Whitbread Book of the Year

Whitbread Book of the Year
a major British literary prize, organized and paid for by Whitbread. At the beginning of January each year, five new British or Irish books are chosen as the best book of their type: best novel, best first novel, best book of poems, best biography and best children’s book. At the end of the month, one of the five is chosen as the book of the year.

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