Booker of the Year (Best Book)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Blooper of the Year (Worst Book)
Memories of my Melancholy Whores
Best Discussion
Gate of Angels
Most Disappointing Book of Promise
Westwood & Memories of my Melancholy Whores
Biggest Improver
Shantaram
Most Apt Venue of the Year
Lowndes Bar & Kitchen at the Jumeirah Lowndes (Westwood)
Best Venue of the Year (Food)
Shantaram (Roti Chai)
Best Moment (Yay!)
Northern Lights (Polar bears in armour and witch romances!)
Best Moment (Eek!)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (A witch burrowing into foot!)
Best Nice Character (Male)
Iorek Byrnison (Northern Lights)
Best Nice Character (Female)
The Hempstock Women (The Ocean at the End of the Lane)
Best Bad Character (Male)
Gerard Challis (Westwood)
Best Bad Character (Female)
Mrs. Coulter (Northern Lights)
Worst Food
B Bar (The Ocean at the End of the Lane)
Dishonourable Mention (Blooper of Bloopers)
Spring Snow (Still)
Honourable Mention (Booker of Bookers)
To be decided
2013 - The Year of Ties
Book of the Year:
Sense of an Ending and Bring Up the Bodies.
Blooper of the Year:
MR James Collected Ghost Stories
Most Disappointing Book:
MR James Collected Ghost Stories and Tender is the Night
Best debate:
How to be a Woman
Best Sommelier:
Code of the Woosters (Sartoria)
Worst Hangover:
Code of the Woosters (Sartoria)
Most Apt Venue:
Bring up The Bodies (The Perkin Reveller at the Tower of London) and MR James Collected Ghost Stories (The Grenadier)
Least Apt Venue:
City of Thieves (Yauatcha to discuss the siege of Leningrad)
Favourite Character:
Jeeves (nicest); Van Helsing (sexiest)
Least Favourite Character:
Dick, Laurent and Nicole (a popular category this year)
2012 - The Results
Book of the Year:
Great Expectations
Blooper of the Year:
Naked
Best (nicest) character:
Joe, Great Expectations
Best (worst) character:
Ignatious, A Confederacy of Dunces
Most Shocking Moment:
Magwitch in the graveyard with Pip, Great Expectations
Most Disappointing Book of Promise:
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Best Improver:
Giovanni's Room
Best (most apt) venue:
The Clarence, Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Best venue (other):
Aldwych, Great Expectations (for unlimited Prosecco)
Best Members:
Gill and Nic - the "turning up" award
Honourable mention:
"Proud to have finished" - Great Expectations and Titus Groan (not a lot of people can say that)
Dishonourable mention:
"Still the worst book of all time" - Spring Snow
2011 - The Highs and Lows
(recorded with help of contemporaneous notes but still voted for in a slightly drunken haze)
Book of the Year:
City and the City
Blooper of the Year:
The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Blue Bear
Most Shocking Moment:
The skinning alive, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Best (Good) Character:
(Female) The Aunt, Travels With My Aunt (the only unanimous decision of the night)
(Male) Lt. Mamiya, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Best (Bad) Character:
Mr Stoll, Don't Look Now and Other Stories
Most Haunting Moment:
The death of John at the hands of the dwarf, Don't Look Now
Most Disappointing Book of Promise:
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Most Apt Venue:
The Criterion, The City and The City
Best Meal:
Brindisa, Kiss of the Spider Woman
2010 - The Big Winners and Losers
As voted for by us after a big Christmas meal and a few drinks (and remembered hazily after Jen lost the list)
Book of the Year:
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Runner Up:
The Little Stranger
Blooper of the Year:
Vinny Got Blown Away
Most Shocking Moment:
Emma's death, One Day
Best (Nasty) Character:
Lyon Burke, Valley of the Dolls
Best (Good) Character:
Dolores Price, She's Come Undone
Most Thrilling Moment:
The Doctor seeing himself in the window, Little Stranger
Most Apt Venue:
Christophers, The Great Gatsby
Best Meal:
Cigala, For Whom the Bell Tolls
(Other awards lost in the mists of time and alcohol.)