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Whitbread Book Awards

2003 Book of the Year

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon (Novel)

The Whitbread Book Awards have five categories – First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book. One of the five winning books is then chosen as the overall Whitbread Book of the Year. The judges select well-written, enjoyable books published in the UK that they would strongly recommend to anyone. The awards were launched in 1971 by Whitbread PLC, one of the UK’s leading leisure companies. Each of the category winners receives £5,000, and the overall winner receives a further £25,000.

First Novel
Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre

Poetry
Landing Light
Don Paterson

Biography
Orwell: The Life
D J Taylor

Children's Book
The Fire-Eaters
David Almond

Book of the Year Winners

2002 - Samual Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Claire Tomalin
2001 - The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
2000 - English Passengers, Matthew Kneale
1999 - Beowulf, Seamus Heaney
1998 - Birthday Letters, Ted Hughes
1997 - Tales from Ovid, Ted Hughes
1996 - The Spirit Level, Seamus Heaney
1995 - Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson
1994 - Felicia's Journey, William Trevor
1993 - Theory of War, Joan Brady
1992 - Swing Hammer Swing!, Jeff Torrington
1991 - A Life of Picasso, John Richardson
1990 - Hopeful Monsters, Nicholas Mosley
1989 - Coleridge: Early Versions, Richard Holmes
1988 - The Comforts of Madness, Paul Sayer
1987 - Under the Eye of the Clock, Christopher Nolan
1986 - An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
1985 - Elegies, Douglas Dunn