1987 Whitbread Awards

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The Whitbread Awards (since 2006 called the Costa Book Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1987.

Contents 1 Book of the Year 2 Children's Book 3 First Novel 4 Novel 5 Biography 6 Poetry

[edit] Book of the Year

Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock

[edit] Children's Book

Winner:

• Geraldine McCaughrean, A Little Lower than the Angels

[edit] First Novel

Winner:

• Francis Wyndham, The Other Garden

[edit] Novel

Winner:

• Ian McEwan, The Child in Time

[edit] Biography

Winners:

• Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock

[edit] Poetry

Winners:

• Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern