British Sports Book Awards 2011 shortlist

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR

• Blood, Sweat and Treason by Henry Olonga (Vision Sports Publishing)
• No Place to Hide by Errol Christie (Aurum)
• Beware of the Dog by Brian Moore (Simon and Schuster)
• Please Don't Go by John Hartson (Mainstream Publishing)
• We Were Young and Carefree by Laurent Fignon (Yellow Jersey Press)
• My Liverpool Home by Kenny Dalglish (Hodder & Stoughton)

BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR

• Frankincense and More by Robin Oakley (Racing Post)
• A Last English Summer by Duncan Hamilton (Quercus)
• Trautmann's Journey by Catrine Clay (Yellow Jersey Press)
• Get In There! by Tom Lawton Junior and Barrie Williams (Vision Sports Publishing)
• The Grudge by Tom English (Yellow Jersey Press)
• Bill Nicholson by Brian Scovell (John Blake Publishing)

BEST FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR

• Football - Bloody Hell! by Patrick Barclay (Yellow Jersey Press)
• Promised Land by Anthony Clavane (Yellow Jersey Press)
• Trautmann's Journey by Catrine Clay (Yellow Jersey Press)
• Family by Michael Calvin (Integr8 Books)
• Bill Nicholson by Brian Scovell (John Blake Publishing)
• In Search of Alan Gilzean by James Morgan (BackPage Press)
• The Anatomy of England by Jonathan Wilson (Orion)

BEST RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR

• The Iron Duke by Peter Jackson (Mainstream Publishing)
• Blue Blood by Bernard Jackman (Irish Sports Publishing)
• The Grudge by Tom English (Yellow Jersey Press)
• After the Lemons by Kevin Coughlan, Peter Hall and Colin Gale (Montroy Media)
• The Rugby Coaching Manual by Keith Richardson (Self Published)
• Beware of the Dog by Brian Moore (Simon and Schuster)

BEST CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR

• Swinging Away by Beth Hise (Scala Publishers)
• A Last English Summer by Duncan Hamilton (Quercus)
• The Victory Tests by Mark Rowe (Sportsbooks)
• Slipless in Settle by Harry Pearson (Little Brown)
• Blood, Sweat and Treason by Henry Olonga (Vision Sports Publishing)
• The Cricketer's Progress by Eric Midwinter (Third Age Publishing)

BEST RACING BOOK OF THE YEAR

• Kauto Star and Denman by Jonathan Powell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• The Story of Your Life by James Lambie (Matador)
• Bayardo by Peter Corbet (Rinaldo Publishing)
• Masters of Manton by Paul Mathieu (Write First Time)
• Bioenergetics and Racehorse Racing by Bob Wilkins (Overdee Press)
• Chasers and Hurdlers 09-10 by Timeform (Portway Press)
• The Art of the Race by Amanda Lockhart (Envisage Books)

BEST NEW SPORTS WRITER OF THE YEAR

• On The Road by Daniel Harris (Speakeasy Books)
• Sailing the Dream by Mike Perham (Bantam Press)
• Bounce by Matthew Syed (Fourth Estate)
• Overdrive by Clyde Brolin (Vatersay Books)
• Animals by Neil Clack (Pitch Publishing)
• The Fixer by Steve Bunce (Mainstream Publishing)

ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR

• Jochen Rindt by David Tremayne (Haynes Publishing)
• W.G.Grace Ate My Pedalo by Tyers and Beach (Wisden/Bloomsbury Publishing)
• Another Journey Through the Links by David Worley (Aurum)
• Manchester United 1878-2010 by Alex Murphy (Simon and Schuster)
• Twickenham by Iain Spragg (RFU/ Vision Sports Publishing)
• '61 The Spurs Double by Doug Cheeseman, Martin Cloake and Adam Powley (Vision Sports Publishing)

The six authors on the shortlist were:

• SJ Bolton (Bantam Press, Transworld)
• RJ Ellory (Orion)
• Jason Goodwin (Faber & Faber)
• Mo Hayder (Bantam Press, Transworld)
• Susan Hill (Vintage)
• Philip Kerr (Quercus)

Libraries and library reading groups were invited to submit nominations for the Dagger in the Library Award 2011. The award is given to the crime author 'whose body of work is currently giving the greatest enjoyment to readers.'

Libraries and library reading groups who took part could nominate up to three authors and also had the chance to win £300 worth of books or tickets to the awards gala.

The Dagger in the Library Award is sponsored by Random House as part of the Crime Writers' Association's annual Dagger Awards. Unlike other awards, Dagger in the Library nominations are made solely by UK libraries and library reading groups and the Prize is awarded for an author's entire body of work.

Each year's judging panel comprises of librarians from around the country. This year's judges were:

Chair Cheney Gardner (Richmond)
John Martin (Leicestershire)
Helen McNabb (Vale of Glamorgan)
Deb Ryan (RNIB)
Mobeena Khan (Hertfordshire)
Vice Chair: Karen Fraser (Shetland)

Dagger in the Library can also be found on Facebook and any enquiries about the nominations can be emailed to library.dagger@thecwa.co.uk.

We are thrilled to reveal the 25 titles that will be given away on the second World Book Night. The selected books were initially chosen by public vote and then narrowed down by an editorial committee. A total of one million copies of the final 25 will be given away by voluntary book givers on 23 April 2012.

To find out more about World Book Night, or if you are interested in becoming a book giver, visit www.worldbooknight.org

The 25 titles selected for World Book Night 2012 are:

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Vintage)

• The Player of Games by Iain M Banks (Little, Brown)

• Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham (Little, Brown)
• Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (Transworld)
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperCollins)
• The Take by Martina Cole (Headline)
• Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell (HarperCollins)
• Someone Like You by Roald Dahl (Penguin)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Penguin)

• Room by Emma Donoghue (Pan Macmillan)

• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (Little, Brown)

• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)

• Misery by Stephen King (Hodder)

• The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (Transworld)
• Small Island by Andrea Levy (Headline)

• Let the Right One In by John Ajvde Lindqvist (Quercus)

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Pan Macmillan)

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Vintage)

• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell (Headline)
• The Damned Utd by David Peace (Faber)

• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (Transworld)
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (Penguin)
• Touching the Void by Joe Simpson (Vintage)
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (Vintage)

• The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak (Transworld)

Becoming a book giver

To apply to be a book giver for World Book Night 2012 click here. The application deadline is Friday 30 December 2011.

Library briefing pack

Briefing packs will be circulated to libraries and available to download from The Reading Agency website in December. They will include information about when the books will be delivered and more details about the campaign.

World Book Night 2011

We were delighted to be lead the library element of the first ever World Book Night, brainchild of Canongate's Jamie Byng.

World Book Night happened on 5 March 2011, when 1,000,000 book were given away by "an army of passionate readers" to members of the public across the UK and Ireland. We were inspired by the imaginative response and great events that took place in libraries across the country, including late night library events.

On 4 March, the day before World Book Night there was a thrilling showcase event in Trafalgar Square with a great line-up of authors, actors and musicians. This included authors such as Margaret Atwood, Philip Pullman and Sarah Waters. The event was compered by Graham Norton.

The 25 titles selected for World Book Night 2011 were:

* Kate Atkinson - Case Histories (Black Swan)
* Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin (Virago)
* Alan Bennett - A Life Like Other People's (Faber/Profile)
* John Le Carré - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Penguin)
* Lee Child - Killing Floor (Bantam)
* Carol Ann Duffy - The World's Wife (Picador)
* Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Vintage)
* Seamus Heaney - Selected Poems (Faber)
* Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday (Poolbeg/Penguin)
* Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Penguin)
* Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag (Bloomsbury)
* Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera (Penguin)
* Yann Martel - Life of Pi (Canongate)
* Alexander Masters - Stuart: A Life Backwards (Fourth Estate)
* Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance (Faber)
* David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (Sceptre)
* Toni Morrison - Beloved (Vintage)
* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun (Fourth Estate)
* David Nicholls - One Day (Hachette/Hodder)
* Philip Pullman - Northern Lights (Scholastic)
* Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front (Vintage)
* C J Sansom - Dissolution (Pan)
* Nigel Slater - Toast (Fourth Estate)
* Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin)
* Sarah Waters - Fingersmith (Virago)

We've been working with 19 trailblazing library authorities to get initial data up on the website. We are now calling for all libraries, other organisations and people who run reading groups, writing groups and book clubs to enter the details of their groups into the database. We want to build up comprehensive data on reading groups in the UK and build a campaign for reading and reading groups.

Through the Reading Groups for Everyone website you will be able to:

• Find a reading group to join in your local area
• Get ideas and tips on how to set up your own reading group
• Add your own reading group
• Get free stuff from publishers

Libraries run the greatest number of reading groups for the public so we are prioritising working with them to get their data into the website first. However, we know that there are also a large number of reading groups run by other organisations and local people so, we will eventually be asking anyone who runs a reading group, writing group or book club to enter their reading group details into the Reading Groups for Everyone website.

Stay in touch

Join our brand new Facebook page and join the chat around reading and reading groups including libraries' role in reading groups. We'll be delighted to link up with you there.

You can also email readinggroups@readingagency.org.uk with your name and email address and we'll keep you in touch with the latest news about Reading Groups for Everyone.

The morning presentations featured three case studies of reading groups run in different settings - a library, a college and a workplace.

Library: Heckmondwike Chatabout group

College: Encouraging shared reading

Workplace
Genevieve Clarke's presentation was on how The Reading Agency's is working with unions to help support reading in the workplace. We have published a free booklet with the support of unionlearn to celebrate the success of the scheme and spread good practice for others who are running it. Six Book Challenge at Work: Unions and libraries promote reading is available to download for free from the Six Book Challenge website.

In the afternoon the focus switched to reading materials and how different formats can be used to engage reluctant and emergent readers.

Reading more than books

Reading more than books - games

Community publishing - Our Lives

Join Chatabout and talk about the Network Day with presenters and delegates.

The promotion pledges to support those writers who deserve recognition but have yet to receive a major literary prize or media attention, or be picked for retailer promotions.

Fiction Uncovered will create the opportunity for eight fiction writers (of novels, short stories or graphic novels) in the UK to be part of a major promotion supported by retailers, libraries and a major publicity and marketing campaign.

The 2011 judging panel, which decided on the eight titles, was chaired by author Giles Foden, with Sarah Crown (Literary Editor, Guardian online), Damian Barr (writer, journalist and salonniere) and Simon Burke (Fiction Buying Manager for Waterstone's) as fellow judges.

The eight selected titles are:

• The Water Theatre by Lindsay Clarke (Alma Books)
• The English German Girl by Jake Wallis Simons (Polygon)
• Night Waking by Sarah Moss (Granta)
• Proof of Love by Catherine Hall (Portobello)
• Nimrod's Shadow by Chris Paling (Portobello)
• Disputed Land by Tim Pears (William Heinemann)
• Forgetting Zoe by Ray Robinson (William Heinemann)
• The London Satyr by Robert Edric (Doubleday)

The Reading Agency invited library-linked reading groups around the country to read and review the eight titles from Spring 2011. For further information about the Fiction Uncovered promotion, please visit the dedicated website: http://www.fictionuncovered.co.uk/about/

The shortlist for the Galaxy National Book Awards was announced on 17 October.

The winners in each category will be announced on 4 November.

The annual awards celebrate the best of British fiction and non-fiction across eleven categories, including those for debut and children's authors. The awards have evolved from the Galaxy British Book Awards and aim to recognise the country's most popular, accessible writers.

Following the awards ceremony, there will be a six-part TV series, 'BOOKED - Winners of the Galaxy National Book Awards' on More4. 'BOOKED' will run from Sunday 13 November until 18 December. Viewers will be given a chance to experience the awards ceremony, hosted by Dara O Briain, in bite size chunks with a focus on different category winners each week. The show will also feature in-depth interviews with some of the season's biggest celebrity authors, including Katie Price and Rob Brydon.

Promotional material is available from the Reading Agency shop until Friday 21 October.

The full press release can be viewed here.

Galaxy National Book Awards 2010

In 2010 we ran a promotion around the Galaxy National Book Awards. The awards return later this year and we will, once again, be encouraging libraries to promote the awards, by making displays, stocking the titles, and getting reading groups involved.

Award categories for the Galaxy National Book Awards 2010

In 2010 the awards covered 9 categories. Below is the list of categories along with the shortlisted and winning titles (in bold).

SAINSBURY'S POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
One Day by David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)
Dead Like You by Peter James (Macmillan)
The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson (Sphere)
Jump! by Jilly Cooper (Bantam Press)
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory (Simon & Schuster)
Worth Dying For by Lee Child (Bantam Press)

NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Making of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr (Pan Macmillan)
Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos (Bloomsbury)
At Home by Bill Bryson (Doubleday)
D-Day by Antony Beevor (Viking)
Must You Go? by Antonia Fraser (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Operation Mincemeat by Ben MacIntyre (Bloomsbury)

NATIONAL BOOK TOKENS NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR
Edmund de Waal by The Hare with Amber Eyes (Chatto & Windus)
The Butterfly Isles by Patrick Barkham (Granta Books)
The Legacy by Katherine Webb (Orion)
Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt (Fig Tree)
Mr Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons (Sceptre)
Rupture by Simon Lelic (Picador)

WH SMITH CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
Zog by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler (Alison Green Books)
The Great Hamster Massacre by Katie Davies, illus Hannah Shaw (Simon and Schuster)
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness (Walker Books)
Mr Stink by David Walliams (HarperCollins Children's Books)
Shadow by Michael Morpurgo (HarperCollins Children's Books)
TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow (Puffin)

TESCO FOOD & DRINK BOOK OF THE YEAR
Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi (Ebury Press)
The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit (Bloomsbury)
Jamie's 30-Minute Meals by Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph)
Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home by Nigella Lawson (Chatto & Windus)
Kitchenella by Rose Prince (Fourth Estate)
Tender II by Nigel Slater (Fourth Estate)

TESCO BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR
The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry (Michael Joseph)
Coco Chanel, The Legend And The Life by Justine Picardie (Harper NonFiction)
Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010 by Chris Mullin (Profile Books)
A Journey by Tony Blair (Hutchinson)
Wait For Me by Duchess of Devonshire (John Murray)
What You See Is What You Get by Alan Sugar (Macmillan)

INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR OF THE YEAR
Jonathan Franzen: Freedom (Fourth Estate)
Colm Tóibín: Brooklyn (Penguin)
Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Quercus/MacLehose Press)
Kathryn Stockett: The Help (Fig Tree)
Emma Donoghue: Room (Picador)
Christos Tsiolkas: The Slap (Tuskar Rock Press)

WATERSTONE'S UK AUTHOR OF THE YEAR
Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate)
Tom McCarthy: C (Jonathan Cape)
Maggie O'Farrell: The Hand That First Held Mine (Headline Review)
Kate Atkinson: Started Early, Took My Dog (Doubleday)
David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Sceptre)
Rose Tremain: Trespass (Chatto & Windus)

Lifetime achievement awards went to Terry Pratchett and Martin Amis.

POS material was available from The Reading Agency shop but the deadline has now passed.

Galaxy British Book Awards

In 2009, the Galaxy British Book Awards were promoted through extensive TV advertising as well as dedicated TV programming on Watch.

The Galaxy British Book Awards 2009 categories and their winners were:

• Galaxy Book of the Year
  The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury)
• Richard and Judy Best Read Award
  When Will There Be Good News by Kate Atkinson (Black Swan)
• Borders' Author of the Year Award
  Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger
  (Atlantic Books)
• Tesco Biography of the Year
  Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama (Canongate)
• Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year
  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Quercus)
• Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award
  Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks (Penguin)
• Play.com Popular Non-Fiction Award
  The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury)
• Waterstone's New Writer of the Year
  Tom Rob Smith for Child 44 (Simon & Schuster)
• WHSmith Children's Book of the Year
  Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Atom)

The series was presented by Jo Brand, Dave Spikey, Laila Rouass, Meera Syal, and Ade Edmondson.

The 10 selected titles were:

• Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador)
• The Long Song by Andrea Levy (Headline)
• The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey (Penguin)
• Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna (Orion)
• News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn (Penguin)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Pan Macmillan)
• Bleed for Me by Michael Robotham (Sphere)
• Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor (Bloomsbury)
• My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin (Headline)
• Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst (Orion)

The promotion ran from January to April 2011.

The TV Book Club 2010

The 10 selected titles for the 2010 series of the TV Book Club were as follows (in the order that they appeared in the series):

• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Little, Brown)
• Blacklands by Belinda Bauer (Transworld)
• Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant (Little, Brown)
• Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (Penguin)
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Random House)
• The Rapture by Liz Jensen (Bloomsbury)
• Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne (Harper Collins)
• The Way Home by George Pelecanos (Orion)
• Wedlock by Wendy Moore (Orion)
• The Silver Linings Play Book by Matthew Quick (Macmillan)

• Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo, translated by Edith Grossman from the Spanish, published by Atlantic Books

At 36, Roncagliolo is the youngest-ever author, as well as the first from Peru, to win the Prize. The £10,000 award is shared equally with Roncagliolo's American translator, Edith Grossman, who is also a first-time winner. She was previously shortlisted for the Prize in 2003.

Please see the press release for more information.

The shortlisted titles were:

• Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo, translated by Edith Grossman from the Spanish, published by Atlantic Books

• Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras, translated by Frank Wynne from the Spanish, published by Atlantic Books

• The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka, translated by Margaret Jull Costa from the Spanish, published by Maclehose Press

• Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky from the German, published by Portobello Books

• The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely from the Turkish, published by Faber and Faber

• I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson, translated by Charlotte Barslund with Per Petterson from the Norwegian, published by Harvill Secker

Interested in reading one of these titles?

We have offered six reading groups the opportunity to read, discuss and review the shortlisted titles. The reviews will be published here and on Booktrust's website. If your reading group has read one of the books, or is planning to read one, please email us your reviews.

Competition

We offered one reading group the chance to attend the awards ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London on Thursday 26 May. The reading group had to tell us, in 250 words, why they liked reading translated fiction. Check back soon to see the winning reading group's entry and a photograph of them on the night!

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist

The longlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011 was announced on 10 March. The following titles were longlisted:

• Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky from the German, published by Portobello Books

• Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras, translated by Frank Wynne from the Spanish, published by Atlantic Books

• To the End of the Land by David Grossman, translated by Jessica Cohen from Hebrew, published by Jonathan Cape

• Fame by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Carol Brown Janeway from the German, published by Quercus

• Beside the Sea by Veronique Olmi, translated by Adriana Hunter from the French, published by Peirene Press

• The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely from the Turkish, published by Faber and Faber

• I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson, translated by Charlotte Barslund with Per Petterson from the Norwegian, published by Harvill Secker

• Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo, translated by Edith Grossman from the Spanish, published by Atlantic Books

• Gargling with Tar by Jachym Topol, translated by David Short from the Czech, published by Portobello Books

• The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka, translated by Margaret Jull Costa from the Spanish, published by Maclehose Press

• The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, translated by Anne McLean from the Spanish, published by Bloomsbury

• The Journey of Anders Sparrman by Per Wastberg, translated by Tom Geddes from the Swedish, published by Granta

• Lovetown by Michal Witkowski, translated by W Martin from the Polish, published by Portobello Books

• Villain by Shuichi Yoshida, translated by Philip Gabriel from the Japanese, published by Harvill Secker

• Dark Matter by Juli Zeh, translated by Christine Lo from the German, published by Harvill Secker

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010

The winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010, in association with Champagne Taittinger, was Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel, translated by John Cullen, and published by MacLehose Press.

The following titles were shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010:

• Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel, translated by John Cullen from the French, published by MacLehose Press
• The Blind Side of the Heart by Julia Franck translated by Anthea Bell from the German, published by Harvill Secker
• Fists by Pietro Grossi, translated by Howard Curtis from the Italian, published by Pushkin Press
• Broken Glass by Alain Manbanckou, translated by Helen Stevenson from the French, published by Serpent's Tail
• The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami, translated by Anthea Bell from the German, published by Arabia Books
• Chowringhee by Sankar, translated by Arunava Sinha from the Bengali, published by Atlantic Books

Uniquely, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize acknowledges both the novelist and the translator equally, recognising the importance of the translator in their ability to bridge the gap between languages and cultures. The winning author and translator are awarded £5,000 each and a limited edition magnum of Champagne Taittinger.

Last year we offered 10 reading groups the chance to shadow the prize and review the shortlisted titles. The Allington group from Kent won our competition for the best book review, and the prize was coming to the awards ceremony. We also supplied all library authorities with an A4 downloadable poster featuring the shortlisted titles so they could promote them in their libraries.

To mark the fifth anniversary of the programme, English PEN produced an A5 sampler (approx. 200 pages) featuring extracts from all 36 works.

We teamed up with English PEN to offer libraries a fantastic opportunity to run a Writers in Translation promotion. For only £10 (which covered P&P), libraries could purchase a pack of 100 samplers. For every pack of 100 that was ordered, libraries received a free reading group set (10-12 books) of one of the 36 titles.

The promotion has now ended, but you can still download the booklist and poster.

• 26 June: The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson (Orion)
• 3 July: Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane (Little, Brown)
• 10 July: Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Constable & Robinson)
• 17 July: The Night Road by Kristin Hannah (Macmillan)
• 24 July: The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovric (Michelle Lovric)
• 31 July: Hidden Child by Camilla Lackberg (HarperCollins)
• 7 August: The Radleys by Matt Haig (Canongate)
• 14 August: Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson (Hodder)

The Summer Read series of the TV Book Club was broadcast from 26 June to 14 August.

The celebrity presenters for the series were once again Dave Spikey, Jo Brand, Laila Rouass, Meera Syal and Ade Edmondson.

TV Book Club Summer Read 2010

The 2010 series of the TV Book Club Summer Read was broadcast from 27 June to 15 August.

The 8 featured titles (in order of transmission) were:

The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Penguin)
The Man Who Disappeared by Clare Morrall (Hodder)
The Legacy by Katherine Webb (Orion)
The Bed I Made by Lucie Whitehouse (Bloomsbury)
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears (Random House)
Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan (Macmillan)
The Devil's Acre by Matthew Plamplin (HarperCollins)
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf (Mira)

Doctor Who: Dead Air by James Goss, read by David Tennant (AudioGO) was crowned Best Audiobook of the Year 2010 in a public vote hosted by The Audiobook Store.

A panel of audio experts selected their 20 Best Audiobooks of the Year, based on all-round quality. There were representatives of many genres and a mixture of abridged and unabridged titles.

The full list of featured titles can be viewed here.

Promotional packs were available for libraries interested in running this promotion from The Reading Agency shop.

Best Audiobooks of the Year 2009

The 20 Best Audio Books of the Year promotion ran from 25 June to September 2009. A panel of audio experts made this fantastic selection, based on the criteria of all-round quality. There are representatives from every genre and almost every publisher. Some unabridged titles are included, but the majority are abridged.

A booklist of the 20 Best Audio Books of the Year can viewed here.

The shortlists were announced on 19 August:

CWA Gold Dagger Award 2011

• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (Pan)
• Snowdrops by A.D Miller (Atlantic Books)
• The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina (Orion)
• The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Orion)

CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2011 Award

• Before I Go To Sleep by S.J Watson (Doubleday)
• Cold Rain by Craig Smith (Myrmidon)
• The Good Son by Michael Gruber (Corvus)
• The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Orion)
• The Trinity Six by Charles Cumming (HarperCollins)

CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2011 Award

• Before I Go To Sleep by S.J Watson (Doubleday)
• Kiss Me Quick by Danny Miller (Robinson)
• The Dead Woman of Juárez by Sam Hawken (Serpent's Tail)
• The Dogs of Rome by Conor Fitzgerald (Bloomsbury)
• The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly (Hodder)

The longlists for each of the three categories were announced on Friday 22 July. You can also see the full list with ISBNs and read the press release.

The 2011 season documentary series, THE A to Z OF CRIME, commenced on Thursday 1 September at 9.00pm on ITV3.

In the lead-up to the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2011, the public will get the chance to vote for the ITV3 People's Bestseller Dagger online at www.itv.com/crimethrillerawards. The winner will be presented with their award at the awards ceremony on 7 October.

The nominated authors for the ITV3 PEOPLE'S BESTSELLER DAGGER 2011 are:

• David Baldacci - The Sixth Man (Macmillan)
• Lee Child - Worth Dying For (Bantam)
• Mark Billingham - Good As Dead (Little, Brown)
• Peter James - Dead Man's Grip (Macmillan)
• Peter Robinson - Before the Poison (Hodder)

The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010

In 2010, we ran a Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards promotion. Please click here to see a full list of the shortlists and the finalists.

The winners of The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010 were:

CWA GOLD DAGGER 2010 (BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR)

Blacklands by Belinda Bauer (Corgi)

CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2010 (BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR)

A Loyal Spy by Simon Conway (Hodder & Stoughton)

CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 2010 (BEST NEW AUTHOR OF THE YEAR)

Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn (Pan Macmillan)

The winner of the People's Detective, which honoured the most popular fictional detective of all time, and was the only award voted for by ITV3 viewers, was revealed as Foyle.

Research shows that reading improves mental health and well-being. The Reading Agency teamed up with BBC Headroom to work with reading groups around the country to review and identify a selection of Mood-boosting Books. The books chosen by the groups made up a booklist, which formed the centre of the promotion, and the booklist was supplemented with promotional material.

The promotion was aimed at all adults, particularly those who might have experienced mild mental-health conditions linked to stress, anxiety and depression. All the books on the reading list were around creative reading - mainly fiction, with some non-fiction and poetry.

The promotion launched in libraries on World Mental Health Day on 10 October and ran until January.

If you would like to know more about the promotion, please email moodboosting@readingagency.org.uk.

The Reading Agency would like to thank the following reading groups for participating in the project:

• The Tuesday Group, Portsmouth
• East Boldon Tuesday Reading Group, South Tyneside
• Hendon Book Chat Group, Sunderland
• Washington Mind Book Chat Group, Sunderland
• Maida Vale Library Reading Group, London Borough of Westminster

We would also like to thank Charley Baker, University Teacher in Mental Health at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy at the University of Nottingham for endorsing the titles on the booklist.

Please visit the Madness and Literature Network website where you can join the network and gain free access to further information about developments in health humanities at Nottingham University, events and seminars. You can also access tools such as the madness and literature database of peer-reviewed books.