1995 Whitbread Awards
The Whitbread Awards (1971–2005), called Costa Book Awards since 2006, are literary awards in the United Kingdom, awarded both for high literary merit but also for works considered enjoyable reading. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1995.
Book of the Year[]
Children's Book[]
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Elizabeth Arnold, The Parsley Parcel
- Philip Ridley, Kasper in the Glitter
First Novel[]
Winner:
Shortlist:
- , Gagarin & I
- Alan Warner, Morvern Callar
Novel[]
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Martin Amis, The Information
- Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
- Justin Cartwright, In Every Face I Meet
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
Biography[]
Winners:
- Roy Jenkins, Gladstone
Shortlist:
- Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge, Vera Brittain – A Life
- Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
- , Terence Rattigan
Poetry[]
Winner:
- Bernard O'Donoghue, Gunpowder
Shortlist:
- Simon Armitage, The Dead Sea Poems
- Tony Harrison, The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems
- Glyn Maxwell, Rest for the Wicked
References[]
Categories:
- Costa Book Awards
- 1995 literary awards
- 1995 awards in the United Kingdom