Awards & Winners

NCR Book Award

NCR Book Award

The NCR Book Award, established in 1987 and sponsored by NCR, was the UK's major award to non-fiction It ended in 1998 and has been replaced by the Samuel Johnson Prize.

Check all the winners of NCR Book Award presented under NCR Book Award since 1988 .


Orlando Figes

Honored for : A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Orlando Figes A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924

Eric Lomax

Honored for : The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Peter Godwin Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
Simon Schama Landscape and memory
Gitta Sereny Albert Speer
Eric Lomax The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness

Mark Hudson

Honored for : Coming Back Brockens a Year In a Mining

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Mark Hudson Coming Back Brockens a Year In a Mining

John Campbell

Honored for : Edward Heath

Nominations 1994 »

Nominee Nominated Work
John Campbell Edward Heath

Peter Hennessy

Honored for : Never Again Britain 45/51

Nominations 1993 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Christopher Hill The English Bible and the seventeenth-century revolution
Nick Hornby Fever Pitch
Lewis Wolpert The unnatural nature of science
Peter Hennessy Never Again Britain 45/51

Jung Chang

Honored for : Wild Swans

Nominations 1992 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jung Chang Wild Swans

Claire Tomalin

Honored for : The invisible woman

Nominations 1991 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Peter Ackroyd Dickens
Denis Forman Son of Adam
Mark Frankland The Patriots' Revolution
Hilary Spurling Paul Scott : a life
Claire Tomalin The invisible woman

Simon Schama

Honored for : Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

Nominations 1990 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Simon Schama Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

Joe Simpson

Honored for : Touching the Void

Nominations 1989 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Joe Simpson Touching the Void

David Thomson

Honored for : Nairn in darkness and light

Nominations 1988 »

Nominee Nominated Work
David Thomson Nairn in darkness and light