W H Smith Book Award - Autobiography/Biography

2004

• Toast: The story of a boy's hunger Nigel Slater Winner

2003

• Life on air David Attenborough Winner
• Taking on the world Ellen MacArthur
• News from no man's land John Simpson
• The Kindness of strangers Kate Adie
• Things my mother never told me Blake Morrison

2002

• Billy Pamela Stephenson Winner
• Autobiography Betty Boothroyd
• Memoirs of an unfit mother Anne Robinson
• Give me ten seconds John Sergeant
• Madonna: an intimate biography J. Randy Taraborrelli

2001

• Elizabeth David Starkey Winner
• A Mad world, My masters: tales from a traveller's life John Simpson
• Branson Tom Bower
• Hitler, 1936-1945 Nemesis Ian Kershaw