McDowell for Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley (Macmillan)
1990 Louise Weir for Joy by Marsha Hunt (Century)
1989 Stark by Ben Elton (Sphere)
Cover Design of the Year
2004Rachael Ludbrook for The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Abacus)
2002 Five Boys Mick Jackson (Faber & Faber)
2001 David Beckham: My World (Hodder)
The Design & Production Award
2004Heidi Lightfoot and Daniel Edwards for Lyra's Oxford (David Fickling Books)
2003 Michel Blake for Fairie-ality, by David Elland (Walker)
2002 Moro the Cookbook Sam & Sam Clark (Ebury Press)
2001 London Peter Ackroyd (Chatto & Windus)
2000 The Tulip Anna Pavord (Bloomsbury)
1999 How To Eat Nigella Lawson (Chatto & Windus)
1998 Anchor Books (Transworld Publishers)
The Award for Exporting
2004 Pan Macmillan
2003 Pan MacMillan
2002 Penguin
2001 Macmillan
The Book Industry Award
2003Batch.co.uk
2003Ottakar's
2002 Bertram Books
2001 HarperCollins
2000 HarperCollins
1999 Macmillan Distribution
The Distributor of the Year
1997 Littlehampton Book Services
1996 Tiptree Book Services
1995 Tiptree Book Services
1994 Exel Logistics
1993 Penguin Distribution
1992 Tiptree Book Services
1991 Penguin Distribution
1990 Grantham Book Services
The In-Store Marketing Award
{2002 - no Award}
2001 Selfridges Book Dept
2000 Selfridges Book Dept
1999 Ottakar's, Bromley
1998 W H Smith Travel 'Read of the Week' Promotion
1997 Bookends, Christchurch
1996 'Waterstone's Recommends'
1995 Books etc, Charing Cross Road
The Cover Design of the Year
{2002 - no Award}
2002 Five Boys Mick Jackson (Faber & Faber)
2001 David Beckham: My World (Hodder)