Robert Muchamore won the older reader's category for his action-packed thriller about a special agent called Cherub: The Recruit.

BBC: It is the only book award voted for entirely by children

The linchpin of the action is Jiang Cheng, a young travel agent and, in his spare time, a female impersonator, who is having an affair with Wang Ping, a college student and a married man whose wife hires a private eye to follow him.

NEWYORKER: Spring Fever

As the man was passing out, the agent shook him awake, then repeated the action twice.

BBC: Guantanamo Bay detainees in 2002

"They're getting all the action because they made the effort, " said real-estate agent Robert Herskovitz, who lives with three dogs and volunteers with Mighty Mutts, a nonprofit that finds home for stray animals.

WSJ: Where Dogs Rule the Roost

Upon calling them again I was told that this was standard procedure in the event of faulty goods and no refund or exchange could go ahead without this visit, despite a previous agent telling me that the pictorial evidence was sufficient to effect this action.

BBC: Fergus Muirhead

An estate agent who caught a man trying to get into his house has complained to Kent Police after no action was taken.

BBC: Complaint as Kent Police release 'caught intruder'