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James Tait Black Memorial Prize

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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1987 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1987 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Golden BirdGeorge MacKay BrownThese two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown's work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be threatened. The Golden B...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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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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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerBrazzaville Beach: A NovelWilliam BoydWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 'A brilliant storyteller . . . a book which stretches, tantalizes and delights' Financial Times _____________________________________ On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponders the str...Amazon
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles DickensClaire TomalinIn this remarkable work of biography and scholarly reconstruction, the acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys and Jane Austen rescues Nelly from the shadows of history, not only returning the neglected ......Amazon
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerA DisaffectionJames KelmanPatrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, he begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a ...Amazon
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerFederico Garcia Lorca: A LifeIan GibsonKnown primarily as a poet and dramatist, Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca published four books before his early death in the Spanish Civil War. This biography gives an account of his family, his homosexuality and his mysterious death, as well as tracin...Amazon
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