1995 Whitbread Awards

The Whitbread Awards (1971–2005), called Costa Book Awards since 2006, are literary awards in the United Kingdom, awarded both for high literary merit but also for works considered enjoyable reading. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1995.

Book of the Year

• Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Children's Book

Winner:

• Michael Morpurgo, The Wreck of the Zanzibar

Shortlist:

• Elizabeth Arnold, The Parsley Parcel
• Philip Ridley, Kasper in the Glitter

First Novel

Winner:

• Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Shortlist:

• Stephen Blanchard, Gagarin & I
• Alan Warner, Morvern Callar

Novel

Winner:

• Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh

Shortlist:

• Martin Amis, The Information
• Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
• Justin Cartwright, In Every Face I Meet
• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

Biography

Winners:

• Roy Jenkins, Gladstone

Shortlist:

• Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge, Vera Brittain – A Life
• Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
• Geoffrey Wansell, Terence Rattigan

Poetry

Winner:

• Bernard O’Donoghue, Gunpowder

Shortlist:

• Simon Armitage, The Dead Sea Poems
• Tony Harrison, The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems
• Glyn Maxwell, Rest for the Wicked

References

• Previous winners