2005 Whitbread Awards

Book of the Year

• Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master

Children's Book

Winner:

• Kate Thompson, The New Policeman

Shortlist:

• Frank Cottrell Boyce, Framed
• Geraldine McCaughrean, The White Darkness
• Hilary McKay, Permanent Rose

First Novel

Winner:

• Tash Aw, The Harmony Silk Factory

Shortlist:

• Diana Evans, 26a
• Peter Hobbs, The Short Day Dying
• Rachel Zadok, Gem Squash Tokoloshe

Novel

Winner:

• Ali Smith, the accidental

Shortlist:

• Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
• Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown
• Christopher Wilson, The Ballad of Lee Cotton

Biography

Winner:

• Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master

Shortlist:

• Nigel Farndale, Haw-Haw
• Richard Mabey, Nature Cure
• Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards

Poetry

Winner:

• Christopher Logue, Cold Calls

Shortlist:

• David Harsent, Legion
• Richard Price, Lucky Day
• Jane Yeh, Marabou

References

• Previous winners