The British Book Awards 2006 from Channel4.com

Amazon Biography of the Year

And the WINNER is: Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography by Sharon Osbourne (Time Warner)
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A national treasure, a mother / daughter relationship, a long-suffering wife and a homeless man vie for the honours...

The final shortlist was:

Margrave of the Marshes
John Peel & Sheila Ravenscroft (Bantam Press)

Next to You
Gloria Hunniford (Michael Joseph)

Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography
Sharon Osbourne (Time Warner)

Stuart: A Life Backwards
Alexander Masters (Fourth Estate)

British Book Awards 2005
1 Apr 2006, 6.00pm

Repeated on More 4
2 Apr 2006, 5.00pm

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