1997 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 1997.
Awards
Book of the Year
Children's Book
- Andrew Norriss, Aquila
Shortlist
- Alan Temperley, Harry and the Wrinklies
- Sharon Creech, Chasing Redbird
- Melvin Burgess, Junk
First Novel
- Pauline Melville, The Ventriloquist's Tale
Shortlist
Novel
- Jim Crace, Quarantine
Shortlist
- John Banville, The Untouchable
- Bernard MacLaverty, Grace Notes
- Patrick McGrath, Asylum
- Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
- Geoff Nicholson, Bleeding London
Biography
Shortlist
- Jessica Douglas-Home, Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse
- Kate Summerscale, Queen of Whale Cay
- Stella Tillyard, Citizen Lord
- Jenny Uglow, Hogarth, A Life and a World
Poetry
Shortlist
- Simon Armitage, CloudCuckooLand
- Selima Hill, Sugar-Paper blue Violet
- Christopher Reid, Expanded Universes
- Peter Redgrove, Assembling a Ghost
References
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