1995 Whitbread Awards

The Whitbread Awards (1971–2005), called Costa Book Awards since 2006, are literary awards in the United Kingdom, awarded both for high literary merit but also for works considered enjoyable reading. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1995.

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

Winner:

Bernard O'Donoghue, Gunpowder

Shortlist:

Simon Armitage, The Dead Sea Poems
Tony Harrison, The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems
Glyn Maxwell, Rest for the Wicked

References

Previous winners

Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards)
1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

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