Organized by
 
  • KPMG Publisher of the Year
  • Activair Award for Exporting
  • Baker Tilly Imprint & Editor of the Year
  • Bookzone Sales & Marketing Campaign
  • Booktrust Award for inspiring wider reading
  • StoraEnso Design & Production Award
  • Vista Award for industry Achievement
  • Vista Award for industry Achievement
  • Bowker Bookselling Company of the Year
  • Aurum Independent Bookshop of the Year
  • The Van Tulleken Company Small Publisher of the Year
  • Midas PR Publicity Campaign of the Year
  • Nielsen BookData Award for Innovation in the Book Business
  • Winners from previous years
  • Winners from previous years



  • WINNER
    Orion Publishing Group
    Faber & Faber
    Random House Group
    Time Warner Book Group


    WINNER
    (announced at London Book Fair)
    Random House


    WINNER - Atlantic Toby Mundy
    The Chicken House Barry Cunningham
    Corgi/Black Swan Bill Scott-Kerr
    Faber & Faber Children's Suzy Jenvey
    Harper Perennial Venetia Butterfield
    Weidenfeld & Nicolson Illustrated Michael Dover


    WINNER -The Bloomsbury Marketing Team led by Minna Fry for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
    Derek Searle, Bob Cripps and Rosie Ries for Being Jordan by Katie Price (John Blake Publishing)
    Macmillan Children's Books sales and marketing team led by Emma Hopkin. for The Gruffalo's Child by Julia Donaldson illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Macmillan Children's Books)
    David Kent, Alison Lindsay for Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman (Little, Brown)
    James Kellow, Naomi Fidler & Liz Smith For You Are What You Eat by Gillian McKeith (Michael Joseph)


    WINNER
    Amanda Ross, Managing Director Cactus TV and Executive Producer Richard & Judy


    WINNER - Nghiem Ta and the production team at Templar for Egyptology edited by Dugald Steer (Templar Books)
    Mary Gibson, Caz Hildebrand for Feast by Nigella Lawson (Chatto & Windus)
    David Eldridge and Two Associates, Storm Thorgerson, David Rowley, Richard Hussey for Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
    David Profitt, Bernard Higton, Kate Rogers, Laura Brodie for Jack Vettriano by Jack Vettriano with Antony Quinn (Pavilion)
    Will Webb for Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
    Richard Atkinson, Jo Seaton, Paddy Cramsie for The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Hodder & Stoughton)


    WINNER - Mark Williams Managing Director, Random House Distribution
    Thomas Bonneville Operations Manager, Bloomsbury
    Stephen Page Chief Executive Officer, Faber & Faber
    Fraser Tanner Managing Director, batch.co.uk


    WINNER - Waterstone's
    Amazon.co.uk
    Borders UK
    Ottakar's


    WINNER - Aldeburgh Bookshop Suffolk
    The Bookcase Lowdham
    The Bookshop Chipping Norton
    Daunt Books London W1
    The Lion and Unicorn Bookshop Richmond
    Topping & Co Ely


    WINNER -
    John Blake Publishing
  • Founded in 1991 by ex-Fleet Street journalist John Blake. Publishes 100-120 titles a year
  • Staff: 11 full-time
  • Turnover: £6.0m
  • Bestseller to date: Being Jordan by Katie Price (750,000)
  • Atlantic Books
  • Founded: 2004 by ex-Weidenfeld Editor, Toby Mundy. Publishes 85 books a year
  • Staff: 15, including part-time
  • Turnover: £2.9m
  • Bestseller to date: Killing Pablo, by Mark Bowden, a biography of Pablo Escobar
  • Short Books
  • Founded in 2001 by former journalists Rebecca Nicolson (daughter of Nigel Nicolson of Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Aurea Carpenter. Publishes 20-25 titles
  • Staff: 3
  • Turnover: £1.2m
  • Bestseller to date: Change the World for a Fiver
  • Templar Publishing
  • Founded in 1980 by Richard Carlisle, former Editorial Director of Marshall Cavendish; Publishes 60-80 titles a year
  • Staff: 35
  • Turnover: £10.00m
  • Bestseller to date: Dragonology, by Dug (sic) Steer
  • White Ladder Press
  • Founded in 2003 by husband-and-wife team Richard Craze [who previously worked in management] and Roni Jay, who worked in marketing; Publishes 12 titles a year
  • Staff: 2
  • Turnover: "There's month-on-month growth at the moment"
  • Bestseller to date: From Lad to Dad, by Stephen Giles


  • WINNER - Katie Bond (Bloomsbury) for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    Tamsin Barrack & Jenny Fry (Time Warner) for Long Way Round
    Alison Barrow (Corgi) for The Da Vinci Code
    Diana Colbert (Colbert Macalister for John Blake Publishing) for Being Jordan
    Rina Gill (Century) for Sickened
    Lisa Gooding (Serpent's Tail) for One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed
    Adele Minchin (Puffin) for How I Live Now
    Clare Pollock (Penguin) for Not on the Label
    Gaby Young (Orion) for Orion New Blood crime launch




    WINNER - Meet the Author
    Harper Perennial
    Reading Partners


    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)



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