JK Rowling picked up the Book People Outstanding Achievement Award for the Harry Potter series.
The evening's other winners were:
Richard & Judy Best Read Of The Year
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini Winner
Random Acts Of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann
The Rose Of Sebastopol - Katharine McMahon
A Quiet Belief In Angels - RJ Ellory
Notes From An Exhibition - Patrick Gale
Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
The Visible World - Mark Slouka
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
Blood River - Tim Butcher
The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies
Waterstone's Newcomer Of The Year
Catherine O'Flynn - What Was Lost Winner
Rajiv Chandrasekaran - Imperial Life In The Emerald City
Stef Penney - The Tenderness Of Wolves
Paul Torday - Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
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Well done Ms Rowling! She has turned her writing talent into a mult-million pound empire. We should all be proud of her she is British and doing really well.
Love the colour of her dress.
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