1989 Whitbread Awards

The Whitbread Awards (1971–2005), called Costa Book Awards since 2006, are literary awards in the United Kingdom, awarded both for high literary merit but also for works considered enjoyable reading. 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

• Lindsay Clarke, The Chymical Wedding

Biography

• Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions

Poetry

• Michael Donaghy, Shibboleth

References

• Previous winners