Presentation Ceremony in the Axis Restaurant, One Aldwych Hotel, Covent Garden, June 20, 7 pm

The London Awards for Art and Performance are the country's most expansive awards and recognises the best in British art and entertainment across 11 categories. Nominations are based on recent and highly rated reviews of the artist or performer's work, and a recognition of their talent and skill in their art form.

As current and excellent practitioners of their art, the nominees themselves are the best people to judge each category. Nominees are asked to pick their top artists to arrive at the shortlist and award winner who will receive the trophy. The winner will be announced at the Presentation Ceremony.

Shortlist (in development as votes are coming in, alphabetical order):

Results of public voting (please note, online voting can be unreliable so this is for interest only and will not be used in the judging). Please take a moment to vote below, only one vote per award please.

Long list in competition (click on title for more) - nominations: 17

London Book Award Nomination A D Miller: '[on Snowdrops] This is a Russia gleaming with strip joints, call girls, malevolent overlords, fraudsters, overnight millionaires; but in which the old beg on snowy streets and tramps ring random doorbells seeking shelter from hypothermic death. The overriding theme is corruption and the way that morals can become corroded, but the novel is multi-layered; subtle rather than strident, and imbued with a bruised beauty.'

Chris Brocklebank · Views 282 · Feb 17 ·

London Book Award Nomination Carol Birch: '[on Jamrachā€™s Menagarie].. beyond the blood, brine and slime that swills down the Ratcliffe Highway, above the stench of the rotting fruit and vegetables and the excrement of a thousand animals, lies a rather subtler story of the hazy line between camaraderie and rivalry and of the bonds both forged and broken in extreme adversity.'

Chris Brocklebank · Views 228 · Feb 17 ·

London Book Award Nomination Tiffany Murray: '[on Diamond Star Halo] Raised in rural Monmouthshire, she grew up at the legendary Rockfield Studios, where her father was a producer and her mother the resident cook. In lesser hands, Murray's ensemble of eccentrics might have grown tiresome. It's testament to her talents that she has transformed this material into something more substantial. Thanks to Halo's presence, a tender coming-of-age story captures the ordinary pangs of growing up in unusual circumstances.'

Chris Brocklebank · Views 300 · Feb 14 ·

London Book Award Nomination Joanna Hodgkin: 'In this account of her mother Nancy's first marriage to novelist and travel writer Lawrence Durrell, Joanna Hodgkin is mindful enough of a history that places wives on the margins. This is not just a memoir of her mother. This is the history of a literary wife. On both counts, Hodgkin succeeds beautifully.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 357 · Feb 11 ·

London Book Award Nomination Jon McGregor: 'The prose is picked clean, pellucid. Even a young womanā€™s near-death experience, when a sugar beet smashes through her car windscreen, holds a purposeful, uncanny beauty entirely of that moment...'

Venetia Twigg · Views 304 · Feb 02 ·

London Book Award Nomination Geoff Dyer: 'It shilly-shallies aimlessly but also pricelessly. Therapy for Dyer, bliss for the reader.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 296 · Jan 25 ·

London Book Award Nomination Kate Williams: '[on The Pleasures of Men] .. an ambitious, challenging concern with form combined with a pitch-perfect historical ear. Williams has a gift for grotesque sensuality, impregnating her city with a fine layer of clinging filth... This intoxicating and disturbing novel is properly thrilling and extraordinarily well-written.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 351 · Jan 18 ·

London Book Award nomination Edward Hogan: '.. the financial stumbling blocks to love are particularly well handled . . . a gripping tale of trapped lives.'

Chris Brocklebank · Views 453 · Nov 21 ·

London Book Award nomination Gavin James Bower: '.. brave "warts and all" portrayal makes for an original and engaging novel.'

Chris Brocklebank · Views 477 · Nov 16 ·

London Book Award nomination Jackie Kay: "One of Kay's great skills as a writer is the way in which she explores the nebulous territory of the emotions."

Chris Brocklebank · Views 420 · Nov 12 ·

London Book Award nomination Zoe Strachan: 'This novel is a recurring homage to the power and curse of memory.'

Chris Brocklebank · Views 554 · Nov 12 ·

London Book Award nomination Lucy Caldwell: '.. a beautifully written and mature reflection on identity, loyalty and belief in a complex world.'

Chris Brocklebank · Views 480 · Nov 12 ·

London Book award nomination Pauline Black: 'Growing up, the usual horrors and confusions of being an adolescent had extra weight as she struggled to define herself in a largely white community and a family who thought it best not to acknowledge her colour.'

Chris Brocklebank · Views 685 · Nov 02 ·

London Book Award nomination Catherine Hall: '.. the strain of too-long-kept secrets and the damaging human foible of seeing yourself through the interpretations of others are all themes that Hallā€™s tautly-plotted novel touches upon.'

Chris Brocklebank · Views 522 · Nov 01 ·

London Book Award Nomination Aly Monroe's: '[on Icelight] Steeped in a palpably awful shabbiness, pickled in austerity and shrouded in slimy yellow fog, Monroeā€™s sense of post-war London is astonishingly good.'

Chris Brocklebank · Views 724 · Oct 18 ·

London Book Award nomination Jill Dawson: '[on Lucky Bunny] Nothing will confine our heroine, neither the violence of her boyfriend nor the law itself. She bursts out of these pages, longing for life, as we are drawn into her world by Dawsonā€™s terse, electric prose. Iā€™ve seldom read a novel with such a sense of excitement.'

Greg Tallent · Views 723 · Aug 11 ·

London Book Award nomination Amanda Coe: '[on What They Do in the Dark] .. this is a terrific debut, full of energy and colour; as propulsive as a thriller, but refusing to compromise for the sake of giving satisfaction.'

Greg Tallent · Views 746 · Aug 03 ·