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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Secret Scripture: A NovelSebastian BarryNearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often wi...Amazon2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Case of Exploding Mangoes: A NovelMohammed HanifAmazonA Mercy: A NovelToni MorrisonAmazonPilcrowAdam Mars-JonesAmazonSputnik CaledoniaAndrew CrumeyAmazon

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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1992 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1992 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerSacred CountryRose TremainCertain that she is really a male trapped in a female's body, Mary Ward pursues this elusive identity, much to the consternation of her mother, her brother, and a neighbor's son, in an acclaimed novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Reprint....Amazon

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2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerOur Horses in EgyptRosalind BelbenPhilomena is requisitioned from a Dorset field in the summer of 1914, and serves with the yeomanry in Egypt and Palestine until the end of the First World War. But she doesn't come back to England: thousands of British Army horses are sold off locally. Fai...Amazon2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Far CountryDaniel MasonAmazonSalvageGee WilliamsAmazonThe Devil's Footprints: A NovelJohn BurnsideAmazonThe Reluctant Fundamentalist: A NovelMohsin HamidAmazon

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2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerGod's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic BritainRosemary HillDuring his short life Pugin was shipwrecked, bankrupted, widowed twice and driven to madness. Yet by the time of his death at forty he had changed the face of Britain with his visionary Gothic architecture, designing glorious churches, cathedrals, houses a...Amazon2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistEdith WhartonHermione LeeAmazonHand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTellMichael GrayAmazonJohn Stuart Mill: Victorian FirebrandRichard ReevesAmazonYoung StalinSimon Sebag MontefioreAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe RoadCormac McCarthyWith an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves s...Amazon2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistElectricityRay RobinsonAmazonHalf of a Yellow Sun: A NovelChimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmazonSeven Lies: A NovelJames LasdunAmazonThe Night WatchSarah WatersAmazonThe View from Castle Rock: StoriesAlice MunroAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. ThomasByron RogersPresenting the life of one of 20th century English literature's greatest poets, this is a hilarious story of a singular man. Here the author unearths the story of R.S. Thomas's life, and that of his household - one both comic, absurd and touching....Amazon2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistBad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and FatherlandCarmen CallilAmazonGeorge Mackay Brown: The LifeMaggie FergussonAmazonJohn Evelyn: Living for IngenuityGillian DarleyAmazonMellon: An American LifeDavid CannadineAmazonThe High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama, and the First British Expedition to TibetKate TeltscherAmazon

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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerSaturdayIan McEwan‘Dazzling... Profound and urgent’ Observer ‘A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday’ ...Amazon2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistBeasts of No Nation: A NovelUzodinma IwealaAmazonMother, Missing: A NovelJoyce Carol OatesAmazonNever Let Me Go: A NovelKazuo IshiguroAmazonPraying Mantis: A NovelAndré BrinkAmazonThe AccidentalAli SmithAmazon

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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerEdvard Munch: Behind the ScreamSue PrideauxThe biography of the artist who created the most haunting icon of the twentieth century Although almost everyone recognizes Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, hardly anyone knows much about the man. What kind of person could have created this unive...Amazon2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistHaw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret JoyceNigel FarndaleAmazonSiegfried Sassoon: A LifeMax EgremontAmazonStuart: A Life BackwardsAlexander MastersAmazonThe Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio NelsonRoger KnightAmazonVoltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of FreedomRoger PearsonAmazon

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2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerGB84David PeaceGreat Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people. This book describes the insidious workings of the boardroom negotiations and the increasingly anarchic coalf...Amazon2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistCloud Atlas: A NovelDavid MitchellAmazonHavoc in Its Third Year: A NovelRonan BennettAmazonPsychoraag: A NovelSuhayl SaadiAmazonThe AfterglowAnthony CartwrightAmazon

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2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerJohn Clare: A BiographyJonathan BateThe long-awaited literary biography of the supreme "poets' poet" John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and u...Amazon2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistA Life Of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare And The Noble DreamNicola LaceyAmazonEichmann: His Life and CrimesDavid CesaraniAmazonLike A Fiery Elephant: The Story Of B. S. JohnsonJonathan CoeAmazonMalinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1884-1920Michael W. YoungAmazonNelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797John SugdenAmazon