ShowbizThe Whitbread 2004 shortlistLuke Leitch|Evening Standard11 April 2012There are five categories all vying for the £5,000 Whitbread best novel prize. BEST NOVELCase Histories, Kate Atkinson Birds Without Wings, Louis de Bernières The Line Of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst Small IslandFIRST NOVELJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke The Land As Viewed From The Sea, Richard Collins Eve Green, Susan Fletcher The Maze,BIOGRAPHYJabez: 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,POETRYThese Days, Leontia Flynn Ghosts, John Fuller Ground Water, Matthew Hollis Corpus,CHILDREN'S BOOKLooking For JJ, Anne Cassidy Not The End Of The World, Geraldine McCaughrean How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff No Shame, No Fear, Ann Turnbull MORE ABOUTAuthorsCastlesFictionHistoryLiterature