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|title=Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life | |title=Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life | ||
|author=John Campbell | |author=John Campbell | ||
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|genre=Biography | |genre=Biography | ||
| − | |summary= | + | |summary=It must be rare indeed that a British political figure who never became Prime Minister is the subject of or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages of text. However, as John Campbell demonstrates in this volume, it is difficult to do justice to the life, times and career of Roy Jenkins in much less than that. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk> | ||
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Revision as of 08:06, 8 December 2014
The category shortlists were announced on 19 November and the individual category winners will be announced on 5 January: they each won £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) was announced on 27 January 2015.
Novel Award
First Novel Award
Biography Award
Poetry Award The Whole and Rain-domed Universe by Colette Bryce
My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw
The Cartographer Tries to May a Way to Zion by Kei Miller
Children's Book Award
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