1. Ryde Library.
Ryde Libaray Online databases-- look in Arts and Literature - numerous sources here by author or title and Award winners.
http://library.ryde.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/OPAC/ODBS
2. The Big Read - 100 top listed books to read from the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml
3. This is a list of authors who have won or been shortlisted for major prizes and awards.
Most of these lists have come from the following site - so by clicking on their name you will find details of that author. This list is only a small selection from this site and sometimes the list is not up to date or complete. Its a useful list nevertheless.
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/awards/?&skip=500
Best of the Booker
2008: Pat Barker The Ghost Road2008: Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda (shortlist)
2008: J. M. Coetzee Disgrace (shortlist)
2008: Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist (shortlist)
2008: Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
Booker Prize for Fiction
1971: Doris Lessing Briefing for a Descent into Hell (shortlist)1971: V. S. Naipaul In a Free State
1972: David Storey Pasmore (shortlist)
1973: Beryl Bainbridge The Dressmaker (shortlist)
1974: Beryl Bainbridge The Bottle Factory Outing (shortlist)
1974: Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist (joint winner)
1976: David Storey Saville
1976: André Brink An Instant in the Wind (shortlist)
1977: Paul Bailey Peter Smart's Confessions (shortlist)
1977: Penelope Lively The Road to Lichfield (shortlist)
1977: Jennifer Johnston Shadows on our Skin (shortlist)
1978: Jane Gardam God on the Rocks (shortlist)
1978: André Brink Rumours of Rain (shortlist)
1979: Fay Weldon Praxis (shortlist)
1980: Anita Desai Clear Light of Day (shortlist)
1980: Barry Unsworth Pascali's Island (shortlist)
1980: Alice Munro Who Do You Think You Are?: Stories (shortlist)
1981: Doris Lessing The Sirian Experiments (shortlist)
1981: Ian McEwan The Comfort of Strangers (shortlist)
1981: Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
1982: Timothy Mo Sour Sweet (shortlist)
1982: William Boyd An Ice-Cream War (shortlist)
1983: Graham Swift Waterland (shortlist)
1983: J. M. Coetzee Life & Times of Michael K
1983: Salman Rushdie Shame (shortlist)
1983: John Fuller Flying to Nowhere (shortlist)
1984: Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac
1984: David Lodge Small World (shortlist)
1984: Anita Desai In Custody (shortlist)
1984: Julian Barnes Flaubert's Parrot (shortlist)
1984: Penelope Lively According to Mark (shortlist)
1985: Doris Lessing The Good Terrorist (shortlist)
1985: Peter Carey Illywhacker (shortlist)
1986: Paul Bailey Gabriel's Lament (shortlist)
1986: Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World (shortlist)
1986: Timothy Mo An Insular Possession (shortlist)
1987: Penelope Lively Moon Tiger
1987: Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale (shortlist)
1988: Peter Ackroyd Chatterton (shortlist)
1988: Marina Warner The Lost Father (shortlist)
1988: Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses (shortlist)
1988: Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda
1989: John Banville The Book of Evidence (shortlist)
1989: David Lodge Nice Work (shortlist)
1989: Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
1989: Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye (shortlist)
1989: James Kelman A Disaffection (shortlist)
1990: Beryl Bainbridge An Awfully Big Adventure (shortlist)
1990: A. S. Byatt Possession: A Romance
1990: Rose Tremain Restoration (shortlist)
1991: Martin Amis Time's Arrow (shortlist)
1991: Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey (shortlist)
1991: Timothy Mo The Redundancy of Courage (shortlist)
1991: Ben Okri The Famished Road
1992: Tibor Fischer Under the Frog (shortlist)
1992: Christopher Hope Serenity House (shortlist)
1992: Patrick McCabe The Butcher Boy (shortlist)
1992: Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger (joint winner)
1992: Michèle Roberts Daughters of the House (shortlist)
1992: Michael Ondaatje The English Patient (joint winner)
1993: Caryl Phillips Crossing the River (shortlist)
1993: Michael Ignatieff Scar Tissue (shortlist)
1994: Romesh Gunesekera Reef (shortlist)
1994: Abdulrazak Gurnah Paradise (shortlist)
1994: Alan Hollinghurst The Folding Star (shortlist)
1994: James Kelman How late it was, how late
1994: David Malouf Remembering Babylon (shortlist)
1995: Pat Barker The Ghost Road
1995: Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh (shortlist)
1995: Barry Unsworth Morality Play (shortlist)
1995: Tim Winton The Riders (shortlist)
1996: Beryl Bainbridge Every Man For Himself (shortlist)
1996: Graham Swift Last Orders
1996: Shena Mackay The Orchard on Fire (shortlist)
1996: Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance (shortlist)
1996: Margaret Atwood Alias Grace (shortlist)
1997: Tim Parks Europa (shortlist)
1997: Jim Crace Quarantine (shortlist)
1997: Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes (shortlist)
1998: Beryl Bainbridge Master Georgie (shortlist)
1998: Ian McEwan Amsterdam
1998: Julian Barnes England, England (shortlist)
1998: Patrick McCabe Breakfast on Pluto (shortlist)
1999: Andrew O'Hagan Our Fathers (shortlist)
Booker Prize for Fiction
1999: Michael Frayn Headlong (shortlist)1999: J. M. Coetzee Disgrace
1999: Colm Tóibín The Blackwater Lightship (shortlist)
1999: Anita Desai Fasting, Feasting (shortlist)
1999: Ahdaf Soueif The Map of Love (shortlist)
1999: Jim Crace Being Dead (shortlist)
2000: Kazuo Ishiguro When We Were Orphans (shortlist)
2000: Trezza Azzopardi The Hiding Place (shortlist)
2000: Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin
2000: Matthew Kneale English Passengers (shortlist)
2001: Ali Smith Hotel World (shortlist)
2001: Andrew Miller Oxygen (shortlist)
2001: Ian McEwan Atonement (shortlist)
2001: Rachel Seiffert The Dark Room (shortlist)
2001: Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang
Man Booker Prize for Fiction
2003: Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake (shortlist)2003: Damon Galgut The Good Doctor (shortlist)
2003: Clare Morrall Astonishing Splashes of Colour (shortlist)
2003: DBC Pierre Vernon God Little
2003: Zoe Heller Notes on a Scandal (shortlist)
2004: Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty
2004: David Mitchell Cloud Atlas (shortlist)
2004: Colm Tóibín The Master (shortlist)
2004: Sarah Hall The Electric Michelangelo (shortlist)
2004: Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire (shortlist)
2004: Achmat Dangor Bitter Fruit (shortlist)
2004: Gerard Woodward I'll Go To Bed At Noon (shortlist)
2005: Sebastian Barry A Long Long Way (shortlist)
2005: Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go (shortlist)
2005: Julian Barnes Arthur and George (shortlist)
2005: John Banville The Sea
2005: Ali Smith The Accidental (shortlist)
2005: Zadie Smith On Beauty (shortlist)
2006: Sarah Waters The Night Watch (shortlist)
2006: Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
2006: Kate Grenville The Secret River (shortlist)
2006: M. J. Hyland Carry Me Down (shortlist)
2006: Edward St Aubyn Mother's Milk (shortlist)
2007: Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach (shortlist)
2007: Lloyd Jones Mister Pip (shortlist)
2007: Nicola Barker Darkmans (shortlist)
2007: Anne Enright The Gathering
2007: Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist (shortlist)
2007: Indra Sinha Animal's People (shortlist)
2008: Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture (shortlist)
2008: Linda Grant The Clothes on Their Backs (shortlist)
2008: Philip Hensher The Northern Clemency (shortlist)
2009: Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
2009: A. S. Byatt The Children's Book (shortlist)
2009: Sarah Waters The Little Stranger (shortlist)
2009: Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze (shortlist)
2009: J. M. Coetzee Summertime (shortlist)
2009: Simon Mawer The Glass Room (shortlist)
British Book Awards Author of the Year
1994: Sebastian Faulks1995: Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh
1997: Louis de Bernières
2001: Philip Pullman
2002: Sarah Waters Fingersmith
2003: Hari Kunzru The Impressionist (shortlist)
2003: DBC Pierre (shortlist)
2003: Jacqueline Wilson (shortlist)
2003: Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (shortlist)
2003: Philip Pullman (shortlist)
2004: Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
2005: Alan Hollinghurst (shortlist)
2005: Alexander McCall Smith (shortlist)
2006: John Banville The Sea (shortlist)
2006: Alan Bennett Untold Stories
2006: Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go (shortlist)
2007: Marina Lewycka (shortlist)
2007: Kate Mosse (shortlist)
2008: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (shortlist)
2008: Doris Lessing (shortlist)
2008: Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach
2008: David Peace (shortlist)
Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book)
1991: David Malouf The Great World1992: Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey
1994: Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy
1995: Louis de Bernières Captain Corelli's Mandolin
1996: Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance
1997: Earl Lovelace Salt
1998: Peter Carey Jack Maggs
2000: J. M. Coetzee Disgrace
2001: Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang
2002: Richard Flanagan Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
2003: Caryl Phillips A Distant Shore
2005: Andrea Levy Small Island
2005: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus
Costa Novel Award
2006: William Boyd Restless2006: Mark Haddon A Spot of Bother (shortlist)
2006: David Mitchell Black Swan Green (shortlist)
2007: Rose Tremain The Road Home (shortlist)
2007: A. L. Kennedy Day
2007: Neil Bartlett Skin Lane (shortlist)
2008: Louis de Bernières A Partisan's Daughter (shortlist)
2009: Colm Tóibín Brooklyn
2009: Hilary Mantel Wold Hall (shortlist)
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
1980: Gillian Cross The Iron Way (shortlist)1983: Anita Desai The Village by the Sea
1983: Gillian Cross The Dark Behind the Curtain (shortlist)
1984: Anne Fine The Granny Project (shortlist)
1987: Anne Fine Madame Doubtfire (shortlist)
1988: Geraldine McCaughrean A Pack of Lies
1990: Anne Fine Goggle-Eyes
1990: Gillian Cross Wolf (shortlist)
1992: Hilary McKay The Exiles
1992: Jamila Gavin The Wheel of Surya (special runner-up)
1992: Rachel Anderson Paper Faces
1993: Terry Pratchett (shortlist)
1994: Jamila Gavin The Eye of the Horse (shortlist)
1996: Philip Pullman Northern Lights (joint winner)
1996: Alison Prince The Sherwood Hero (joint winner)
1997: Melvin Burgess Junk
1997: Terry Pratchett (shortlist)
1997: Jamila Gavin The Track of the Wind (shortlist)
1997: Keith Gray Creepers (shortlist)
1998: J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (shortlist)
1999: David Almond Kit's Wilderness (shortlist)
1999: J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (shortlist)
2000: Jacqueline Wilson The Illustrated Mum
2000: J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (shortlist)
2001: Celia Rees Witch Child (shortlist)
2001: Kevin Crossley-Holland The Seeing Stone
2002: Sonya Hartnett Thursday's Child
2002: Marcus Sedgwick The Dark Horse (shortlist)
2002: Keith Gray Warehouse (shortlist)
2003: David Almond The Fire Eaters (shortlist)
2003: Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2003: Marcus Sedgwick The Book of Dead Days (shortlist)
2004: Ann Turnbull No Shame, No Fear (shortlist)
2004: Meg Rosoff How I Live Now
2005: Kate Thompson The New Policeman
2006: Philip Reeve A Darkling Plain
2008: Frank Cottrell Boyce Cosmic (shortlist)
2008: Patrick Ness The Knife of Never Letting Go
2009: Mal Peet Exposure
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
1996: David Malouf Remembering Babylon1997: Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance (shortlist)
1998: Michael Hofmann The Land of Green Plums (for translation)
1998: Margaret Atwood Alias Grace (shortlist)
1999: Andrew Miller Ingenious Pain
1999: Jim Crace Being Dead (shortlist)
2000: Jackie Kay Trumpet (shortlist)
2000: Nicola Barker Wide Open
2001: Colm Tóibín The Blackwater Lightship (shortlist)
2001: Andrew O'Hagan Our Fathers (shortlist)
2002: Meja Mwangi The Last Plague (nominated)
2002: Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin (shortlist)
2002: Patrick Gale Rough Music (shortlist)
2003: Achmat Dangor Bitter Fruit (shortlist)
2004: Rohinton Mistry Family Matters (shortlist)
2004: Maggie Gee The White Family (shortlist)
2004: William Boyd Any Human Heart (shortlist)
2005: Damon Galgut The Good Doctor (shortlist)
2005: Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire (shortlist)
2005: Julie Myerson Something Might Happen
2005: Susan Elderkin The Voices (shortlist)
2006: Colm Tóibín The Master
2006: Ronan Bennett Havoc, in its Third Year (shortlist)
2006: Jonathan Coe The Closed Circle
2006: Nadeem Aslam Maps for Lost Lovers (shortlist)
2007: Salman Rushdie Shalimar The Clown (shortlist)
2007: Julian Barnes Arthur and George (shortlist)
2007: Sebastian Barry A Long Long Way (shortlist)
2007: J. M. Coetzee Slow Man (shortlist)
2008: Patrick McCabe Winterwood (shortlist)
2009: Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist (shortlist)
2009: Indra Sinha Animal's People (shortlist)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction)
2000: Zadie Smith White Teeth
2000: Trezza Azzopardi The Hiding Place (shortlist)
2001: Ian McEwan Atonement (shortlist)
2001: David Mitchell number9dream (shortlist)
2002: John Lanchester Fragrant Harbour
2002: Rohinton Mistry Family Matters (shortlist)
2002: William Trevor The Story of Lucy Gault (shortlist)
2003: Andrew O'Hagan Personality
2004: David Peace GB84
2004: Suhayl Saadi Psychoraag (shortlist)
2006: André Brink Praying Mantis (shortlist)
2006: Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go (shortlist)
2006: Ian McEwan Saturday
2006: Ali Smith The Accidental (shortlist)
2007: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun (shortlist)
2007: Alice Munro The View from Castle Rock (shortlist)
2007: James Lasdun Seven Lies (shortlist)
2007: Sarah Waters The Night Watch (shortlist)
2008: Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist (shortlist)
2008: John Burnside The Devil's Footprints (shortlist)
2009: Adam Mars-Jones Pilcrow (shortlist)
2009: Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture
Kate Greenaway Medal childrens
1963: John Burningham Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers1966: Raymond Briggs The Mother Goose Treasury
1970: John Burningham Mr Gumpy's Outing
1973: Raymond Briggs Father Christmas
1980: Quentin Blake Mister Magnolia
1982: Michael Foreman Long Neck and Thunder Foot
1982: Michael Foreman Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
1983: Anthony Browne Gorilla
1989: Michael Foreman War Boy: A Country Childhood
1990: Tony Ross Dr Xargle's Book of Earth Tiggers (shortlist)
1992: Anthony Browne Zoo
1993: Michael Foreman War Game (shortlist)
1995: Patrick Benson The Little Boat by Kathy Henderson (shortlist)
1995: Quentin Blake Clown (shortlist)
1997: Charlotte Voake Ginger (shortlist)
1998: Emma Chichester Clark I Love You, Blue Kangaroo! (shortlist)
1999: Patrick Benson The Sea-Thing Child by Russell Hoban (shortlist)
1999: Lauren Child Clarice Bean, That's Me (shortlist)
2000: Lauren Child Beware of the Storybook Wolves (shortlist)
2000: Lauren Child I Will Not Ever, NEVER Eat A Tomato
2005: Oliver Jeffers Lost and Found (shortlist)
2009: Oliver Jeffers The Way Back Home (shortlist)
Miles Franklin Award (Australia)
1979: Peter Carey War Crimes1981: Peter Carey Bliss
1984: Tim Winton Shallows
1989: Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda
1991: Tim Winton Cloudstreet
1994: David Malouf Remembering Babylon
1995: Kate Grenville Dark Places (shortlist)
1998: Peter Carey Jack Maggs
2001: Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang (shortlist)
2001: Matthew Kneale English Passengers (shortlist)
2002: Tim Winton Dirt Music
2003: Sonya Hartnett Of A Boy (shortlist)
2003: Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire
2006: Kate Grenville The Secret River (shortlist)
2009: Tim Winton Breath
2009: Richard Flanagan Wanting (shortlist)
Orange Prize for Fiction
1996: Helen Dunmore A Spell of Winter1998: Pauline Melville The Ventriloquist's Tale (shortlist)
1999: Laura Hird Born Free (shortlist)
2000: Linda Grant When I Lived in Modern Times
2001: Ali Smith Hotel World (shortlist)
2001: Zadie Smith White Teeth (shortlist)
2001: Jill Dawson Fred and Edie (Shortlist)
2001: Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin (shortlist)
2001: Kate Grenville The Secret River
2002: Maggie Gee The White Family (shortlist)
2002: Helen Dunmore The Siege (shortlist)
2002: Sarah Waters Fingersmith (shortlist)
2003: Shena Mackay Heligoland (shortlist)
2003: Zadie Smith The Autograph Man (shortlist)
2004: Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake (shortlist)
2004: Andrea Levy Small Island
2004: Gillian Slovo Ice Road (shortlist)
2004: Rose Tremain The Colour (shortlist)
2004: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus (shortlist)
2005: Jane Gardam Old Filth
2005: Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (shortlist)
2005: Joolz Denby Billie Morgan (shortlist)
2006: Ali Smith The Accidental (shortlist)
2006: Zadie Smith On Beauty
2006: Sarah Waters The Night Watch (shortlist)
2006: Hilary Mantel Beyond Black (shortlist)
2007: Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss (shortlist)
2007: Rachel Cusk Arlington Park (shortlist)
2008: Rose Tremain The Road Home
2009: Kamila Shamsie Burnt Shadows (shortlist)
Red House Children's Book Award
1981: Quentin Blake Mister Magnolia (Overall Winner)1992: Elizabeth Laird Kiss the Dust (Overall Winner)
1993: Jacqueline Wilson The Suitcase Kid (Overall Winner)
1996: Jacqueline Wilson Double Act (Overall Winner)
1997: Jeremy Strong The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog (Overall Winner)
1998: Jacqueline Wilson The Lottie Project (shortlist)
1998: Jeremy Strong My Granny's Great Escape (shortlist)
1999: Jacqueline Wilson Girls Under Pressure (shortlist)
2000: Jacqueline Wilson The Illustrated Mum (shortlist)
2000: Michael Morpurgo Kensuke's Kingdom (Overall Winner)
2002: Jeremy Strong My Mum's Going to Explode (shortlist)
2003: Anthony Horowitz Skeleton Key (Overall Winner)
2003: Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (shortlist)
2004: Michael Morpurgo Private Peaceful (Overall Winner)
2004: Jacqueline Wilson Lola Rose (shortlist)
2004: Anne Fine The More The Merrier (shortlist Younger Readers category)
2005: Lauren Child Clarice Bean Spells Trouble (shortlist Younger Readers category)
2005: Jacqueline Wilson Best Friends
2006: Sherry Ashworth Paralysed (shortlist)
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