James Tait Black Memorial Prize Winners

James Tait Black Memorial Prizes established in 1919 are (along with Hawthornden Prize) Britain's oldest literary awards.

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Winners

	In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 2,797 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crudo by Olivia Laing (Goodreads Author) 3.28 avg rating — 5,327 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Attrib. and other stories by Eley Williams 3.92 avg rating — 835 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown 3.34 avg rating — 5,848 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th-Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece by Laura Cumming 3.81 avg rating — 1,305 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride 3.85 avg rating — 3,439 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro 4.05 avg rating — 1,744 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Don't Have to Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits 2.96 avg rating — 586 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family by Richard Benson 4.32 avg rating — 118 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman 3.66 avg rating — 3,971 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee 4.04 avg rating — 415 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harvest by Jim Crace 3.61 avg rating — 7,928 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the Counterculture by Tanya Harrod 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner 3.92 avg rating — 175 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You & Me by Padgett Powell 3.39 avg rating — 481 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy 4.23 avg rating — 301 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 11,589 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth by Hilary Spurling 3.81 avg rating — 1,072 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey 4.17 avg rating — 92 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt 3.67 avg rating — 14,748 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd 3.68 avg rating — 101 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry 3.80 avg rating — 17,416 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill 4.10 avg rating — 71 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Horses in Egypt by Rosalind Belben 3.42 avg rating — 36 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas by Byron Rogers 4.35 avg rating — 126 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road by Cormac McCarthy 3.97 avg rating — 716,458 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream by Sue Prideaux 4.09 avg rating — 152 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saturday by Ian McEwan 3.63 avg rating — 62,539 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate 4.26 avg rating — 114 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	GB84 by David Peace 3.76 avg rating — 1,067 ratings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars