28 November 2006
Costa Book Awards shortlists
The shortlist for the Costa Children's Book Award (formerly Whitbread) have been announced:
Clay by David Almond
The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
Set in Stone by Linda Newbery
Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
Over the past 35 years the awards have recognised a wide range of books and authors across all genres, and the Costa Book Awards is the only book prize to use a category system that includes First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book. The other category shortlists are:
Costa First Novel Award
The Amnesia Clinic by James Scudamore
Cloth Girl by Marilyn Heward Mills
The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Costa Novel Award
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Saving Caravaggio by Neil Griffiths
Restless by William Boyd
Costa Poetry Award
Dear Room by Hugo Williams
Letter to Patience by John Haynes
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
The Book of Blood by Vicki Feaver
Costa Biography Award
Keeping Mum by Brian Thompson
Nabeel's Song by Jo Tatchell
Donne: A Reformed Soul by John Stubbs
George Mackay Brown: The Life by Maggie Fergusson
The winner of each of the five categories will be announced on 10 January.
One of those five will then be named as the overall Costa Book of the Year at a ceremony on 7 February.
See Costa Book Awards website for more details.
Clay by David Almond
The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
Set in Stone by Linda Newbery
Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
Over the past 35 years the awards have recognised a wide range of books and authors across all genres, and the Costa Book Awards is the only book prize to use a category system that includes First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book. The other category shortlists are:
Costa First Novel Award
The Amnesia Clinic by James Scudamore
Cloth Girl by Marilyn Heward Mills
The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Costa Novel Award
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Saving Caravaggio by Neil Griffiths
Restless by William Boyd
Costa Poetry Award
Dear Room by Hugo Williams
Letter to Patience by John Haynes
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
The Book of Blood by Vicki Feaver
Costa Biography Award
Keeping Mum by Brian Thompson
Nabeel's Song by Jo Tatchell
Donne: A Reformed Soul by John Stubbs
George Mackay Brown: The Life by Maggie Fergusson
The winner of each of the five categories will be announced on 10 January.
One of those five will then be named as the overall Costa Book of the Year at a ceremony on 7 February.
See Costa Book Awards website for more details.
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