New Talent Award
Romance Reader Awards 2011
Real readers decided which are the best romantic novels published in the past year.
Reader Award for Best Romantic Read - for contemporary set romantic novels of any genre - sponsored by Total-E-Bound
Winner - Love and Freedom by Sue Moorcroft (Choc Lit)
Shortlisted - Persuade Me by Juliet Archer (Choc Lit)
Swept Off Her Stilettos by Fiona Harper (Mills and Boon Riva)
Wrapped Up In You by Carole Matthews (Sphere)
The Hating Game by Talli Roland (Prospera Publishing)
Reader Award for Best Historical Read - for historical set (pre-1961) romantic novels of any genre, including time-slip novels where the majority of the action is historical - sponsored by Choc Lit
Winner - Perhaps Tomorrow by Jean Fullerton (Orion)
Shortlisted - The Apothecary's Daughter by Charlotte Betts (Piatkus)
Captain Corcoran's Hoyden Bride by Annie Burrows (Mills and Boon Historical Regency)
The Scarlet Kimono by Christina Courtenay (Choc Lit)
The Kydd Inheritance by Jan Jones (Robert Hale)
New Talent Award 2011
The New Talent Award aims to cast the spotlight on the authors of tomorrow and is open to all writers attending the festival who have not yet had a novel published. The award judges were Donna Condon, senior commissioning editor at Piatkus (Little, Brown) and Jane Judd, literary agent at Jane Judd Literary Agency.
The award winner was Henriette Gyland. Runners-up were Rosemary Dun, Sarah Callejo and Debbie White.
Hall of Fame
The Hall of Fame aims to recognise outstanding achievement in the field of romantic fiction.
An Hall of Fame Award was given to a much loved British author of over 20 novels who has sold 3.5 million books worldwide - Carole Matthews.
A second Hall of Fame Award was given to a publisher who began publishing over 100 years ago and who has contributed so much to shaping and promoting the romantic fiction genre - Harlequin Mills and Boon.
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