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British Book Awards 2007

The 2007 British Book Awards went to The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay (Biography/Autobiography of the Year), The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden (Book of the Year) and Flanimals of the Deep by Ricky Gervais (Children's Book of the Year), with winners in 6 more categories. 44 books made the shortlist across 9 categories.

Winners

Biography/Autobiography of the Year

  1. The Sound of Laughtersource (opens in a new tab)

Book of the Year

  1. The Dangerous Book for Boyssource (opens in a new tab)

Children's Book of the Year

  1. Flanimals of the Deepsource (opens in a new tab)

Crime Thriller of the Year

  1. The Naming of the Deadsource (opens in a new tab)

New Writer of the Year

  1. The Islandsource (opens in a new tab)

Popular Fiction

  1. Anybody Out There?source (opens in a new tab)

Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year

  1. The Interpretation of Murdersource (opens in a new tab)

Sports Book of the Year

  1. Gerrard: My Autobiographysource (opens in a new tab)

TV & Film Book of the Year

  1. The Devil Wears Pradasource (opens in a new tab)

Shortlist

Biography/Autobiography of the Year

  1. Humble Piesource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Marley and Mesource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Mansource (opens in a new tab)

Book of the Year

  1. Suite Françaisesource (opens in a new tab)
  2. The God Delusionsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Islandsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Night Watchsource (opens in a new tab)
  5. The Sound of Laughtersource (opens in a new tab)

Children's Book of the Year

  1. Horrid Henry and the Football Fiendsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Peter Pan in Scarletsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamassource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Incredible Book Eating Boysource (opens in a new tab)
  5. Wintersmithsource (opens in a new tab)

Crime Thriller of the Year

  1. Looking Good Deadsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. One Good Turnsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Righteous Mensource (opens in a new tab)

New Writer of the Year

  1. The Meaning of Nightsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. The Observationssource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Thirteenth Talesource (opens in a new tab)

Popular Fiction

  1. Closesource (opens in a new tab)
  2. The Constant Princesssource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Wicked!source (opens in a new tab)

Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year

  1. Half of a Yellow Sunsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Love in the Present Tensesource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Restlesssource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Semi-Detachedsource (opens in a new tab)
  5. The Girlssource (opens in a new tab)
  6. The Testament of Gideon Macksource (opens in a new tab)
  7. This Book Will Save Your Lifesource (opens in a new tab)

Sports Book of the Year

  1. Pelé: The Autobiographysource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Penguins Stopped Playsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. There's an Awful Lot of Bubbly in Brazilsource (opens in a new tab)

TV & Film Book of the Year

  1. An Inconvenient Truthsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Planet Earthsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Book of General Ignorancesource (opens in a new tab)

About the British Book Awards

Book of the Year categories only, shortlists plus winners. Audiobook categories and awards to people (Author, Illustrator, International Author, deciBel Writer, Outstanding Achievement) are skipped. Run as the Galaxy British Book Awards (2006-2009), Galaxy National Book Awards (2010-2011), Specsavers National Book Awards (2012-2014) and, under The Bookseller, the British Book Awards or Nibbies (2017-). No awards were held in 2015 or 2016. Year is the ceremony year: spring for 2006-2009 and 2017-2025, November-December for 2010-2014. Category names follow each era's own. For 2010-2014 Book of the Year was a public vote among that year's category winners, which are recorded as its shortlist; 2008-2009 Book of the Year and 2018-2025 Overall Book of the Year record the winner only, chosen from the category winners. Sources: The Bookseller and the official awards sites (archived on web.archive.org) where available; otherwise press coverage (The Guardian, The Independent, Publishing Perspectives, BBC, the awards' PR agency Taylor Herring) and, for 2013 Popular Fiction and Crime shortlists, a crime-fiction blog. 2017-2025 shortlists were transcribed from Wikipedia and each title checked against the cited page. 2013 Biography, Children's, Food & Drink and Popular Non-Fiction record winners only; the shortlists could not be recovered.

Organization: The Bookseller. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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