Books

Costa Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 126 books.


  1. Dotter of Her Father's Eyes

    by Mary M. Talbot, Bryan Talbot

    Year: 2012
    Category: Biography
  2. Patrick Leigh Fermor

    An Adventure

    by Artemis Cooper

    Year: 2012
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Shortlist
  3. The Crocodile By the Door

    The Story of a House, a Farm, and a Family

    by Selina Guinness

    Year: 2012
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Shortlist
  4. Serving Victoria

    Life in the Royal Household

    by Kate Hubbard

    Year: 2012
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Shortlist
  5. Wolf Hall Trilogy: Book 2

    Bring Up the Bodies

    by Hilary Mantel

    Year: 2012
    Category: Book of the Year
  6. Maggot Moon

    by Sally Gardner

    Year: 2012
    Category: Children's Book
  7. The Seeing

    Year: 2012
    Category: Children's Book
    Rank: Shortlist
  8. What's Up With Jody Barton?

    by Hayley Long

    Year: 2012
    Category: Children's Book
    Rank: Shortlist
  9. A Boy and A Bear in a Boat

    by Dave Shelton

    Year: 2012
    Category: Children's Book
    Rank: Shortlist
  10. Small Change for Stuart

    by Lissa Evans

    Year: 2012
    Category: Children's Fiction
    Finalist
  11. The Innocents

    by Francesca Segal

    Year: 2012
    Category: First Novel
  12. The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder

    by J. W. Ironmonger

    Year: 2012
    Category: First Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  13. Snake Ropes

    by Jess Richards

    Year: 2012
    Category: First Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  14. The Bellwether Revivals

    by Benjamin Wood

    Year: 2012
    Category: First Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  15. The Innocents

    by Francesca Segal

    Year: 2012
    Category: First Novel Award
  16. Life! Death! Prizes!

    by Stephen May

    Year: 2012
    Category: Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  17. The Heart Broke In

    Year: 2012
    Category: Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  18. Days of the Bagnold Summer

    by Joff Winterhart

    Year: 2012
    Category: Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  19. The Overhaul

    by Kathleen Jamie

    Year: 2012
    Category: Poetry
  20. Bee Journal

    by Sean Borodale

    Year: 2012
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Shortlist
  21. The World's Two Smallest Humans

    by Julia Copus

    Year: 2012
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Shortlist
  22. People who like meatballs

    by Selima Hill

    Year: 2012
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Shortlist
  23. Now All Roads Lead to France

    by Matthew Hollis

    Year: 2011
    Category: Biography
  24. Thin Paths

    Journeys In and Around an Italian Mountain Village

    by Julia Blackburn

    Year: 2011
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Shortlist
  25. Henry's Demons

    Living with Schizophrenia: A Father and Son's Story

    by Patrick Cockburn, Henry Cockburn

    Year: 2011
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Shortlist
  26. Charles Dickens

    A Life

    by Claire Tomalin

    Year: 2011
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Shortlist
  27. Dust Lands: Book 1

    Blood Red Road

    by Moira Young

    Year: 2011
    Category: Children's Book
  28. Flip

    by Martyn Bedford

    Year: 2011
    Category: Children's Book
    Rank: Shortlist
  29. The Unforgotten Coat

    by Frank Cottrell Boyce

    Year: 2011
    Category: Children's Book
    Rank: Shortlist
  30. Small Change for Stuart

    by Lissa Evans

    Year: 2011
    Category: Children's Book
    Rank: Shortlist
  31. Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away

    by Christie Watson

    Year: 2011
    Category: First Novel
  32. City of Bohane

    by Kevin Barry

    Year: 2011
    Category: First Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  33. Pao

    by Kerry Young

    Year: 2011
    Category: First Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  34. Pure

    by Andrew Miller

    Year: 2011
    Category: Novel
  35. The Sense of an Ending

    by Julian Barnes

    Year: 2011
    Category: Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  36. A Summer of Drowning

    by John Burnside

    Year: 2011
    Category: Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  37. My Dear I Wanted to Tell You

    by Louisa Young

    Year: 2011
    Category: Novel
    Rank: shortlist
  38. The Bees

    by Carol Ann Duffy

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
  39. Night

    by David Harsent

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Shortlist
  40. Fiere

    by Jackie Kay

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Shortlist
  41. November

    by Sean O'Brien

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Shortlist
  42. The Hare With Amber Eyes

    A Hidden Inheritance

    by Edmund De Waal

    Year: 2010
    Category: Biography
  43. How to Live

    A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

    by Sarah Bakewell

    Year: 2010
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Shortlist
  44. My Father's Fortune

    A Life

    by Michael Frayn

    Year: 2010
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Shortlist
  45. Out of Shadows

    by Jason Wallace

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Book
  46. Out of Shadows

    by Jason Wallace

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Book
  47. Flyaway

    by Lucy Christopher

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Book
    Rank: Shortlist
  48. Annexed

    by Sharon Dogar

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Book
    Rank: Shortlist
  49. The Bartimaeus Series: Book 4

    The Ring of Solomon

    by Jonathan Stroud

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Book
    Rank: Shortlist

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