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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerEdith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among LionsVictoria GlendinningHer looks attracted Cecil Beaton and the principal painters of the day. Among her friends were Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein. She rebuffed Wyndham Lewis and ardently loved the temperamental Russian painter, Pavel Tchelitchew. The 1930s she ...Amazon
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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerMidnight's ChildrenSalman RushdieSaleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincide...Amazon
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1982 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1982 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1982 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerOn the Black HillBruce ChatwinIdentical twins Lewis and Benjamin Jones farm their Welsh Borders property, "The Vision," for half a century, their vigor, pain, angers, and involvements leading them to a sense of salvation....Amazon
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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1983 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1983 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerFranz Liszt: Volume 1. The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847Alan WalkerThe first volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."--D. Kern Holoman,...Amazon
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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1983 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1983 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerAllegro PostillionsJonathan KeatesMassacre and revolution in the mountains of Calabria, passion and betrayal in a Venetian opera house, a web of baffled desire spun during a summer in Verona, a world where exile kills more swiftly than death itself, where innocence becomes a lethal weapon,...Amazon
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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerVirginia Woolf: A Writer's LifeLyndall GordonThis prize-winning biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an explorer...Amazon
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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerEmpire of the SunJ.G. BallardThe classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events...Amazon
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1985 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1985 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1985 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerJonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed, A Critical BiographyDavid NokesDepicts the life and personality of Jonathan Swift, analyzes his writings, and discusses his activities as a churchman, satirist, and politician...Amazon
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