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The children's book of the year award went to Artemis Fowl, described as 'Die Hard with fairies' by its author Eoin Colfer, and the prize for best audio book was won by The Laying On Of Hands, written and read by Alan Bennett.

The award for non-fiction book of the year went to Lars Mytting and Robert Ferguson's guide to wood-chopping, Norwegian Wood, a title which organisers said "demonstrated great publisher faith and vision", while best children's book was won by David Solomons's My Brother is a Superhero.

How the glory of the iPad Picture Book is winning over the hearts of today's digital-native children.

Published next month and edited by the journalist and biographer Anthony Holden and his film-producer son, Ben, the book is winning praise for introducing male readers to unfamiliar works – and emotions.

The Quentin Blake drawings that usually adorn Dahl's books are winning — their loose style softened Dahl's sharpness and emphasized his silly humor.

These books are winning the raves of customers around the United States.

This year's William Hill sports book award was won by Geoffrey C Ward for Unforgivable Blackness (Pimlico £8.99, pp512).

Last year's first book award was won by Mark McWatt's Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement.

Last year's best first book award was won by Mark McWatt's Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement.

The first book award was won by Hisham Matar with In the Country of Men, which had also been shortlisted for the Booker prize.

The longer novel winner was JK Rowling for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Bloomsbury, £4.99) while the picture book category was won by Nicholas Allen for Demon Teddy Hutchinsonn, £9.99).