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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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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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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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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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