Books

Whitbread Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 106 books.


  1. A Long Way Down

    by Nick Hornby

    Year: 2005
    Category: best novel
    Finalist
  2. A Life of Henri Matisse: Book 2

    Matisse the Master

    A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954

    by Hilary Spurling

    Year: 2005
    Category: Biography
  3. The New Policeman

    by Kate Thompson

    Year: 2005
    Category: Children's Book
  4. The Harmony Silk Factory

    by Tash Aw

    Year: 2005
    Category: First Novel
  5. The Accidental

    by Ali Smith

    Year: 2005
    Category: Novel
  6. My Heart Is My Own

    The Life of Mary Queen of Scots

    by J. A. Guy

    Year: 2004
    Category: Biography
  7. Not the End of the World

    by Geraldine McCaughrean

    Year: 2004
    Category: Children's Book
  8. Eve Green

    by Susan Fletcher

    Year: 2004
    Category: First Novel
  9. The Land as Viewed from the Sea

    by Richard Collins

    Year: 2004
    Category: First Novel
    Finalist
  10. Small Island

    by Andrea Levy

    Year: 2004
    Category: Novel
  11. Corpus

    by Michael Symmons Roberts

    Year: 2004
    Category: Poetry
  12. Orwell

    The Life

    by D. J. Taylor

    Year: 2003
    Category: Biography
  13. The Fire-Eaters

    by David Almond

    Year: 2003
    Category: Children's Book
  14. Vernon God Little

    by D. B. C. Pierre

    Year: 2003
    Category: First Novel
  15. Landing Light

    Poems

    by Don Paterson

    Year: 2003
    Category: Poetry
  16. Samuel Pepys

    The Unequalled Self

    by Claire Tomalin

    Year: 2002
    Category: Biography
  17. A Casson Family Story: Book 1

    Saffy's Angel

    by Hilary McKay

    Year: 2002
    Category: Children's Book
  18. The Song of Names

    by Norman Lebrecht

    Year: 2002
    Category: First Novel
  19. Spies

    by Michael Frayn

    Year: 2002
    Category: Novel
  20. The Ice Age

    A Collection of Poems

    by Paul Farley

    Year: 2002
    Category: Poetry
  21. Selkirk's Island

    The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe

    by Diana Souhami

    Year: 2001
    Category: Biography
  22. Artemis Fowl: Book 1

    Artemis Fowl

    by Eoin Colfer

    Year: 2001
    Category: Children's Book
    Finalist
  23. Something Like a House

    by Sid Smith

    Year: 2001
    Category: First Novel
  24. Twelve Bar Blues

    by Patrick Neate

    Year: 2001
    Category: Novel
  25. Bunny

    by Selima Hill

    Year: 2001
    Category: Poetry
  26. Bad Blood

    A Memoir

    by Lorna Sage

    Year: 2000
    Category: Biography
  27. White Teeth

    by Zadie Smith

    Year: 2000
    Category: First Novel
    Rank: 1
  28. English Passengers

    by Matthew Kneale

    Year: 2000
    Category: Novel
  29. Asylum Dance, The

    by John Burnside

    Year: 2000
    Category: Poetry
  30. Berlioz: Book 2

    Berlioz

    Vol. II: Servitude and Greatness, 1832-1869

    by David Cairns

    Year: 1999
    Category: Biography
  31. White City Blue

    by Tim Lott

    Year: 1999
    Category: First Novel
  32. Music & Silence

    by Rose Tremain

    Year: 1999
    Category: Novel
  33. Beowulf

    A New Verse Translation, Bilingual

    by Seamus Heaney

    Year: 1999
    Category: Poetry
  34. The Duchess

    by Amanda Foreman

    Year: 1998
    Category: Biography
  35. The Last King of Scotland

    by Giles Foden

    Year: 1998
    Category: First Novel
  36. Shopping

    by Gavin Kramer

    Year: 1998
    Category: First Novel
    Rank: shortlist
  37. Leading the Cheers

    by Justin Cartwright

    Year: 1998
    Category: Novel
  38. Birthday Letters

    by Ted Hughes

    Year: 1998
    Category: Poetry
  39. Victor Hugo

    A Biography

    by Graham Robb

    Year: 1997
    Category: Biography
  40. The Ventriloquist's Tale

    by Pauline Melville

    Year: 1997
    Category: First Novel
  41. Quarantine

    by Jim Crace

    Year: 1997
    Category: Novel
  42. This book is based on Metamorphoses by Ovid.

    Tales from Ovid

    by Ted Hughes

    Year: 1997
    Category: Poetry
  43. Thomas Cranmer

    by Diarmaid MacCulloch

    Year: 1996
    Category: Biography
  44. The Debt to Pleasure

    by John Lanchester

    Year: 1996
    Category: First Novel
  45. Every Man for Himself

    by Beryl Bainbridge

    Year: 1996
    Category: Novel
  46. The Spirit Level

    by Seamus Heaney

    Year: 1996
    Category: Poetry
  47. The Wreck of the Zanzibar

    by Michael Morpurgo

    Year: 1995
    Category: Beefeater Children's Novel
  48. Gladstone

    A Biography

    by Roy Jenkins

    Year: 1995
    Category: Biography

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