Whitbread Book Awards

The Whitbread Book Awards are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. The awards are named after and funded by Whitbread plc, a leading British leisure company.

Book of the Year Award Winners

• 2004 - Andrea Levy, Small Island
• 2003 - Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• 2002 - Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
• 2001 - Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
• 2000 - Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
• 1999 - Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
• 1998 - Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
• 1997 - Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid
• 1996 - Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level
• 1995 - Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
• 1994 - William Trevor, Felicia’s Journey
• 1993 - Joan Brady, Theory of War
• 1992 - Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!
• 1991 - John Richardson, A Life of Picasso
• 1990 - Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful Monsters
• 1989 - Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions
• 1988 - Paul Sayer, The Comforts of Madness
• 1987 - Christopher Nolan, Under the eye of the clock
• 1986 - Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
• 1985 - Douglas Dunn, Elegies
• 1984 - James Buchan, A Parish of Rich Women
• 1983 - John Fuller, Flying to Nowhere
• 1982 - Bruce Chatwin, On the Black Hill
• 1981 - William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa
• 1980 - David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?