2005 Whitbread Awards

Book of the Year

• Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master

  Children's Book

• Kate Thompson, The New Policeman

• Frank Cottrell Boyce, Framed
• Geraldine McCaughrean, The White Darkness
• Hilary McKay, Permanent Rose

  First Novel

• Tash Aw, The Harmony Silk Factory

• Diana Evans, 26a
• Peter Hobbs, The Short Day Dying
• Rachel Zadok, Gem Squash Tokoloshe

  Novel

• Ali Smith, the accidental

• Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
• Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown
• Christopher Wilson, The Ballad of Lee Cotton

  Biography

• Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master

• Nigel Farndale, Haw-Haw
• Richard Mabey, Nature Cure
• Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards

  Poetry

• Christopher Logue, Cold Calls

• David Harsent, Legion
• Richard Price, Lucky Day
• Jane Yeh, Marabou