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Costa Book Awards 2009
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Costa First Novel Award 2009
Costa Novel Award 2009
Costa Biography Award 2009
Costa Poetry Award 2009
Costa Children's Book Award 2009
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Beauty
Raphael Selbourne
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "Captures the raw humanity of inner city life with extraordinary authenticity."
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
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The Girl with Glass Feet
Ali Shaw
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "This beautiful book captured our imagination, exquisitely blending reality and fantasy."
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/05/2009
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John the Revelator
Peter Murphy
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "An original and sensitive exploration of adolescence - elegantly and beautifully written."
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
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The Finest Type of English Womanhood
Rachel Heath
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "We loved this dark and gripping story which merges fact and fiction so powerfully."
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/03/2009
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Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "A wonderfully-observed story of love and loss."
A great family drama about a young girl moving from Ireland to New Yok in search of work in the 1950's. Just...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2009
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The Elephant Keeper
Christopher Nicholson
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "This is an unusual and absorbing story - a real discovery."
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/01/2009
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Coda
Simon Gray
Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "Black humour with the lightest touch."
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2009
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The Music Room
William Fiennes
Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "A beautifully-written evocation of place, loss and family."
William Fiennes' account of growing up at Broughton Castle is charming and full of detail. It makes all those childhood dreams...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/04/2009
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A Scattering
Christopher Reid
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2009.
Josephine Hart, chair of the final judges, said: ”Out of a personal tragedy, Christopher Reid has written a masterwork which has universal power. Austere, beautiful and moving – we all felt...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/01/2009
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Darwin: A Life in Poems
Ruth Padel
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "A fascinating and original work that recreates the life of its subject in rich, diverse language."
Format: Hardback - Released: 12/02/2009
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One Eye'd Leigh
Katharine Kilalea
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "A humorous, unpredictable and imaginative debut. Kilalea makes deceptively well-crafted poems that are like sculptures."
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/04/2009
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Angels Over Elsinore
Clive James
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "Beautifully written, intelligent, full of ideas clearly communicated and feelings perfectly encapsulated - these are proper poems with musical structure that are clever, moving and memorable."
Featured on...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/11/2008
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The Ask and the Answer
Patrick Ness
Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "A strikingly original and compelling work."
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009.
Prize-winning author Patrick Ness follows up The Knife of Never...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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Solace of the Road
Siobhan Dowd
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "We were captivated by this beautifully-written, poignant and ultimately heart-warming story."
Beautifully written and achingly moving, Solace of the Road is the poignant and desperate story of one...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/02/2009
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Guantanamo Boy
Anna Perera
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "An important and moving story of an ordinary teenage boy innocently caught up in a modern-day nightmare which exposes the shortcomings of contemporary justice."
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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Troubadour
Mary Hoffman
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "We loved this terrific historical adventure story with its passionate and gutsy heroine."
There’s romance, intrigue, religion and bloodshed all tightly interwoven in this historical thriller. Rather than...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2009
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "One of the outstanding books of the year - historical fiction at its best."
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/04/2009
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Family Album
Penelope Lively
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "An acutely-studied and skilful dissection of middle-class family life."
Such a cosy thing: comfortable middle-class family life. But in the large, well-worn domain...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/08/2009
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Costa Awards Overall Winner announced 26 Jan 2009 was won by Christopher Reid for
A Scattering.
The Costa Book Awards, formerly The Whitbread Awards, established in 1971, have the single aim of celebrating the most enjoyable books of the last year by writers based in the UK and Ireland.
It is the fourth year of Costa sponsoring this prestigious award. The Costa Book Awards recognise the most enjoyable books in five categories - First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book - published in the last year by writers based in the UK and Ireland.
This year's Costa Book Awards attracted 592 entries - the second highest-ever number of submissions in one year.
This year's lists include Hilary Mantel, Colm Tóibín, Clive James, William Fiennes and Penelope Lively.
The judging panel for the 2009 Costa Book Awards includes actor and writer Neil Pearson; broadcaster and journalist Fiona Phillips; authors Sandra Howard and Sophie Hannah; writers William Nicholson and Ben Macintyre; and biographer and historian, Robert Lacey. |
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