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
Children's Book
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Elizabeth Arnold, The Parsley Parcel
- Philip Ridley, Kasper in the Glitter
Novel
Winner:
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
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