It won the 1977 Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
Whitbread Book of the Year (1980) for How Far Can You Go?
Early this year it won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize.
It was Burn's first novel and won the Whitbread Book Award in 1991.
Swing Hammer Swing was Whitbread Book of the Year in 1992.
The winners in each category compete for the $45,550 Whitbread Book of the Year award, to be announced on Jan. 27.
The 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Awards was a book award ceremony that took place in 2002.
Whitbread Book of the Year in 2004.
Literary For the first time, Britain's Whitbread Book of the Year prize has gone to a children's book author.
It won England's Whitbread Book of the Year Award for 1988.