Whitbread Book Award, 2005-1995
The Whitbread Book Award is given each year in four categories (novel, first novel, poetry, and biography) to works by authors who have lived for three or more years in Great Britain or Ireland. Category winners are also eligible to become the Whitbread Book of the Year, which is announced two weeks later and brings prize money of £21,000.
Novel:
Small Island
/ Andrea Levy (Winner)
Case
Histories / Kate Atkinson
Birds
Without Wings / Louis de Bernieres
The Line of
Beauty / Alan Hollinghurst
First Novel:
Eve Green
/ Susan Fletcher (Winner)
Jonathan
Strange & Mr Norrell / Susanna Clarke
The Land as
Viewed from the Sea / Richard Collins
The
Maze / Panos Karnezis
Poetry:
Corpus /
Michael Symmons Roberts (Winner)
These Days
/ Leontia Flynn
Ghosts /
John Fuller
Ground Water
/ Matthew Hollis
Novel:
The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / Mark Haddon (Winner)
The Lucky
Ones / Rachel Cusk
Heligoland
/ Shena Mackay
Frankie
& Stankie / Barbara Trapido
First Novel:
Vernon
God
Little / D.B.C. Pierre (Winner)
Buddha Da
/ Anne Donovan
An Evening
of Long Goodbyes / Paul Murray
An Empty Room
/ Talitha Stevenson
Poetry:
Landing
Light
/ Don Paterson (Winner)
Minsk /
Lavinia Greenlaw
Ink Stone
/ Jamie McKendrick
Hard Water
/ Jean Sprackland
2002
Novel:
Spies /
Michael Frayn (Winner)
White
Lightning / Justin Cartwright
Rumours of
a
Hurricane / Tim Lott
The Story of
Lucy Gault / William Trevor
First Novel:
The Song of
Names / Norman Lebrecht (Winner)
The End of
My Tether / Neil Astley
Homage to a
Firing Squad / Tariq Goddard
The
Impressionist / Hari Kunzru
Poetry:
The Ice Age
/ Paul Farley (Winner)
Something
for the Ghosts / David Constantine
Voodoo Shop
/ Ruth Padel
The
Beautiful Lie / Sheenagh Pugh
2001
Novel:
Twelve Bar
Blues / Patrick Neate (Winner)
The Siege / Helen Dunmore
Atonement
/ Ian McEwan
Oxygen /
Andrew Miller
First Novel:
Something
Like A House / Sid Smith (Winner)
The Oversight
/ Will Eaves
Burning Worm
/ Carl Tighe
August /
Gerard Woodward
Poetry:
Bunny /
Selima Hill (Winner)
The Age of
Cardboard and String / Charles Boyle
If I Don’t
Know / Wendy Cope
Panoramic
Lounge-Bar / John Stammers
Biography:
Selkirk’s
Island / Diana Souhami (Winner)
A View of
Delft / Anthony Bailey
Boswell’s
Presumptuous Task / Adam Sisman
Flaubert: A
Life / Geoffrey Wall
2000
Novel:
English
Passengers / Matthew Kneale (Winner)
What Are You
Like? / Anne Enright
When We Were
Orphans / Kazuo Ishiguro
How the Dead
Live / Will Self
Fred &
Edie / Jill Dawson
First Novel:
White Teeth
/ Zadie Smith (Winner)
Under the
Skin / Michel Faber
Danny Boy
/ Jo-Ann Goodwin
Born Free
/ Laura Hird
Poetry:
The Asylum
Dance /
John
Burnside
Biography:
Bad Blood: A
Memoir / Lorna Sage
1999
Novel:
Music and
Silence / Rose Tremain
First Novel:
White City
Blue / Tim Lott
Poetry and Book of the Year:
Beowulf /
Seamus Heaney
Biography:
Berlioz:
Volume Two / David Cairns
1998
Novel:
Leading the
Cheers / Justin Cartwright
First Novel:
The Last
King of Scotland / Giles Foden
Poetry and Book of the Year:
Birthday
Letters / Ted Hughes
Biography:
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / Amanda Foreman
1997
Novel:
Quarantine
/ Jim Crace
First Novel:
The
Ventriloquist's Tale / Pauline Melville
Poetry and Book of the Year:
Tales from
Ovid / Ted Hughes
Biography:
Victor Hugo:
A Biography / Graham Robb
1996
Novel:
Every Man
for Himself / Beryl Bainbridge
First Novel:
The Debt to
Pleasure / John Lanchester
Poetry and Book of the Year:
Spirit Level
/ Seamus Heaney
Biography:
Thomas
Cranmer: A Life / Diarmaid MacCulloch
1995
Novel:
The Moor's
Last Sigh / Salman Rushdie
First Novel and Book of the Year:
Behind the Scenes at the Museum / Kate Atkinson
Poetry:
Gunpowder / Bernard O'Donoghue
Biography:
Gladstone
/ Roy Jenkins