British Book Awards

A book about punctuation, an unlikely best seller in any year, won the top prize Wednesday at the British Book Awards ceremonies.Soccer mega-star David Beckham won a special prize for the scale of success of his ghostwritten autobiography, My Side. The book sold 103,000 copies in its first week and has sold more than one million copies so far. Unfortunately, Madonna, who was nominated for Children’s Book of the Year with her first children’s book “The English Roses” walked empty handed, losing to Mark Haddon‘s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Source: ReutersAdditional Comments: LiQue.