British Book Awards

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 117. Chapters: British Book Award winners, British Book Award winning works, Spike Milligan, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Terry Pratchett, Salman Rushdie, Philip Pullman, Bill Bryson, Nigella Lawson, David Attenborough, Alan Bennett, Beryl Bainbridge, Bridget Jones's Diary, Anne Fine, Sharon Osbourne, John Mortimer, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Trinny Woodall, Susannah Constantine, The Da Vinci Code, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Jamie Oliver, Susanna Clarke, Northern Lights, Sarah Waters, Catherine Cookson, Delia Smith, The Amber Spyglass, Artemis Fowl, Wilbur Smith, Alexander McCall Smith, Zadie Smith, Jilly Cooper, Raymond Briggs, Peter Mayle, Cloud Atlas, Louis de Berni res, Andrew Morton, Bryce Courtenay, Monica Ali, Wild Swans, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Allison Pearson, My Life, Pete McCarthy, Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!, Maeve Binchy, Hari Kunzru, Kate Atkinson, Chris Stewart, Sebastian Faulks, The Constant Gardener, Labyrinth, The Mousehole Cat, British Children's Book of the Year, British Book of the Year, British Newcomer of the Year, British Illustrated Children's Book of the Year, British Children's Author of the Year. Excerpt: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling and featuring Harry Potter, a young wizard. It describes how Harry discovers he is a wizard, makes close friends and a few enemies at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and with the help of his friends thwarts an attempted comeback by the evil wizard Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents when Harry was one year old. The book was published on 30 June 1997 by Bloomsbury in London, while in 1998 Scholastic Corporation published an edition for the United States market under the title Harry Pott...