Books

Hawthornden Prize (awards)

This award was given to 70 books.


  1. The World Is What It Is

    The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul

    by Patrick French

    Year: 2009
  2. Darkmans

    by Nicola Barker

    Year: 2008
  3. Carry Me Down

    by M. J. Hyland

    Year: 2007
  4. Stuart

    A Life Backwards

    by Alexander Masters

    Year: 2006
  5. Soul of the Age

    The Life, Mind, and World of William Shakespeare

    by Jonathan Bate

    Year: 2004
  6. The Voices of Morebath

    Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

    by Eamon Duffy

    Year: 2002
  7. Stalingrad

    The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

    by Antony Beevor

    Year: 1999
  8. Somebody Else

    Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91

    by Charles Nicholl

    Year: 1998
  9. Tap Dancer

    by Andrew Barrow

    Year: 1993
  10. The Invisible Woman

    The Story Of Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan

    by Claire Tomalin

    Year: 1991
  11. Behind the Wall

    A Journey Through China

    by Colin Thubron

    Year: 1988
  12. Sour Sweet

    by Timothy Mo

    Year: 1982
  13. Arcadia

    by Christopher Reid

    Year: 1980
  14. Walter

    by David Cook

    Year: 1978
  15. In Patagonia

    by Bruce Chatwin

    Year: 1977
  16. Falstaff

    by Robert Nye

    Year: 1976
  17. Awakenings

    by Oliver Sacks

    Year: 1974
  18. King Log

    Poems

    by Geoffrey Hill

    Year: 1969
  19. The Price of Glory

    Verdun 1916

    by Alistair Horne

    Year: 1963
  20. The Sun Doctor

    by Robert Shaw

    Year: 1962
  21. Lupercal

    by Ted Hughes

    Year: 1961
  22. Beginning

    by Dom Moraes

    Year: 1958
  23. Letters to Malaya

    Written from England to Alexander Nowell

    by Martyn Skinner

    Year: 1944

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