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1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1979 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1979 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerDarkness VisibleWilliam GoldingWinner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Darkness Visible opens at the height of the London Blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved but hideously scarred, soon tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a w...Amazon
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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerPlumbMaurice GeeThe Trilogy brings together the three novels Plumb, Meg and Sole Survivor to set up a family saga unrivalled by anything in New Zealand literature. In Plumb, Gee introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb. It won the New Zealand Fict...Amazon
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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Older HardyRobert GittingsClaire Clairmont, stepsister of Mary Shelley and mother of Byron's illegitimate daughter Allegra, has never been given a full biographical treatment until this acclaimed biography by the late Robert Gittings and Jo Manton. Drawing on her vivid letters and ...Amazon
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1977 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1977 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1977 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Honourable SchoolboyJohn le CarréTrying to rebuild his espionage organization after a traitor is unmasked, George Smiley sends one of his most trusted agents on a mission to the Far East....Amazon
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1975 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Great Victorian CollectionBrian MooreSet in a fantastic, surreal world, 'The Great Victorian Collection' is a fascinating exploration of the disturbing, intangible nature of reality. "Moore is a brilliant storyteller, a novelist of great subtlety and depth....Amazon
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1975 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerCockburn's MillenniumKarl MillerHenry Cockburn (1779-1854), a leading Scottish Whig of the nineteenth century, author of the classic Memorials of His Time, is perhaps the least-known of Scotland's famous men. 'Small, solid and genuine', in Carlyle's phrase, Cockburn gave himself to a var...Amazon
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