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2004 Whitbread Awards

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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 2004.

Contents

Dates

  • Thursday 6 January 2005 - Award winners announced in all five categories
  • Tuesday 25 January 2005 - Announcement of the Whitbread Book of the Year

    • Book of the Year

  • Andrea Levy, Small Island

    • Children's Book

    Winner:

  • Geraldine McCaughrean, Not the End of the World

    • Shortlist:

  • Anne Cassidy, Looking for JJ
  • Geraldine McCaughrean, Not the End of the World
  • Meg Rosoff - How I Live Now
  • Ann Turnbull - No Shame, No Fear

    • First Novel

    Winner:

  • Susan Fletcher, Eve Green

    • Shortlist:

  • Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  • Richard Collins, The Land as Viewed from the Sea
  • Susan Fletcher, Eve Green
  • Panos Karnezis, The Maze

    • Novel

    Winner:

  • Andrea Levy, Small Island

    • Shortlist:

  • Kate Atkinson, Case Histories
  • Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
  • Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
  • Andrea Levy, Small Island

    • Biography

    Winner:

  • John Guy, My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots

    • Shortlist:

  • John Guy, My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
  • David McKie, Jabez - The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue
  • John Sutherland, Stephen Spender
  • Jeremy Treglown, V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life

    • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Michael Symmons Roberts, Corpus

    • Shortlist:

  • Leontia Flynn, These Days
  • John Fuller, Ghosts
  • Matthew Hollis, Ground Water
  • Michael Symmons Roberts, Corpus

    • References

    2004 Whitbread Awards Wikipedia
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