eds note: Not sure if this award is up and running
The shortlist for the adult independent booksellers' book of the year:
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
Spilling the Beans by Clarissa Dickson-Wright
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The shortlist for the children's independent booksellers' book of the year:
The Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore
Running on the Cracks by Julia Donaldson
The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson
Tiddler by Julia Donaldson
Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton
Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire by Derek Landy
Then by Morris Gleitzman
Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
By Royal Command by Charlie Higson
Kaspar by Michael Morpurgo
