Posted by: Keir
And they just keep coming. The 2007 British Book Awards finally bring the famous “Three G’s” — John Grisham, Ricky Gervais, and Steven Gerrard — together. It’s about time. If only they had all three been there.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Best Read of the Year
The Interpretation of Murder, by Jed Rubenfeld (Holt)
Author of the Year
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins (Houghton)
Biography of the Year
The Sound of Laughter, by Peter Kay (Century)
Book of the Year
The Dangerous Book for Boys, by Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden (Collins)
Children’s Book of the Year
Flanimals of the Deep, by Ricky Gervais (Faber & Faber)
Crime Thriller of the Year
The Naming of the Dead, by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown)
Newcomer of the Year
The Island, by Victoria Hislop (Headline Review)
Popular Fiction Award
Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes (Morrow)
Sports Book of the Year
Gerrard: My Autobiography, by Steven Gerrard (Transworld)
TV & Film Book of the Year
The Devil Wears Prada, by Lauren Weisberger,
Writer of the Year
Wish I Was Here, by Jackie Kay (Picador)
For the complete, endless list of award sponsors, click here. Or better yet, don’t. The Independent has a wrapup with a headline that says it all (”Gervais triumphs over Pratchett in British Book Awards,” by Louise Jury) — yet goes on anyway:
Gervais beat established writers including Geraldine McCaughrean and Terry Pratchett to take the children’s book of the year honour with Flanimals of the Deep, the third in the series he has produced with the illustrator Rob Steen. Gervais accepted his award live on stage in Ipswich. “That’s fantastic … it’s the first one for my literary outputs,” he said, admitting his work had been described as “books about bollocks with eyes drawn on them”.
