UK author 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:
| Categories: Awards, Mystery & Crime |
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 ...
Winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. V.S. Naipaul is the most compelling literary figure of the last fifty years. Producing, uniquely, masterpieces of bot...
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 b...
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 journalis...
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 ...
