The Whitbread Award for Biography
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
- Matisse The Master Winner (and Book of the Year)
- Hilary Spurling
- Haw-Haw The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce
- Nigel Farndale
- Nature Cure
- Richard Mabey
- Stuart: A Life Backwards
- Alexander Masters
- Matisse The Master
- Hilary Spurling
- 2004 My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots John Guy
- 2003 Orwell: The Life D J Taylor
- 2002 Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled self Claire Tomalin (and Book of the Year)
- 2001 Selkirk's island Diana Souhami
- 2000 Bad blood: a memoir Lorna Sage
- 1999 Berlioz, volume 2 David Cairns
- 1998 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire Amanda Foreman
- 1997 Victor Hugo Graham Robb
- 1996 Thomas Cranmer: a life Diarmaid MacCulloch
- 1995 Gladstone Roy Jenkins
- 1994 The Married man: a life of D. H. Lawrence Brenda Maddox
- 1993 Philip Larkin Andrew Motion
- 1992 Trollope Victoria Glendinning
- 1991 A life of Picasso John Richardson (and Book of the Year)
- 1990 A A Milne: his life Ann Thwaite (and Book of the Year)
- 1989 Coleridge: early visions Richard Holmes (and Book of the Year)
- 1988 Tolstoy A. N. Wilson
- 1987 Under the eye of the clock Christopher Nolan (and Book of the Year)
- 1986 Gilbert White Richard Mabey
- 1985 Hugh Dalton Pen Pimlott
- 1984 T. S. Eliot Peter Ackroyd
- 1983 King George V Kenneth Rose
- 1983 Vita Victoria Glendinning
- 1982 Bismarck Edward Crankshaw
- 1981 Monty: The making of a general Nigel Hamilton
- 1980 On the edge of paradise: A. C. Benson the Diarist David Newsome
