The Whitbread Award for Fiction

Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.

Costa Coffee announced 1 June 2006 a new sponsorship deal to take over the prestigious Whitbread Book Awards. The 2006 awards will be known as the Costa Book Awards.

2005

• Novel The Accidental, Ali Smith
• First Novel The Harmony Silk Factory, Tash Aw
• Poetry Cold Call,Christopher Logue

2004

• Book of the Year and Novel Small Island Andrea Levy
• First Novel Eve Green Susan Fletcher
• Poetry Corpus Michael Symmons Roberts

2003

• Book of the Year and Novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
• First Novel Vernon God Little DBC Pierre
• Poetry Landing Light Don Paterson

2002

• Novel Spies Michael Frayn
• First Novel The Song of Names Norman Lebrecht
• Poetry The Ice Age Paul Farley

2001

• Book of the year and Children's book of the year The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman (part 3 of His Dark Materials series)
• Novel Twelve bar blues Patrick Neate
• First Novel Something like a house Sid Smith

2000

• Book of the year English passengers Matthew Kneale
• First Novel White teeth Zadie Smith
• Novel English passengers Matthew Kneale

1999

• Book of the Year Beowulf Seamus Heaney
• First Novel White city blue Tim Lott
• Novel Music and silence Rose Tremain

1998

• Book of the Year Birthday letters Ted Hughes
• First Novel The Last King of Scotland Giles Foden
• Novel Leading the cheers Justin Cartwright

1997

• Book of the Year and First Novel The Ventriloquist's tale Pauline Melville
• Novel Quarantine Jim Crace

1996

• Book of the Year and First Novel A Debt to pleasure John Lanchester
• Novel Every man for himself Beryl Bainbridge

1995

• Book of the Year and First Novel Behind the scenes at the museum Kate Atkinson
• Novel The Moor's last sigh Salman Rushdie

1994

• Novel and Book of the Year Felicia’s journey William Trevor
• First Novel The Longest memory Fred D’Aguiar

1993

• Novel and Grand Prize Theory of war Joan Brady
• First Novel Saving Agnes Rachel Cusk

1992

• Novel Poor things Alasdair Gray
• First Novel Swing hammer swing! Jeff Torrington

1991

• Novel The Queen of the tambourine Jane Gardam
• First Novel Alma Cogan Gordon Burn

1990

• Novel Hopeful monsters Nicholas Mosley
• First Novel The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi

1989

• Novel The Chymical wedding Lindsay Clarke
• First Novel Gerontius James Hamilton-Paterson

1988

• Novel Satanic verses Salman Rushdie
• First Novel and Grand Prize The Comforts of madness Paul Sayer

1987

• Novel The Child in time Ian McEwan
• First Novel The Other garden Francis Wyndham

1986

• Novel and Grand Prize An Artist of the floating world Kazuo Ishiguro
• First Novel Continent Jim Crace

1985

• Novel Hawksmoor Peter Ackroyd
• First Novel Oranges are not the only fruit Jeanette Winterson

1984

• Novel Kruger’s Alp Christopher Hope
• First Novel A Parish of rich women James Buchan

1983

• Novel Fools of fortune William Trevor
• First Novel Flying to nowhere John Fuller

1982

• Novel Young shoulders John Wain
• First Novel On the black hill Bruce Chatwin

1981

• Novel Silver’s city Maurice Leitch
• First Novel A Good man in Africa William Boyd

Previous

• 1980 Novel and Book of the Year How far can you go? David Lodge
• 1979 Novel The Old jest Jennifer Johnston
• 1978 Novel Picture palace Paul Theroux
• 1977 Novel Injury time Beryl Bainbridge
• 1976 Novel The Children of Dynmouth William Trevor
• 1975 Novel Docherty William McIlvanney
• 1974 Novel The Sacred and profane love machine Iris Murdoch
• 1973 Novel The Chip-chip gatherers Shiva Naipaul