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Book Awards By Year

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1991 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1991 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerDarwin: The Life of a Tormented EvolutionistAdrian Desmond, James MooreA biography of the naturalist disputes misconceptions, discussing how Darwin concealed his theory of evolution for twenty years, agonizing over its implications and the impact it would have on his social standing....Amazon
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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1992 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1992 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher MarloweCharles NichollA brilliant mix of detective story, history and biography. In 1593, the controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house and the official account -- a violent quarrel over the bill -- has long been regarde...Amazon
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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1992 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1992 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerSacred CountryRose TremainCertain that she is really a male trapped in a female's body, Mary Ward pursues this elusive identity, much to the consternation of her mother, her brother, and a neighbor's son, in an acclaimed novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Reprint....Amazon
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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1993 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1993 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerDr. Johnson & Mr. SavageRichard HolmesA classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography....Amazon
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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1993 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1993 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerCrossing the RiverCaryl PhillipsShortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Caryl Phillips’ ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journey...Amazon
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1994 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerUnder My Skin: Volume 1 of My Autobiography, to 1949Doris May LessingThe first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of ‘The Grass is Singing’ and ‘The Golden Notebook’, and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994....Amazon
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1994 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Folding StarAlan HollinghurstEdward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst....Amazon
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1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1995 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1995 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerAlbert Speer: His Battle With TruthGitta SerenyA profile of Albert Speer is based on letters, interviews, and personal writings, and details his unhappy childhood, friendship with Hitler, and remorse over his crimes....Amazon
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1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1995 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1995 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Prestige: A NovelChristopher PriestTwo 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-and-ve...Amazon
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