Whitbread shortlists 2001

Shortlisted Carl Tighe was rejected by 25 publishers

The 2001 Whitbread Award shortlists

Whitbread Novel Award

The Siege, by Helen Dunmore
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
Oxygen, by Andrew Miller
Twelve Bar Blues, by Patrick Neate

Whitbread First Novel Award

The Oversight, by Will Eaves
Something Like A House, by Sid Smith
Burning Worm, by Carl Tighe
August, by Gerard Woodward

Ibbotsen: A prize nominee at 76

Whitbread Poetry Award

The Age of Cardboard and String, by Charles Boyle
If I Don't Know, by Wendy Cope
Bunny, by Selima Hill
Panoramic Lounge-Bar, by John Stammers

Whitbread Biography Award

A View of Delft, by Anthony Bailey
Boswell's Presumptuous Task, by Adam Sisman
Selkirk's Island, by Diana Souhami
Flaubert: A Life, by Geoffrey Wall

Whitbread Children's Book of the Year

Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer
Journey to the River Sea, by Eva Ibbotson
The Lady and the Squire, by Terry Jones
The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman

The Whitbread Book of the Year is chosen from one of the winning books in the above categories.