1995 Whitbread Awards

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