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WH Smith Book Awards 2004

Shortlists

By Mark Flanagan, About.com

Fiction

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  • Dancer by Colum McCann
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
  • Nobody True by James Herbert
  • A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin

Debut Novel

  • Brick Lane by Monica Ali
  • Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro
  • Starter For Ten by David Nicholls
  • Stripped Bare by Lowri Turner
  • Tietam Brown by Mick Foley

Lifestyle

  • The Delia Collection, Chocolate/Soup/Fish/Chicken by Delia Smith
  • How Clean Is Your House? by Kim and Aggy
  • How to be Gardener by Book 2 Alan Titchmarsh
  • The Million Pound Property Experiment by Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan
  • Wild Down Under by Neil Nightingale

Autobiography/Biography

  • According to The Rolling Stones by Jagger; Richards; Watts; Wood
  • Forever Young by Jimmy Young
  • Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness by Randy Taraborelli
  • A Royal Duty by Paul Burrell
  • Toast by Nigel Slater

Travel Writing

  • Everest by Stephen Venables
  • It's Not about the Tapas by Polly Evans
  • Swahili for the Broken-Hearted by Peter Moore
  • The Teatime Islands by Ben Fogel
  • Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered by Geoff Dyer

Business

  • Branded by Alissa Quart
  • Go: an airline adventure by Barbara Cassani
  • Good Business by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Life Lessons from History's Heroes by Anthony Jackson
  • The Seven-Day Weekend by Ricardo Semler

Factual

  • Corsets to Camouflage by Kate Adie
  • Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore
  • Empire by Niall Ferguson
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  • Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey

Teen Choice

  • The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
  • Pirates! by Celia Rees
  • Predator's Gold by Philip Reeve
  • Stravaganza: City of Stars by Mary Hoffman
  • The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

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