W H Smith Book Award - Literary Award
Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.
- 2004 The Time of our singing Richard Powers
- 2003 The Little friend Donna Tartt
- 2002 Atonement Ian McEwan
- 2001 The Human stain Philip Roth
- 2000 The Soldier's return Melvyn Bragg
- 1999 Master Georgie Beryl Bainbridge
- 1998 Tales from Ovid Ted Hughes
- 1997 A People's tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1891-1924 Orlando Figes
- 1996 Landscape and memory Simon Schama
- 1995 Open secrets Alice Munro
- 1994 A Suitable boy Vikram Seth
- 1993 Daughters of the house Michele Roberts
- 1992 The Scramble for Africa Thomas Pakenham
- 1991 Omeros Derek Walcott
- 1990 A Careless widow and other stories V. S. Pritchett
- 1989 A Turbulent, seditious and factious people - John Bunyan and his church Christopher Hill
- 1988 The Fatal shore: a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 Robert Hughes
- 1987 Collected poems 1953 - 1985 Elizabeth Jennings
- 1986 The Good terrorist Doris Lessing
- 1985 The Pork butcher David Hughes
- 1984 Required writing Philip Larkin
- 1983 Wise virgin A.N. Wilson
- 1982 Last Waltz in Vienna: the destruction of a family 1842-1942 George Clare
- 1981 The Shooting party Isabel Colegate
- 1980 Selected Poems Thom Gunn
- 1979 Life in the English country house Mark Girouard
- 1978 A Time of gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor
- 1977 Slim: The Standardbearer Ronald Lewin
- 1976 North Seamus Heaney
- 1975 Wilfred Owen Jon Stallworthy
- 1974 Temporary kings Anthony Powell
- 1973 Catholics Brian Moore
- 1972 The Lost Country Kathleen Raine
- 1971 New lives, new landscapes Nan Fairbrother
- 1970 The French Lieutenant's woman John Fowles
- 1969 John Keats Robert Gittings
- 1968 Mimic men V. S. Naipaul
- 1967 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
- 1966 A Child possessed R. C. Hutchinson
- 1965 Beginning again Leonard Woolf
- 1964 Meditations on a hobby-horse Ernst H. Gombrich
- 1963 The Birthday King Gabriel Fielding
- 1962 We think the world of you J. R. Ackerley
- 1961 Friday's footprint Nadine Gordimer
- 1960 Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee
- 1959 Voss Patrick White
