2001

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR

WINNER
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR

WINNER
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

SHORTLIST

Artemis Fowl
by Eoin Colfer

Journey to the River Sea
by Eva Ibbotson

The Lady and the Squire
by Terry Jones

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD

WINNER
Something Like A House by Sid Smith

SHORTLIST

The Oversight
by Will Eaves

Burning Worm
by Carl Tighe

August
by Gerard Woodward

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD

WINNER

Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate

SHORTLIST

The Siege
by Helen Dunmore

Atonement
by Ian McEwan

Oxygen
by Andrew Miller

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD

WINNER

Selkirk's Island by Diana Souhami

SHORTLIST
A View of Delft
by Anthony Bailey

Boswell's Presumptuous Task
by Adam Sisman

Flaubert: A Life
by Geoffrey Wall

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD

WINNER
Bunny by
Selima Hill

SHORTLIST

The Age of Cardboard and String
by Charles Boyle

If I don't know
by Wendy Cope

Panoramic Lounge-Bar
by John Stammers

2000

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR

WINNER

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR

WINNER
Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin

SHORTLIST
Troy by Adele Geras
The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Heaven Eyes by David Almond

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD

WINNER

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

SHORTLIST
Born Free by Laura Hird
Danny Boy by Jo-Ann Goodwin
Under the Skin by Michel Faber

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD

WINNER

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

SHORTLIST
How the Dead Live by Will Self
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
What Are You Like? by Anne Enright
Fred & Edie by Jill Dawson

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD

WINNER

Bad Blood - A Memoir by Lorna Sage

SHORTLIST
Hitler - 1936-1945 Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
John Ruskin - The Later Years by Tim Hilton
Fanny Burney by Claire Harman

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD

WINNER
The Asylum Dance by John Burnside

SHORTLIST
Granny Scarecrow by Anne Stevenson
Floods by Maurice Riordan
Collected Poems by R F Langley
Conjure by Michael Donaghy

WINNERS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS

1999

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
White City Blue by Tim Lott

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Berlioz, Volume 2 by David Cairns

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney

1998

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
Skellig by David Almond

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Leading the Cheers by Justin Cartwright

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

1997

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
Aquila by Andrew Norriss

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Ventriloquist’s Tale by Pauline Melville

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Quarantine by Jim Crace

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Victor Hugo by Graham Robb

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes

1996

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney

1995

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Gladstone by Roy Jenkins

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
Gunpowder by Bernard O’Donoghue

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
Gold Dust by Geraldine McCaughrean

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Longest Memory by Fred D'Aguiar

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
D H Lawrence: The Married Man by Brenda Maddox

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
Out of Danger by James Fenton

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
Theory of War by Joan Brady

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
Flour Babies by Anne Fine

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Theory of War by Joan Brady

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life by Andrew Motion

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy

1992

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Great Elephant Chase by Gillian Cross

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Trollope by Victoria Glendinning

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
The Gaze of the Gorgon by Tony Harrison

1991

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
A Life of Picasso by by John Richardson

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
Harvey Angell by Diana Hendry

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
A Life of Picasso by by John Richardson

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
Gorse Fires by Michael Longley

1990

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
AK by Peter Dickinson

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
A A Milne: His Life by Ann Thwaite

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
Daddy, Daddy by Paul Durcan

1989

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes
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WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
Why Weeps the Brogan? by Hugh Scott

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Gerontius by James Hamilton-Paterson

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
Shibboleth by Michael Donaghy

1988

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
Awaiting Developments by Judy Allen

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Tolstoy by A N Wilson

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
The Automatic Oracle by Peter Porter

1987

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
Under the eye of the clock by Christopher Nolan

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
A Little Lower than the Angels by Geraldine McCaughrean

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Other Garden by Francis Wyndham

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Under the eye of the clock by Christopher Nolan

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney

1986

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Coal House by Andrew Taylor

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Continent by Jim Crace

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Gilbert White by Richard Mabey

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
Stet by Peter Reading

The Whitbread Book of the Year was awarded for the first time in 1985 when the format of the Awards was changed.

WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR
Elegies by Douglas Dunn

WHITBREAD CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Nature of the Beast by Janni Howker

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Oranges are not the only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Hugh Dalton by Ben Pimlott

WHITBREAD POETRY AWARD WINNER
Elegies by Douglas Dunn

FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
A Parish of Rich Women by James Buchan

NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Kruger's Alp by Christopher Hope

BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
T S Eliot by Peter Ackroyd

SHORT STORY AWARD WINNER
Tomorrow is our Permanent Address by Diane Rowe

CHILDREN'S NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Queen of the Pharisees' Children by Barbara Willard

FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller

NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor

JOINT BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Vita by Victoria Glendinning

King George V by Kenneth Rose

CHILDREN'S NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Witches by Roald Dahl

FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin

NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Young Shoulders by John Wain

BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw

CHILDREN'S NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Song of Pentecost by W J Corbett

FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER
A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd

NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Silver's City by Maurice Leitch

BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Monty: The Making of a General by Nigel Hamilton

CHILDREN'S NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam

NOVEL AND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER
How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge

BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
On the Edge of Paradise: A C Benson the Diarist by David Newsome

CHILDREN'S NOVEL AWARD WINNER
John Diamond by Leon Garfield

NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston

AUTOBIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
About Time by Penelope Mortimer

CHILDREN'S NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Tulku by Peter Dickinson

1978

NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Picture Palace by Paul Theroux

BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Lloyd George: The People's Champion by John Grigg

CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD WINNER
The Battle of Bubble & Squeak by Philippa Pearce

1977

NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge

BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Mary Curzon by Nigel Nicolson

CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD WINNER
No End to Yesterday by Shelagh Macdonald

1976

NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor

BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Elizabeth Gaskell by Winifred Gerin

CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD WINNER
A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively

NOVEL AWARD WINNER
Docherty by William McIlvanney

AUTOBIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
In Our Infancy by Helen Corke

FIRST BOOK AWARD WINNER
The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelock by Ruth Spalding

NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Sacred & Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch

BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Poor Dear Brendan by Andrew Boyle

JOINT CHILDREN'S BOOKS AWARD WINNER
How Tom Beat Captain Najork & His Hired Sportsmen by Russell Hoban & Quentin Blake

The Emperor's Winding Sheet by Jill Paton Walsh

FIRST BOOK AWARD WINNER
The Life & Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin

NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Chip Chip Gatherers by Shiva Naipaul

BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman by John Wilson

CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD WINNER
The Butterfly Ball & The Grasshopper's Feast by Alan Aldridge & William Plomer

NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Bird of Night by Susan Hill

BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Trollope by James Pope-Hennessey

CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD WINNER
The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden

NOVEL AWARD WINNER
The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles

BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Henrik Ibsen by Michael Meyer

POETRY AWARD WINNER
Mercian Hymns by Geoffrey Hill