BOOK AWARDS
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes 2007
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Founded in memory of a partner at A & C Black Ltd, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are awarded annually for the best work of fiction and the best biography (or work of that nature) published during the previous year.
They are awarded on the recommendation of John Frow, the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
The value of each prize is £3,000, derived from the James Tait Black Memorial Fund. Previous winners include DH Lawrence, EM Forster, Graham Greene and Salman Rushdie.
Winners (announced end of August)
The prize for Fiction - The Road by Cormac McCarthy published by Picador ISBN: 9780330447539
The prize for Biography - The Man Who Went into the West by Byron Rogers published by Aurum Press ISBN: 9781845131463
Shortlist 2006 (announced May)
| FICTION — Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Fourth Estate | 9780007200276 |
| Seven Lies | James Lasdun | Jonathan Cape | 9780224075923 |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Picador | 9780330447539 |
| The View from Castle Rock | Alice Munroe | Chatto & Windus | 9780701179892 |
| Electricity | Ray Robinson | Picador | 9780330444507 |
| The Night Watch | Sarah Waters | Virago | 9781844082469 |
| BIOGRAPHY — Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland | Carmen Callil | Jonathan Cape | 9780224078108 |
| Mellon: An American Life | David Cannadine | Allen Lane | 9780713995084 |
| John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity | Gillian Darley | Yale University Press | 9780300112276 |
| George Mackay Brown: The Life | Maggie Fergusson | John Murray | 9780719556593 |
| The Man Who Went into the West | Byron Rogers | Aurum Press | 9781845131463 |
| The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet | Kate Teltscher | Bloomsbury | 9780747584841 |
