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McEwan gets two Nibbies
Ian
McEwan received two awards at this year’s Nibbie book awards.
As well as winning the main prize he was named Reader's Digest Author
of the Year for On Chesil Beach .
Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns (Bloomsbury) won the
Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year.
Kim Edwards received the Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award for The
Memory Keeper's Daughter (Penguin).
Catherine O'Flynn was named Waterstone Newcomer of the Year for What
was Lost (Tindal Street).
Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman’s Long Way Down (Sphere)
won the Play.com Popular Non-Fiction Award.
The same house saw success with the Booksdirect Crime Thriller of the
Year which went to Patricia Cornwell for Book of the Dead.
Francesca Simon's Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman (Orion)
won the WHSmith Children's Book of the Year.
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