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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

2010 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2010 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Lotus EatersTatjana SoliA New York Times Best Seller! A New York Times Notable Book! A unique and sweeping debut novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War, as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men. On a stifli...Amazon2010 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistLa Rochelle: A NovelMichael NathAmazonThe Invisible Bridge: A NovelJulie OrringerAmazonThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A NovelDavid MitchellAmazon
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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian ImaginationFiona MacCarthyIn Fiona MacCarthy’s riveting account, Burne-Jones’s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic aud...Amazon2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistBen Jonson: A LifeIan DonaldsonAmazonMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning MarableAmazonNikolaus Pevsner: The LifeSusie HarriesAmazon
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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerYou & IPadgett PowellWhen asked for a list of the best young American writers, I invariably put Padgett Powell at the top' Saul BellowThis book is a conversation, apparently on a porch, between two men who may be difficult to grasp. They move together in aimless convenient de...Amazon2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistSnowdrops: A NovelA.D. MillerAmazonSolaceBelinda McKeonAmazonThere but for theAli SmithAmazon
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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the CountercultureTanya HarrodBritish studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. After graduating from Oxford in 1923, he made majestic slipwar...Amazon2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistCirculation: William Harvey's Revolutionary IdeaThomas WrightAmazonJoseph Anton: A MemoirSalman RushdieAmazonPortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceMichael GorraAmazon
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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Deadman's PedalAlan WarnerWinner of the James Tait Black Fiction Prize For 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there is not a lot to do. Going nowhere, fed up with school, he leaves to work as a driver on the trains. That summer he is introduced to a world of grown-up glamour, strikes and g...Amazon2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistLeaving the Atocha Station: A NovelBen LernerAmazonThe Big MusicKirsty GunnAmazonThe PanopticonJenni FaganAmazon
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1973 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1973 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1973 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerBeyond ApolloBarry N. MalzbergA two-man mission to Venus fails and is aborted; when it returns, the Captain is missing and the other astronaut, Harry M. Evans, is unable to explain what has happened. Or, conversely, he has too many explications; his journal of the expedition--compiled ...Amazon1973 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistDarkening IslandChristopher PriestAmazonThe ListenersJames E. GunnAmazon
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1974 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1974 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1974 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerMalevilRobert MerleWhen a nuclear holocaust destroys the world, a group of survivors create a society similar to that of medieval Europe....AmazonRendezvous with RamaArthur C. ClarkeA science-fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama is one of Arthur C. Clarke's best novels and a winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards....Amazon1974 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistThe EmbeddingIan WatsonAmazonThe Green GenePeter DickinsonAmazon
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1975 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1975 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1975 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerFlow My Tears, the Policeman SaidPhilip K. Dick"Grappling with many of the themes Philip K. Dick is best known for--identity, altered reality, drug use, and dystopias--Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is both a rollicking chase story and a meditation on reality. Jason Taverner--talk show host and man-...Amazon1975 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistThe DispossessedUrsula K. Le GuinAmazon
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