NCR Book Award
The NCR Book Award, established in 1987 and sponsored by NCR, was the UK's major award to non-fiction[1] It ended in 1998 and has been replaced by the Samuel Johnson Prize.[2]
Winners[3]
- 1988 David Thomson, Nairn in Darkness and Light (Hutchinson)
- 1989 Joe Simpson, Touching the Void (Jonathan Cape)
- 1990 Simon Schama, Citizens (Viking)
- 1991 Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman (Viking)
- 1992 Jung Chang, Wild Swans (HarperCollins)
- 1993 Peter Hennessy, Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 (Jonathan Cape)
- 1994 John Campbell, Edward Heath: A Biography (Jonathan Cape)
- 1995 Mark Hudson, Coming Back Brockens (Jonathan Cape)
- 1996 Eric Lomax, The Railway Man (Jonathan Cape)[4]
- 1997 Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy (Jonathan Cape) [5]
References
- ↑ NMSU Library Award Winning Books
- ↑ Book awards — The BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2005
- ↑ THE 1996 NCR BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION: SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
- ↑ Alibris: Prisoners and prisons Japanese
- ↑ Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 1999, BBC FOUR, The UK’s most Prestigious non-fiction award , The UK’s richest non-fiction prize
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