The shortlists for the 2004 Whitbread Book Awards have been announced, with Man Booker and Orange Prize winners among the nominees.
This year's Man Booker winner Alan Hollinghurst is nominated for the Whitbread Novel Award for his book 'The Line of Beauty', and is joined on the shortlist by former Whitbread winner Kate Atkinson ('Case Histories'), Louis de Bernières ('Birds Without Wings') and Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy ('Small Island').
Susanna Clarke, whose acclaimed book 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' has just been published, is a First Novel Award nominee, with Richard Collins ('The Land as Viewed from the Sea'), Susan Fletcher ('Eve Green') and Panos Karnezis ('The Maze') also nominated.
The nominees for the Children's Book Award are: Anne Cassidy ('Looking for JJ'), Geraldine McCaughrean ('Not the End of the World'), Meg Rosoff ('How I Live Now') and Ann Turnbull ('No Shame, No Fear').
Belfast-born Leontia Flynn is nominated for the Whitbread Poetry Award for 'These Days', and is joined on the shortlist by John Fuller ('Ghosts'), Matthew Hollis ('Ground Water') and Michael Symmons Roberts ('Corpus').
The nominees for the Biography Award are: John Guy ('My Heart is my Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots'), David McKie ('Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue'), John Sutherland ('Stephen Spender') and Jeremy Treglown ('VS Pritchett: A Life').
The winners in the five categories will each receive £5,000 and will be announced on 6 January 2005. The overall winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year will be announced at a ceremony in London on 25 January 2005 and will receive £25,000.
