Kate Summerscale Wins 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize
by Ryan McBride - Tuesday Jul 15 2008 3:16 pm
Posted in: Awards, Mystery & Crime



UK author Kate Summerscale has been awarded the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for her book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. The book revisits the murder of a three-year-old boy in Victorian England and a Scotland Yard detective's efforts to solve the case.

The prize, worth $60,000, is awarded annually to the best work of non-fiction.






The other books on this year's shortlist are:



See:
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - hardcover
By Kate Summerscale - $28.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.It’s 1860. Saville Kent, age three, is murdered in an outdoor privy. The crime horrifies England. It leads to a national obsession that turns...

 

The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul - hardcover
By Patrick French - $36.00 - add to cart

V.S. Naipaul is the most compelling literary figure of the last fifty years. Producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and non-fiction, his is a gift born of a forceful, visionary impulse....

 

Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia - hardcover
By Orlando Figes - $40.50 - add to cart

From the award-winning author of A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance, a landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression There have been many a...

 

Blood River - trade paperback
By Tim Butcher - $21.95 - add to cart

Product Description A compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo — a country virtually inaccessible to the outside world — vividly told by a daring and adventurous journalist. Ever...

 

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century - hardcover
By Alex Ross - $33.00 - add to cart

The scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky’s Rite of Sp...

 




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