1995 Whitbread Awards

Book of the Year

• Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum

  Children's Book

• Michael Morpurgo, The Wreck of the Zanzibar

• Elizabeth Arnold, The Parsley Parcel
• Philip Ridley, Kasper in the Glitter

  First Novel

• Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum

• Stephen Blanchard, Gagarin & I
• Alan Warner, Morvern Callar

  Novel

• Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh

• Martin Amis, The Information
• Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
• Justin Cartwright, In Every Face I Meet
• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

  Biography

• Roy Jenkins, Gladstone

• Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge, Vera Brittain – A Life
• Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
• Geoffrey Wansell, Terence Rattigan

  Poetry

• Bernard O'Donoghue, Gunpowder

• Simon Armitage, The Dead Sea Poems
• Tony Harrison, The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems
• Glyn Maxwell, Rest for the Wicked