1989 Whitbread Awards
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 1989.
Winners
Book of the Year
- Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions
Children's Book
- Hugh Scott, Why Weeps the Brogan?
First Novel
- James Hamilton-Paterson, Gerontius
Novel
Biography
- Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions
Poetry
- Michael Donaghy, Shibboleth
