Yorkshire Post Book Award

Other Names: Yorkshire Post Book of the Year
69 Works / 70 Items 39,091 Books 593 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, Best First Work (26), Biography Awrad (1), Book of the Year (9), Finest Fiction (8), First Prize (19), Nonfiction award (1), Novel of the Year (5), Special History Award (1)
Years:
All, 1998 (1), 1997 (2), 1996 (2), 1995 (2), 1994 (2), 1993 (2), 1992 (2), 1991 (2), 1990 (3), 1989 (1), 1988 (2), 1987 (2), 1986 (2), 1985 (3), 1984 (2), 1983 (4), 1982 (3), 1981 (3), 1980 (3), 1979 (3), 1978 (2), 1977 (3), 1976 (3), 1975 (4), 1974 (4), 1973 (4), 1972 (4)
WorkCategoryYear
All Points North by Simon Armitage
Book of the Year1998
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best First Work1997
The Star Factory by Ciaran Carson
Book of the Year1997
Acts of Revision by Martyn Bedford
Best First Work1996
The younger Pitt by John Ehrman
Book of the Year1996
Gagarin and I by Stephen Blanchard
Best First Work1995
The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State by Nicholas Timmins
Book of the Year1995
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
Best First Work1994
The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors by Juliet Barker
Book of the Year1994
The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones
Best First Work1993
Franco: A Biography by Paul Preston
Book of the Year1993
Stalin's Nose: Across the Face of Europe by Rory MacLean
Best First Work1992
Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy by John Gross
Book of the Year1992
Forgotten Land ( A Rediscovery of Burma) by Harriet O'Brien
Best First Work1991
Engage the Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War by Correlli Barnett
Book of the Year1991
In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple
Best First Work1990
Epics of Everyday Life: Encounters in a Changing Russia by Susan Richards
Best First Work1990
Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in his World by Richard Mullen
First Prize1990
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
First Prize1989
The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood by Shusha Guppy
Best First Work1988
The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor
First Prize1988
The Cartomancer by Anne Spillard
Best First Work1987
1914 by Lyn Macdonald
First Prize1987
Duff Cooper: The Authorized Biography by John Charmley
Best First Work1986
Anthony Eden by Robert Rhodes James
First Prize1986
Pictures from the Water Trade: Adventures of a Westerner in Japan by John David Morley
Best First Work1985
The Right of the Line by John Terraine
First Prize1985
Unexplained Laughter by Alice Thomas Ellis
Novel of the Year1985
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Max Hastings
First Prize1984
Stanley and the Women by Kingsley Amis
Novel of the Year1984
Montgomery in Europe, 1943-1945: Success or failure? by Richard Lamb
Best First Work1983
King George V by Kenneth Rose
Biography Awrad1983
The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings
First Prize1983
Act of Darkness by Francis King
Novel of the Year1983
Alanbrooke by David Fraser
Best First Work1982
Clinging to the Wreckage by John Mortimer
First Prize1982
Getting It Right by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Novel of the Year1982
Churchill and De Gaulle by François Kersaudy
Best First Work1981
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
First Prize1981
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Novel of the Year1981
The Victorians and Ancient Greece by Richard Jenkyns
Best First Work1980
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
Finest Fiction1980
George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick
First Prize1980
Clementine Churchill by Mary Soames
Best First Work1979
The Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston
Finest Fiction1979
Dickens: A Life by Norman Ian MacKenzie
First Prize1979
Lady unknown: The life of Angela Burdett-Coutts by Edna Healey
Best First Work1978
Bligh by Gavin Kennedy
First Prize1978
The cousins : the friendship, opinions and activities of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and George Wyndham by Max Egremont
Best First Work1977
The Danger Tree by Olivia Manning
Finest Fiction1977
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne
First Prize1977
Some touch of pity by Rhoda Edwards
Best First Work1976
Afternoon of a Good Woman by Nina Bawden
Finest Fiction1976
The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution, 1825-1917 by Edward Crankshaw
First Prize1976
Among the Elephants by Iain Douglas-Hamilton
Best First Work1975
Changing Places by David Lodge
Finest Fiction1975
Pope John XXIII (The Library of world biography) by Paul Johnson
First Prize1975
Pilgrimage: An Image of Mediaeval Religion by Jonathan Sumption
Special History Award1975
Emily Stone (Arena Books) by Anne Redmon
Best First Work1974
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
Finest Fiction1974
A Matter of Honour: An Account of the Indian Army, Its Officers and Men by Philip Mason
First Prize1974
In search of the red ape by John Ramsay MacKinnon
Nonfiction award1974
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
Best First Work1973
The Female Woman: An Argument against Women's Liberation, for Female Emancipation by Arianna Stassinopoulos
Best First Work1973
Stranger at the Gates = The Occupying Power = Sleeping With the Enemy by Evelyn Anthony
Finest Fiction1973
The Cecils of Hatfield House,: An English ruling family by David Cecil
First Prize1973
The Captains and the Kings by Jennifer Johnston
Best First Work1972
Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell
Book of the Year1972
The Needle's Eye by Margaret Drabble
Finest Fiction1972
Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell
First Prize1972

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