Spear's Book Award2010

Given by Spear's Magazine

32 Works / 33 Items 22,569 Books 866 Reviews ½ 4.0
Spear's Book Awards were awarded in a number of categories between 2009 and 2014. In 2009, the awards jury picked books which went on to win the Man Booker Prize and the FT/Goldman Sachs Prize.




In show more 2010 the categories included:




Citi Private Bank Financial History of the Year

Financial Book of the Year

Biography of the Year

Family History of the Year

Social History of the Year

Illustrated Book of the Year

Novel of the Year

Spear's Special Awards:

For Best First Book

For Outstanding Achievement for a body of work

For an Outstandingly Produced Book

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Stages:
All, Spear's (33), Shortlist (138), No Stage (48)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2014 (30), 2013 (28), 2012 (32), 2011 (33), 2010 (33), 2009 (63)

Shortlist 25

WorkCategoryYear
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography by Selina HastingsBiography2010
Titian: The Last Days by Mark HudsonBiography2010
Trotsky: A Biography by Robert ServiceBiography2010
Alan Clark: The Biography by Ion TrewinBiography2010
I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John LanchesterFinancial Book Of The Year2010
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael LewisFinancial Book Of The Year2010
The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers by Vicky WardFinancial Book Of The Year2010
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History by Gregory ZuckermanFinancial Book Of The Year2010
False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World by Alan BeattieFinancial History2010
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. ReinhartFinancial History2010
The Great Depression: A Diary by Benjamin RothFinancial History2010
Don't Blame the Shorts: Why Short Sellers Are Always Blamed for Market Crashes and How History Is Repeating Itself by Robert SloanFinancial History2010
The Fat Duck Cookbook by Heston BlumenthalIllustrated Book2010
Lost London, 1870-1945 by Philip DaviesIllustrated Book2010
The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places by Alexandra KoturIllustrated Book2010
The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice by Deanna PetherbridgeIllustrated Book2010
Great Gardens of America by Tim RichardsonIllustrated Book2010
The Pregnant Widow by Martin AmisNovel2010
Lustrum by Robert HarrisNovel2010
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregorNovel2010
This Bleeding City by Alex PrestonNovel2010
Gentlemen & Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844 by Nicholas FoulkesSocial History2010
Splendour & Squalor: The Disgrace and Disintegration of Three Aristocratic Dynasties by Marcus ScrivenSocial History2010
This Party's Got to Stop by Rupert ThomsonSocial History2010
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell2010

No Stage 8

WorkCategoryYear
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic by Michael ScammellBiography2010
Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles by Robert Sackville-WestFamily History2010
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves by Andrew Ross SorkinFinancial Book2010
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John CassidyFinancial History2010
This Bleeding City by Alex PrestonFirst Book2010
Elizabethan Architecture (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by Mark GirouardIllustrated Book2010
Love and Summer by William TrevorNovel2010
Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor by Tad FriendSocial History2010

Descriptions

Spear's Book Awards were awarded in a number of categories between 2009 and 2014. In 2009, the awards jury picked books which went on to win the Man Booker Prize and the FT/Goldman Sachs Prize.


In 2010 the categories included:


Citi Private Bank Financial History of the Year

Financial Book of the Year

Biography of the Year

Family History of the Year

Social History of the Year

Illustrated Book of the Year

Novel of the Year

Spear's Special Awards:

For Best First Book

For Outstanding Achievement for a body of work

For an Outstandingly Produced Book

(English, Wikipedia)
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear%27s_Wealth_Management_Survey
The Spear's Book Awards were first awarded in 2009. (English, Member-written)

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