1995 Whitbread Awards

Book of the Year

:Kate Atkinson, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum"

Children's Book

Winner:
*Michael Morpurgo, "The Wreck of the Zanzibar"Shortlist:
*Elizabeth Arnold, "The Parsley Parcel"
*Philip Ridley, "Kasper in the Glitter"

First Novel

Winner:
*Kate Atkinson, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum"Shortlist:
*Stephen Blanchard, "Gagarin & I"
*Alan Warner, "Morvern Callar"

Novel

Winner:
*Salman Rushdie, "The Moor's Last Sigh"Shortlist:
*Martin Amis, "The Information"
*Pat Barker, "The Ghost Road"
*Justin Cartwright, "In Every Face I Meet"
*Kazuo Ishiguro, "The Unconsoled"

Biography

Winners:
*Roy Jenkins, "Gladstone"Shortlist:
*Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge, "Vera Brittain – A Life"
*Gitta Sereny, "Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth"
*Geoffrey Wansell, "Terence Rattigan"

Poetry

Winner:
*Bernard O’Donoghue, "Gunpowder"

Shortlist:
*Simon Armitage, "The Dead Sea Poems"
*Tony Harrison, "The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems"
*Glyn Maxwell, "Rest for the Wicked"