Whitbread Book of the Year
There are six awards - first novel, novel, biography, poetry and children's. The winners of each
category (each worth £3.500 in 1999) then go forward to the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
An Annual literary award for books by residents of UK or Ireland for 3 years.
Worth £21,000 in 1997. In 2000 it was worth £26.000 & in 2003 £30.000
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WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD
1971 : Gerda CHARLES - The Destiny Waltz
1972 : Susan HILL - The Bird of the Night
1973 : Shiva NAIPAUL - The Chip Chip Gatherers
1974 : Iris MURDOCH - The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
1975 : William McILVANNEY - Docherty
1976 : William TREVOR - The Children of Dynmouth
1977 : Beryl BAINBRIDGE - Injury Time
1978 : Paul THEROUX - Picture Palace
1979 : Jennifer JOHNSTON - The Old Jest

1980 : David LODGE - How Far Can You Go ? (also won the Book of the Year Award)
1981 : Maurice LEITCH - Silver's City
1982 : John WAIN - Young Shoulders
1983 : William TREVOR - Fools of Fortune
1984 : Christopher HOPE - Kruger's Alp
1985 : Peter ACKROYD - Hawksmoor
1986 : Kazuo ISHIGURO - An Artist of the Floating World (also won the Book of the Year Award)
1987 : Ian MacEWAN - The Child in Time
1988 : Salman RUSHDIE - The Satanic Verses
1989 : Lindsay CLARKE - The Chymical Wedding

1990 : Nicholas MOSLEY - Hopeful Monsters (also won the Book of the Year Award)
1991 : Jane GARDAM - The Queen of the Tambourine
1992 : Alasdair GRAY - Poor Things
1993 : Joan BRADY - Theory of War (also won the Book of the Year Award)
1994 : William TREVOR - Felicia's Journey (also won the Book of the Year Award)
1995 : Salman RUSHDIE - The Moor's Last Sigh
1996 : Beryl BAINBRIDGE - Every Man for Himself
1997 : Jim CRACE - Quarantine
1998 : Justin CARTWRIGHT - Leading the Cheers
1999 :
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2001 : Matthew KNEALE - English Passengers
2002 : Michael Frayn : Spies (2002 Faber £14.99)
2003 : David Haddon : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
(2003 Cape/David Fickling £10.99) - 1st Novel
2004 : Andrea Levy : Small Island (2004 Review £14.99)

WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD
1981 : William BOYD - A Good Man in Africa
1982 : Bruce CHATWIN - On the Black Hill
1983 : John FULLER - Flying to Nowhere
1984 : James BUCHAN - A Parish of Rich Women
1985 : Jeanette WINTERSON - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1986 : Jim CRACE - Continent
1987 : Francis WYNDHAM - The Other Garden
1988 : Paul SAYER - The Comfort of Madness (also won the Book of the Year Award)
1989 : James HAMILTON-PATERSON - Gerontius
1990 : Janif KUREISHI - The Buddha of Suburbia
1991 : Gordon BURN - Alma Cogan (US : Alma - A Novel)
1992 : Jeff TORRINGTON - Swing Hammer Swing ! (also won the Book of the Year Award)
1993 : Rachel CUSK - Saving Agnes
1994 : Fred D'AGUIAR - The Longest Memory : A Novel
1995 : Kate ATKINSON - Behind the Scenes at the Museum (also won the Book of the Year Award)
1996 : John LANCHESTER - The Debt to Pleasure
1997 : Pauline MELVILLE - The Ventrioloquist's Tale
1998 : Giles FODEN - The Last King of Scotland
2003 : D B C PIERRE : Vernon God Little (2003 Faber £12.99) - 1st Novel
2004 : Susan Fletcher : Eve Green (2004)

Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award
1987 : Geraldine McCAUGHREAN : A Little Lower than the Angels (1987)
1990 : Peter DICKINSON - AK
1991 : Diana HENDRY - Harvey Angell
1992 : Gillian CROSS - The Great Elephant Chase
1993 : Anne FINE - Flour Babies
1994 : Geraldine McCAUGHREAN - Gold Dust (1993) (1994 OUP)
1995 : Michael MORPURGO - The Wreck of the Zanzibar
1996 : Anne FINE - The Tulip Touch
1997 : Andrew NORRIS - Aquila
1998 : David ALMOND - Skellig
1999 : J K ROWLING - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2003 : David ALOND : The Fire-Eaters (2003 Hodder & Stoughton)
2004 : Geraldine McCAUGHREAN : Not the End of the World (2004 Oxford UP £10.99)

Book of the Year Award
1990 : Nicholas Mosley - Hopeful Monsters
1991 : John RICHARDSON - A Life of Picasso
1992 : Jeff TORRINGTON : Swing Hammer Swing !
1993 : Joan BRADY : Theory of War
1994 : William TREVOR - Felicia's Journey
1995 : Kate ATKINSON - Behind the Scenes at the Museum
1996 : Seamus HEANEY - The Spirit Level
1997 : Ted HUGHES - Tales from Ovid
1998 : Ted HUGHES - Birthday Letters
1999 : Seamus HEANEY - Beowulf
2000 : Matthew KNEALE - English Passengers
2002 : Claire TOMALIN : Samuel Pepys - The Unequalled Self (2002 Penguin £20)
2003 : David Haddon : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
(2003 Cape/David Fickling £10.99) - 1st Novel