Prizes for Scottish Books and Writers in 2006
The Ondaatje Prize
- The People's Act of Love by James Meek
WH Smith Book of the Year Award
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book
- The Secret River by Kate Grenville
National Sporting Clubs Sports Books Award
- Gary Imlach won the Best New Writer award for his biography My Father and Other Working-Class Football Heroes
South Lanarkshire Book Award
- Paralysed by Sherry Ashworth
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Add to BasketHarry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince - Hardback -
£16.99
This novel takes up the story of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Voldemort's power and followers are increasing day by day, in the midst of the battle of good and evil. -
£15.99My Father And Other Working-Class Football Heroes - Hardback -
Stuart Imlach played football in the last days of the maximum wage, when footballers were serfs at the mercy of their clubs and when the men who played the game and those who watched it led fundamentally the same lives in the same communities. His son recaptures that era, barely comprehensible 40 years on, and the way it changed. -
Add to BasketThe People's Act Of Love - Paperback -
£7.99
Siberia, 1919. In the outer reaches of a country recently torn apart by civil war live a small Christian sect and, stationed nearby, a regiment of Czech soldiers. Into this isolated community trudges Samarin, an escapee from Russia's northernmost prison. -
£12.99The Secret River - Paperback -
Following a childhood marked by poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife and children, he arrives in a harsh land to a life that feels like a death sentence.





