BOOK AWARDS
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes 2008
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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)
Shortlist 2007 (announced August)
| FICTION — Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Our Horses in Egypt | Rosalind Belben | Chatto & Windus | 9780701175948 |
| The Devil's Footprints | John Burnside | Jonathan Cape | 9780224074889 |
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid | Hamish Hamilton | 9780241143704 |
| A Far Country | Daniel Mason | Picador | 9780330492706 |
| Salvage | Gee Williams | Alcemi | 9780955527203 |
| BIOGRAPHY — Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: in search of Blind Willie McTell | Michael Gray | Bloomsbury | 9780747565604 |
| God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain | Rosemary Hill | Allen Lane | 9780713994995 |
| Edith Wharton | Hermione Lee | Chatto & Windus | 9780701166656 |
| John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand | Richard Reeves | Atlantic Books | 9781843546436 |
| Young Stalin | Simon Sebag Montefiore | Weidenfeld & Nicholson | 9780297850687 |
