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1975 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Great Victorian CollectionBrian MooreSet in a fantastic, surreal world, 'The Great Victorian Collection' is a fascinating exploration of the disturbing, intangible nature of reality. "Moore is a brilliant storyteller, a novelist of great subtlety and depth....Amazon
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1977 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1977 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1977 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Honourable SchoolboyJohn le CarréTrying to rebuild his espionage organization after a traitor is unmasked, George Smiley sends one of his most trusted agents on a mission to the Far East....Amazon
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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Older HardyRobert GittingsClaire Clairmont, stepsister of Mary Shelley and mother of Byron's illegitimate daughter Allegra, has never been given a full biographical treatment until this acclaimed biography by the late Robert Gittings and Jo Manton. Drawing on her vivid letters and ...Amazon
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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerPlumbMaurice GeeThe Trilogy brings together the three novels Plumb, Meg and Sole Survivor to set up a family saga unrivalled by anything in New Zealand literature. In Plumb, Gee introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb. It won the New Zealand Fict...Amazon
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1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1979 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1979 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerDarkness VisibleWilliam GoldingWinner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Darkness Visible opens at the height of the London Blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved but hideously scarred, soon tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a w...Amazon
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1980 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1980 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1980 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerTennyson: The Unquiet HeartRobert Bernard MartinThe lyric perfection of the works of Alfred Tennyson, one of the greatest Victorian poets, and the apparent ease with which he wrote them, long obscured the disparity between the unruffled surface of many of his poems and his deeply disturbed life. Somersb...Amazon
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