2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner
The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas
Byron Rogers
Presenting the life of one of 20th century English literature’s greatest poets, this is a hilarious story of a singular man. Here the author unearths the story of R.S. Thomas’s life, and that of his household – one both comic, absurd and touching….
2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Shortlist
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland
Carmen Callil
George Mackay Brown: The Life
Maggie Fergusson
John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity
Gillian Darley
Mellon: An American Life
David Cannadine
