Hachette Filipacchi's thinking women's monthly Psychologies, which grew to a circulation of 140,162 in just over two years, is the most recently launched title among the finalists.
IPC's babe-obsessed Nuts is the only mens' magazine to make the final cut, rubbing shoulders in the shortlist with Conde Nast's House & Garden and BBC Magazines' Olive.
The shortlist is completed by Conde Nast's Glamour, Bauer (formerly Emap) titles Grazia and Yours, and the National Magazine Company's Harper's Bazaar, which was last year's winner.
Nuts is also shortlisted in the consumer media brand of the year category with IPC stablemate NME, BBC Magazines' BBC Good Food, NatMags' Country Living and Future's T3.
The eight-strong interactive consumer magazine shortlist includes ; from Bauer (formerly Emap); from IPC; from Reed Business Information; from IPC; from IPC; from Time Out Group; and from Haymarket Motoring Publications.
International consumer magazine of the year will be contested by Haymarket Consumer Media's Eve, Bauer's (formerly Emap) FHM; Hello!; Volvo customer title Liv:UK (created by Redwood); and two Future titles, .net and Windows Vista: The Official Magazine.
The can be found at the PPA Magazines 2008 website.
The winners will be announced at a dinner on May 7 at Grosvenor House, following the two-day
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