2005 Whitbread Awards
Encyclopedia
Children's Book
Winner:- Kate ThompsonKate Thompson (author)Kate Thompson is an award-winning writer for children and adults. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, she has lived in Ireland, where many of her books are set, since 1981. She is the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers...
, The New Policeman
Shortlist:
- Frank Cottrell BoyceFrank Cottrell Boyce-Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...
, Framed - Geraldine McCaughreanGeraldine McCaughreanGeraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist.The youngest of three children, McCaughrean studied teaching but did not like it, and found her true vocation in writing. She claims that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world...
, The White Darkness - Hilary McKayHilary McKayHilary McKay is a British children's author.-Biography:She was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, and is the eldest of four daughters. She studied English, Zoology and Botany at St Andrews University before becoming a public protection scientist. Her first novel,The Exiles, was written in 1991...
, Permanent Rose
First Novel
Winner:- Tash AwTash AwTash Aw, whose full name is Aw Ta-Shi is a Malaysian writer currently living in London.- Biography :...
, The Harmony Silk Factory
Shortlist:
- Diana Evans, 26a
- Peter HobbsPeter HobbsPeter Hobbs is a British novelist.He grew up in Cornwall and North Yorkshire and was educated at New College, Oxford. He began writing during a prolonged illness that cut short a potential diplomatic career....
, The Short Day Dying - Rachel ZadokRachel ZadokRachel Zadok is a writer and a Whitbread First Novel Award nominee . She is a graduate of the Certificate in Novel Writing course, run by the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning at City University, London. Zadok was born in South Africa in 1972 to a South African mother and an Israeli...
, Gem Squash Tokoloshe
Novel
Winner:- Ali SmithAli SmithAli Smith is a British writer.She was born to working-class parents, raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at the University of Aberdeen and then at Newnham College, Cambridge, for a PhD that was never finished. She worked as a lecturer at University of...
, the accidental
Shortlist:
- Nick HornbyNick HornbyNick Hornby is an English novelist, essayist and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy, and for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists.-Life and career:Hornby was...
, A Long Way Down - Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown
- Christopher Wilson, The Ballad of Lee Cotton
Biography
Winner:- Hilary SpurlingHilary SpurlingHilary Spurling, CBE, FRSL is a British writer, known as a journalist and biographer. She won the Whitbread Prize for the second volume of her biography of Henri Matisse in January 2006...
, Matisse the Master
Shortlist:
- Nigel FarndaleNigel FarndaleNigel Farndale is a British author and journalist, known for his award-winning interviews in the Sunday Telegraph.He has written five books: two novels, two biographies and a collection of interviews...
, Haw-Haw - Richard MabeyRichard MabeyRichard Mabey is a naturalist and author.He has been called by The Times 'Britain's greatest living nature writer'. Among his acclaimed publications are Food for Free, The Unofficial Countryside and The Common Ground, as well as his study of the nightingale, Whistling in the Dark...
, Nature Cure - Alexander MastersAlexander MastersAlexander Masters is an author, screenwriter, and worker with the homeless. He lives in Cambridge, United Kingdom.Masters is the son of authors Dexter Masters and Joan Brady. He was educated at Bedales School, and took a first in physics from King's College London...
, Stuart: A Life Backwards
Poetry
Winner:- Christopher LogueChristopher LogueChristopher Logue, CBE is an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. He has also written for the theatre and cinema as well as acting in a number of films. His two screenplays are Savage Messiah and The End of Arthur's Marriage...
, Cold Calls
Shortlist:
- David HarsentDavid HarsentDavid Harsent is an English poet & TV scriptwriter. As Jack Curtis and David Lawrence he has published a number of crime fiction novels....
, Legion - Richard PriceRichard Price (poet)Richard Price is a contemporary Scottish poet, novelist, and translator. -Life:He grew up in Renfrewshire.He studied at Napier College, in journalism, and graduated the University of Strathclyde in English and Librarianship, with a joint first.He earned a PhD at University of...
, Lucky Day - Jane Yeh, Marabou