Best Book Made Up of Short Pieces: Ten Tales Tall and True by Alasdair Gray

 

 

Best Novel set in the Here and Now: Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins

 

 

Best First Meeting with an author: Company of Liars by Karen Maitland

 

 

 

Best Book reissued in the year: The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby

 

 

 

Best Flight of Fancy: The Love-Child by Edith Olivier

 

 

 

Best Journey Into The Real Past: Queen Emma and The Vikings by Harriet O’Brien

 

 

Best Journey Into an Imaginary Past: The Glass of Time by Michael Cox

 

 

 

Best Novel for Producing a Warm Glow: The Faithful Servants by Marjory Sharp

 

 

 

Best Not Quite Contemporary But Not Quite History Book: The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark

 

 

Best Book Received as a Gift: The Life and Death Of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair

 

 

Best Book Outside My Usual Range:The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

 

 

 

Best Virago Modern Classic Not Already Mentioned: A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor

 

 

 

Please don’t ask me to pick an overall winner – I really can’t!