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James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

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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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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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1980 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1980 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1980 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerWaiting for the BarbariansJ.M. CoetzeeFour modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and accompanied by introductions from some of Australia’s brightest writing talents...Amazon
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1982 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1982 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1982 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerOn the Black HillBruce ChatwinIdentical twins Lewis and Benjamin Jones farm their Welsh Borders property, "The Vision," for half a century, their vigor, pain, angers, and involvements leading them to a sense of salvation....Amazon
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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1983 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1983 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerAllegro PostillionsJonathan KeatesMassacre and revolution in the mountains of Calabria, passion and betrayal in a Venetian opera house, a web of baffled desire spun during a summer in Verona, a world where exile kills more swiftly than death itself, where innocence becomes a lethal weapon,...Amazon
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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerEmpire of the SunJ.G. BallardThe classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events...Amazon
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1987 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1987 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Golden BirdGeorge MacKay BrownThese two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown's work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be threatened. The Golden B...Amazon
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