Children's Book

• Patrick Ness
  Patrick Ness
  Patrick Ness is an American author, journalist and lecturer who lives in London. He holds both American and British citizenship...
  
  , The Ask and the Answer
  The Ask and the Answer
  The Ask And The Answer is the second installment in the Chaos Walking Trilogy written by Patrick Ness and published on May 4, 2009. The events follow immediately on from The Knife of Never Letting Go.-Plot summary:...
  
  

• Siobhan Dowd
  Siobhan Dowd
  Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist.-Biography:Siobhan Dowd was born in London to Irish parents...
  
  , Solace of the Road
• Mary Hoffman
  Mary Hoffman
  Mary Hoffman is a best-selling British author and critic, born in 1945.- Background :Mary Hoffman won a scholarship to James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich, which she describes as “an exercise in punctuation in itself.” From there she went to the University of Cambridge to study English at...
  
  , Troubadour
• Anna Perera, Guantanamo Boy

First Novel

• Raphael Selbourne, Beauty
  Beauty (novel)
  Beauty is a novel by Raphael Selbourne first published in 2009 about a young Muslim woman – the eponymous heroine – in search of personal freedom...
  
  

• Rachel Heath, The Finest Type of English Womanhood
• Peter Murphy, John the Revelator
• Ali Shaw, The Girl with Glass Feet

Novel

• Colm Tóibín
  Colm Tóibín
  Colm Tóibín is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and, most recently, poet.Tóibín is Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University in New Jersey and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the...
  
   Brooklyn
  Brooklyn (novel)
  -Plot summary:Eilis Lacey is a young woman who is unable to find work in 1950s Ireland. Her older sister Rose organizes a meeting with Father Flood visiting from New York. He tells Eilis of the wonderful opportunities awaiting her with very good employment prospects. Because of this she emigrates...
  
  

• Penelope Lively
  Penelope Lively
  Penelope Lively CBE, FRSL is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. She has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize, winning once for Moon Tiger in 1987.-Personal:...
  
  , Family Album
• Hilary Mantel
  Hilary Mantel
  Hilary Mary Mantel CBE , née Thompson, is an English novelist, short story writer and critic. Her work, ranging in subject from personal memoir to historical fiction, has been short-listed for major literary awards...
  
  , Wolf Hall
  Wolf Hall
  Wolf Hall is a multi-award winning historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a fictionalized biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex in the court of Henry VIII of...
  
  
• Christopher Nicholson, The Elephant Keeper

Biography

• Graham Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
  The Strangest Man
  The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius is a 2009 biography of quantum physicist Paul Dirac written by British physicist and author, Graham Farmelo, and published by Faber and Faber...
  
  

• William Fiennes
  William Fiennes (author)
  William Fiennes is a British author.Fiennes was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Eton College, and Oxford University, where he received both undergraduate and graduate degrees...
  
  , The Music Room
• Simon Gray
  Simon Gray
  Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE , was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years...
  
  , Coda
• Caroline Moorehead
  Caroline Moorehead
  Caroline Moorehead is a human rights journalist and biographer.Born in London, England, Moorehead received a BA from the University of London in 1965....
  
  , Dancing to the Precipice

Poetry

• Christopher Reid
  Christopher Reid
  Christopher Reid is a Hong Kong-born British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer. He has been nominated twice for the Whitbread Awards in 1996 and in 1997. A contemporary of Martin Amis, he was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He is one of the exponents of Martian poetry which employs...
  
  , A Scattering

• Clive James
  Clive James
  Clive James, AM is an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet and memoirist, best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs, for his chat shows and documentaries on British television and for his prolific journalism...
  
  , Angels Over Elsinore
• Katharine Kilalea, One Eye'd Leigh'
• Ruth Padel
  Ruth Padel
  Ruth Sophia Padel is a British poet, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London. She also writes non-fiction and more recently fiction, broadcasts on wildlife, poetry and literature for BBC Radio 3 and 4, and is Writer in Residence at The Environment Institute,...
  
  , Darwin: A Life in Poems