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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.

Overall Winner

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Novel Award

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At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison

First Novel Award

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The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer

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Biography Award

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The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding

John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr

4.5star.jpg Biography

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died, the work for which he is most famous, 'Brief Lives', was a disorganised collection of manuscripts which remained unpublished for over a century.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. Full review...

Poetry Award

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40 Sonnets by Don Paterson

Other Books on the Shortlist

Physical by Andrew McMillan

The Observances by Kate Miller

Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson


Children's Book Award

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Sophie Someone by Hayley Long

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Jessica's Ghost by Andrew Norriss

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