Past Winners
- Jeremy Lee - COOKING: Simply and well, for one or many
- Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre - Imperial Wine
- Mo Wilde (John Avery Award) - The Wilderness Cure
- Kate Reid (Special Commendation) - Lune: Croissants All Day, All Night
- Dee Rettali - Baking with Fortitude
- Jasper Morris MW - Inside Burgundy
- Amanda Barnes (John Avery Award) - The South America Wine Guide
- Dan Saladino (Jonathan Cape) (Special Commendation) - Eating to Extinction
- Caroline Eden - Red Sands
- Max Allen - Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia
- Mark Kurlansky (John Avery Award) - Salmon
- Harold McGee (Special Commendation) - Nose Dive
- Josh Niland - The Whole Fish Cookbook: New Ways to Cook, Eat and Think
- Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson - The World Atlas of Wine (8th Edition)
- Tim Anderson (John Avery Award) - Tokyo Stories: A Japanese Cookbook
- Musa Dağdeviren (Special Commendation) - The Turkish Cookbook
- Diana Henry - How to Eat a Peach: Menus, Stories and Places
- Rajat Parr and Jordan Mackay - The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste: A Field Guide to the Great Wines of Europe
- Caroline Eden (John Avery Award) - Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes - Through Darkness and Light
- The Hubb Community Kitchen (Special Commendation) - Together: Our Community Cookbook
- Stephen Harris - The Sportsman
- Peter Liem - Champagne
- Dave Broom (John Avery Award) - The Way of Whisky
- Victoria Moore (Special Commendation) - The Wine Dine Dictionary
- Fuchsia Dunlop - Land of Fish and Rice
- John Szabo MS - Volcanic Wines
- Yemisi Aribisala (John Avery Award) - Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds
- Ruby Tandoh (Special Commendation) - Flavour: Eat What You Love
- Rachel Roddy - Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome
- Suzanne Mustacich - Thirsty Dragon
- Jamie Oliver (John Avery Award) - Everyday Super Food
- Bee Wilson (Special Commendation) - First Bite
- Mark Diacono - A Year at Otter Farm
- Wink Lorch - Jura Wine
- Paul Keers & Charles Jennings (John Avery Award) - Sediment
- Julian Baggini (Special Commendation) - The Virtues of the Table
- Rory O'Connell - Master It
- Bill Nesto and Frances Di Savino - The World of Sicilian Wine
- Simon Hopkinson (John Avery Award) - Simon Hopkinson Cooks
- Maria Elia (Special Commendation) - Smashing Plates
- Caroline Conran - Sud de France
- Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding & José Vouillamoz - Wine Grapes
- Neal Martin (John Avery Award) - Pomerol
- Jason C Anthony (Special Commendation) - Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day and other stories of Antarctic Cuisine
- Dan Lepard - Short and Sweet
- Garrett Oliver (editor) - The Oxford Companion to Beer
- Jesus Barquin, Luis Gutierrez, Victor de la Serna (Special Commendation) - Finest Wines of Rioja
- Niki Segnit - The Flavour Thesaurus
- Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy
- The Edible Series (Special Commendation) - Reaktion Books
- Darina Allen - The Forgotten Skills of Cooking
- Carla Capalbo - Collio
- Richard Wrangham (Special Commendation) - Catching Fire
- Peter Brears - Cooking and Dining in Medieval England
- James Crowden - Ciderland
- Michel Roux (Special Commendation) - Pastry
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Nick Fisher - The River Cottage Fish Book
- John Dickie (special commendation) - Delizia
- Philip Williamson and David Moore - Wine Behind the Label
- Charles Metcalfe and Kathryn McWhirter (special commendation) - The Wine and Food Lovers Guide to Portugal
- Andrew Whitley - Bread Matters
- Stephen Brook - Bordeaux - Medoc and Graves
- Mark Hix (special commendation) - British Regional Food
- Claudia Roden - Arabesque
- Hugh Johnson - Wine: A Life Uncorked
- Katherine Hughes (special commendation) - The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton
- John Livingstone-Learmonth (special commendation) - The Wines of Northern Rhone
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - The River Cottage Meat Book
- Nicholas Faith - Cognac
- Felicity Lawrence (Special Commendation) - Not On the Label
- Charles Clover (Special Commendation) - The End of the Line
- Erik Millstone and Tim Lang - Atlas of Food
- Richard Mayson - The Wines and Vineyards of Portugal
- Nigel Slater (Special Commendation) - Toast
- David Thompson - Thai Food
- Andrew Jefford - The New France
- Colin Spencer (Special Commendation) - British Food
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - The River Cottage Cookbook
- Stephen Skelton - The Wines of Britain and Ireland
- Bennett Alan Weinber and Bonnie K Bealer - The World of Caffeine
- Tom Jaine (Special Award)
- Nigel Slater - Appetite
- Michael Schuster - Essential Winetasting
- Sue Shepherd (Special Commendation) - Pickled, Potted and Canned
- Fergus Henderson - Nose to Tail Eating
- John Burnett - Liquid Pleasures
- Mark Grant (Special Commendation) - Roman Cookery
- Larry Zuckerman (Special Commendation) - The Potato: How it Changed History
- Alan Davidson (Special Award) - The Oxford Companion to Food
- Ken Hom - Easy Family Dishes
- Max Allen - Red & White
- Stephen Brook (Special Commendation) - Pauillac
- Claudia Roden - The Book of Jewish Food
- Clive Coates - Co^te d?fOr
- Richard Hosking - A Dictionary of Japanese Food
- Maria Kaneva-Johnson - The Melting Pot ?| Balkan Food and Cookery
- Janet Mendel - Traditional Spanish Cooking
- Sophie D Coe and Michael D Coe (Special Commendation) - The True History of Chocolate
- Rick Stein - Taste of the Sea
- Anthony Hanson - Burgundy
- Remington Norman - Rhone Renaissance
- Robert Nield (Special Commendation) - The English, The French and The Oyster
- Simon Hopkinson and Lindsey Bareham - Roast Chicken and Other Stories
- Jancis Robinson - The Oxford Companion to Wine
- Elizabeth David, Ed Jill Norman - Harvest of the Cold Months
- Sri Owen - The Rice Book
- Michael Jackson - Beer Companion
- Henrietta Green (Special Commendation) - Food Lovers Guide to Britain
- Pierre Koffman - La Tante Claire
- Remington Norman - Great Domaines of Burgundy
- Richard Mayson (Special Commendation) - Portugal's Wines and Winemakers
- Arabella Boxer - A Visual Feast
- Oz Clarke - New Classic Wines
- John and Sally McKenna (Special Commendation) - The Bridgestone Irish food Guide
- Jill Norman - The Complete Book of Spices
- Burton Anderson - The Wine Atlas of Italy
- Patrick Rance - The French Cheese Book
- Hugh Johnson - The Story of Wine
- Peter Graham - Classic Cheese Cookery
- Tom Stevenson - Sotheby's World Wine Encyclopaedia
- Henrietta Green - British Food Finds
- Stephen Brook - Liquid Gold: Dessert Wines of the World
- Harold McGee - On Food and Cooking
- Jancis Robinson - Vines, Grapes and Wines
- Hannah Wright - Soups
- Nicholas Belfrage - Life Beyond Lambrusco
- Yan-Kit So - Classic Chinese Cookbook
- Rosemary George - The Wines of Chablis
- Roger Phillips - Wild Food
- Hugh Johnson - Wine Companion
- Jane Grigson - Fruit Book
- Barbara Maher - Cakes
- David Peppercorn - Bordeaux
- Anne Willan - French Regional Cooking
- John R Hume and Michael Moss - The Making of Scotch Whisky
- Marcella Hazan - The Classic Italian Cookbook
- Marika Hanbury Tenison - Cooking with Vegetables
- Michael Broadbent - The Great Vintage Wine Book
- Josceline Dimbleby - The Book of Puddings, Desserts and Savouries
- Joanna Smith - The New English Vineyard
- Alan Davidson - North Atlantic Seafood
- Jane Grigson - Vegetable Book
- Nicholas Faith - The Winemasters