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The Whitbread 2004 shortlist

Luke Leitch|Evening Standard
11 April 2012

There are five categories all vying for the £5,000 Whitbread best novel prize.

BEST NOVEL

  • Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
  • Birds Without Wings, Louis de Bernières
  • The Line Of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
Small Island

FIRST NOVEL

  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
  • The Land As Viewed From The Sea, Richard Collins
  • Eve Green, Susan Fletcher
The Maze,

BIOGRAPHY

  • Jabez: The Rise And Fall Of A Victorian Rogue, David McKie
  • Stephen Spender, John Sutherland
  • My Heart Is My Own: The Life Of Mary Queen Of Scots, John Guy
VS Pritchett: A Life,

POETRY

  • These Days, Leontia Flynn
  • Ghosts, John Fuller
  • Ground Water, Matthew Hollis
Corpus,

CHILDREN'S BOOK

  • Looking For JJ, Anne Cassidy
  • Not The End Of The World, Geraldine McCaughrean
  • How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff
  • No Shame, No Fear, Ann Turnbull

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