The Branford Boase Award for authors and their editors
The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition for young writers

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Previous Winners

2009 Winner



B. R. Collins - The Traitor Game

Emma Matthewson (ed)

Bloomsbury

The Other 2009 Nominees

The Toymaker by Jeremy de Quidt, edited by Bella Pearson (David Fickling Books)


Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls, edited by Marion Lloyd (Scholastic / (Marion Lloyd Books)


The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, edited by Denise Johnstone-Burt (Walker Books)


Bloodline by Katy Moran, edited by Denise Johnstone-Burt ( Walker Books)


Between Two Seas by Marie-Louise Jensen, edited by Liz Cross (Oxford University Press)

Flood Child originally published as Reavers' Ransom by Emily Diamand, edited by Imogen Cooper (Chicken House)
 


2008 Winner



Jenny Downham - Before I Die

David Fickling (ed)

David Fickling Books

The Other 2008 Nominees

Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine, edited by Stella Paskins (HarperCollins) Highly Commended

Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke, edited by Averil Whitehouse ( Walker)

Nathan Fox,
Dangerous Times by L Brittney, edited by Rachel Denwwod
(Macmillan)

Waves by Sharon Dogar, edited by Barry Cunningham (Chicken House)

The Door of No Return by Sarah Mussi, edited by Beverley Birch (Hodder)


2007 Winner



Siobhan Dowd - A Swift Pure Cry

David Fickling and Bella Pearson (ed)

David Fickling Books

The Other 2007 Nominees  Gideon the


2006 Winner



Frances Hardinge - Fly By Night

Ruth Alltimes (ed)

Macmillan

The Other 2006 Nominees  Century by


2005 Winner



Meg Rosoff - How I Live Now

Rebecca McNally (ed)

Puffin


The Other 2005 Nominees  Unique by


2004 Winner


Mal Peet - Keeper

Paul Harrison (ed)

Walker

The Other 2004 Nominees  The Various


2003 Winner




Kevin Brooks - Martyn Pig

Barry Cunningham (ed)

Chicken House

The Other 2003 Nominees

Massive
by Julia Bell, edited by Sarah Davies (Macmillan)

I
ce Boy by Patricia Elliott, edited by Jon Appleton (Hodder)

The Firing by Richard MacSween, edited by Audrey Adams (Andersen)

Frank and the Black Hamster of Narkiz by Livi Michael, edited by Rebecca McNally (Puffin)

The Quigleys by Simon Mason, edited by David Fickling/Bella Pearson (David Fickling Books)

Feather Boy by Nicky Singer, edited by Lucy Courtenay (HarperCollins)

 


2002 Winner


Sally Prue - Cold Tom

Liz Cross (ed)

OUP

The Other 2002 Nominees

Jessica Haggerthwaite – witch dispatcher by Emma Barnes, edited by Emma Matthewsob (Bloomsbury)

The Beat Goes On by Adelen Minchin, edited by Audrey Adams (Women’s Press)

(Un)arranged Marriage by Bali Rai, edited by Sue Cook/Annie Eaton (Corgi)

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve, edited by Kirsty Skidmore (Scholastic)


2001 Winner


Marcus Sedgwick - Floodland

Fiona Kennedy (ed)

Orion

The Other 2001 Nominees  Control Shift

Thanis by Hazel Riley, edited by Ron Heapy (OUP)

Wind Singer by William Nicholson, edited by Cally Poplak (Egmont)


2000 Winner


Katherine Roberts - Song Quest

Barry Cunningham (ed)

Chicken House

The Other 2000 Nominees

Hunting Gumnor
by Stephen Pots, edited by Miriam Hodgson (Egmont)
 

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison, edited by Brenda Gardner/Judith Evans (Piccadilly)
 

Can we keep it, Dad? by Gus Clarke, edited by Janice Thomson (Andersen Press)
 

Troublemakers by Paul May, edited by Sue Cook (Transworld)
 

The Giant Goldfish Robbery by Richard Kidd, edited by Annie Eaton/Alex Antscherl (Transworld)
 

Sharp Stuff by Dominic Barker, edited by Annie Eaton/ Alex Antscherl (Transworld).

 

Branford Boase Award 2010

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