Book of the Year

Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Children's Book

Winner:

• Michael Morpurgo , The Wreck of the Zanzibar

Shortlist:

• Elizabeth Arnold , The Parsley Parcel
• Philip Ridley , Kasper in the Glitter

First Novel

Winner:

• Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Shortlist:

• Stephen Blanchard , Gagarin & I
• Alan Warner, Morvern Callar

Novel

Winner:

• Salman Rushdie, The Moor’s Last Sigh

Shortlist:

• Martin Amis, The Information
• Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
• Justin Cartwright , In Every Face I Meet
• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

Biography

Winners:

• Roy Jenkins, Gladstone

Shortlist:

• Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge , Vera Brittain – A Life
• Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
• Geoffrey Wansell , Terence Rattigan

Poetry

Winners:

• Bernard O’Donoghue , Gunpowder
• Simon Armitage, The Dead Sea Poems
• Tony Harrison, The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems
• Glyn Maxwell, Rest for the Wicked

Other Whitbread Awards

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