1997 Whitbread Awards

Awards

Book of the Year

• Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid

Children's Book

• Andrew Norriss, Aquila

Shortlist

• Alan Temperley, Harry and the Wrinklies
• Sharon Creech, Chasing Redbird
• Melvin Burgess, Junk

First Novel

• Pauline Melville, The Ventriloquist's Tale

Shortlist

• Anne Haverty, One Day as a Tiger
• Mick Jackson, The Underground Man
• Ardashir Vakil, Beach Boy
• Phil Whitaker, Eclipse of the Sun

Novel

• Jim Crace, Quarantine

Shortlist

• John Banville, The Untouchable
• Bernard MacLaverty, Grace Notes
• Patrick McGrath, Asylum
• Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
• Geoff Nicholson, Bleeding London

Biography

• Graham Robb, Victor Hugo

Shortlist

• Jessica Douglas-Home, Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse
• Kate Summerscale, Queen of Whale Cay
• Stella Tillyard, Citizen Lord
• Jenny Uglow, Hogarth, A Life and a World

Poetry

• Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid

Shortlist

• Simon Armitage, CloudCuckooLand
• Selima Hill, Sugar-Paper blue Violet
• Christopher Reid, Expanded Universes
• Peter Redgrove, Assembling a Ghost

References

• Previous winners