Book Awards By Year

2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. ThomasByron RogersPresenting 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....Amazon2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistBad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and FatherlandCarmen CallilAmazonGeorge Mackay Brown: The LifeMaggie FergussonAmazonJohn Evelyn: Living for IngenuityGillian DarleyAmazonMellon: An American LifeDavid CannadineAmazonThe High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama, and the First British Expedition to TibetKate TeltscherAmazon

2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerGod's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic BritainRosemary HillDuring his short life Pugin was shipwrecked, bankrupted, widowed twice and driven to madness. Yet by the time of his death at forty he had changed the face of Britain with his visionary Gothic architecture, designing glorious churches, cathedrals, houses a...Amazon2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistEdith WhartonHermione LeeAmazonHand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTellMichael GrayAmazonJohn Stuart Mill: Victorian FirebrandRichard ReevesAmazonYoung StalinSimon Sebag MontefioreAmazon

2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerA Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable FamiliesMichael HolroydIt will be swiftly recognized as a classic. Please note: This ebook edition does not contain photos and illustrations that appeared in the print edition....Amazon2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistArthur MillerChristopher BigsbyAmazonChagall: A BiographyJackie WullschlagerAmazonEdward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and LoveSheila RowbothamAmazonGabriel García Márquez: A LifeGerald MartinAmazon

2009 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerWilliam Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the FliesJohn CareyIn 1953, William Golding was a provincial schoolteacher writing books on his breaks, lunch hours and holidays. His work had been rejected by every major publisher—until an editor at Faber and Faber pulled his manuscript off the rejection pile. This was to ...Amazon2009 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistCheever: A LifeBlake BaileyAmazonDifferent Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillanJann ParryAmazonMuriel Spark: The BiographyMartin StannardAmazonThe English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De QuinceyRobert MorrisonAmazon