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The category shortlists were announced on 17 November and the individual category winners will be announced on 4 January: they each win £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) will be announced on 26 January 2016. | The category shortlists were announced on 17 November and the individual category winners will be announced on 4 January: they each win £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) will be announced on 26 January 2016. | ||
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+ | |title=The Lie Tree | ||
+ | |author=Frances Hardinge | ||
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+ | |summary=Fans of Frances Hardinge will be familiar with the eerie, unreal atmosphere of her books. Mysteries lurk in the shadows, perplexing and sometimes menacing her characters, and the strange and the banal jostle each other for space on the page. A world both familiar and outlandish is offered to us, where once again a fallible but endearing heroine battles forces which threaten to overwhelm her at every turn. | ||
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|title=The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science | |title=The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science | ||
|author=Andrea Wulf | |author=Andrea Wulf | ||
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− | |summary= | + | |summary=Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in 1769, the younger brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but who is perhaps better remembered as a philosopher and linguist. The family was well-to-do and both brothers benefitted from an excellent education, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed mother, but it was a legacy from her which would fund Alexander's first explorations. His first travels would be in Europe where he met and was influenced by people such as Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, who had travelled with Thomas Cook. But it was his travels in Latin America which would lay the foundations for his life's work. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk> | ||
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|author=Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | |author=Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | ||
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− | |summary= | + | |summary=Think of iconic novels, and ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' will be near the top of your list. From the rabbit hole to the Mad Hatter's tea party and the Queen's cricket ground, Lewis Carroll's imagination has established itself firmly in Western cultural heritage: with a parade of characters ranging from the weird to the wonderful and a constant play with logic and language, Carroll's masterpiece has earned its place among classics. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558611</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558611</amazonuk> | ||
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− | |title=John Aubrey: My Own Life | + | |author= Ruth Scurr |
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− | |summary= | + | |summary=John Aubrey, the seventeenth-century antiquary, writer and archaeologist, occupies a peculiar, even unique place in English literature. When he died, the work for which he is most famous, 'Brief Lives', was a disorganised collection of manuscripts which remained unpublished for over a century. Only in the last hundred years or so has be become more widely recognised as an interesting character and perceptive commentator on society, scholarship and on his contemporaries during the post-restoration era. |
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Revision as of 09:21, 6 April 2018
The category shortlists were announced on 17 November and the individual category winners will be announced on 4 January: they each win £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) will be announced on 26 January 2016.
Overall Winner
Novel Award
Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison
First Novel Award
Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
Biography Award
Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
Poetry Award
Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
The Observances by Kate Miller
Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson
Children's Book Award
Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
Jessica's Ghost by Andrew Norriss
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