Costa Book Award for Novel explained

The Costa Book Award for Novel, formerly known as the Whitbread Award (1971–2005), was an annual literary award for novels, as part of the Costa Book Awards.

The awards were dissolved in 2022.^[1]

Recipients

Costa Books of the Year are distinguished with a blue ribbon . Award winners are listed in bold.

Costa Book Award for Novel winners and finalists^[2] !Year!Author!Title!Result!Ref.

1971		The Destiny Waltz	Winner
1972		The Bird of Night	Winner
1973		The Chip-Chip Gatherers	Winner
1974		The Sacred and Profane Love Machine	Winner
1975		Docherty	Winner
1976		The Children of Dynmouth	Winner
1977		Injury Time	Winner
1978		Picture Palace	Winner
1979		The Old Jest	Winner
1980		How Far Can You Go?	Winner
1981		Silver's City	Winner
1982		Young Shoulders	Winner
1983		Fools of Fortune	Winner
1984		Kruger's Alp	Winner
1985		Hawksmoor	Winner
1986		An Artist of the Floating World	Winner
1987		The Child in Time	Winner
1988		The Satanic Verses	Winner
1989		The Chymical Wedding	Winner
1990		Hopeful Monsters	Winner
1991		The Queen of the Tambourine	Winner
1992		Poor Things	Winner
1993		Theory of War	Winner
1994		Felicia's Journey	Winner
1995		The Moor's Last Sigh	Winner
		The Information	Shortlist
		The Ghost Road
		In Every Face I Meet
		The Unconsoled
1996		Every Man for Himself	Winner
		Mr Clive & Mr Page	Shortlist
		Cocaine Nights
		Asylum
		Last Orders
		Worst Fears
1997		Quarantine	Winner
		The Untouchable	Shortlist
		Grace Notes
		Enduring Love
		Bleeding London
1998		Leading the Cheers	Winner
		the catastrophist	Shortlist
		The Travelling Hornplayer
1999		Music and Silence	Winner
		Being Dead	Shortlist
		Headlong
		Chocolat
2000		English Passengers	Winner
		Fred & Edie	Shortlist
		What Are You Like?
		When We Were Orphans
		How the Dead Live
2001		Twelve Bar Blues	Winner
		The Siege	Shortlist
		Atonement
		Oxygen
2002		Spies	Winner
		White Lightning	Shortlist
		Rumours of a Hurricane
		The Story of Lucy Gault
2003		The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Winner
		The Lucky Ones	Shortlist
		Heligoland
		Frankie & Stankie
2004		Small Island	Winner
		Case Histories	Shortlist
		Birds Without Wings
		The Line of Beauty
		Small Island
2005			Winner
			Shortlist
		Shalimar the Clown
2006		Restless	Winner
		Saving Caravaggio	Shortlist	[3]
		A Spot of Bother
		Black Swan Green
2007		Day	Winner	[4]
		Skin Lane	Shortlist
		Death of a Murderer
		The Road Home
2008		The Secret Scripture	Winner	[5]
		The Other Hand	Shortlist
		A Partisan's Daughter
		Trauma
2009		Brooklyn	Winner	[6]
		Family Album	Shortlist
		Wolf Hall
		The Elephant Keeper
2010		The Hand That First Held Mine	Winner	[7]
		Whatever You Love	Shortlist	[8]
		The Blasphemer
		Skippy Dies
2011		Pure	Winner	[9]
		The Sense of an Ending	Shortlist	[10]
		A Summer of Drowning
		My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
2012		Bring Up the Bodies	Winner	[11]
		Life! Death	Prizes!	Shortlist
		The Heart Broke In
		Days of the Bagnold Summer
2013		Life after Life	Winner	[12] [13]
		Unexpected Lessons in Love	Shortlist	[14]
		Instructions for a Heatwave
		All the Birds, Singing
2014		How to Be Both	Winner	[15] [16]
			Shortlist	[17]
		House of Ashes
		Nora Webster
2015		A God in Ruins	Winner	[18]
			Shortlist	[19]
		At Hawthorn Time
2016		Days Without End	Winner	[20]
			Shortlist	[21]
		The Gustav Sonata
2017		Reservoir 13	Winner	[22]
			Shortlist	[23]
2018		Normal People	Winner	[24]
			Shortlist	[25]
2019		Middle England	Winner	[26]
		Confession with Blue Horses	Shortlist	[27]
		Starling Days
		Shadowplay
2020			Winner	[28]
		Piranesi	Shortlist	[29]
		Peace Talks
2021		Unsettled Ground	Winner	[30]
			Shortlist	[31]

See also

• Costa Book Award for Biography
• Costa Book Award for Children's Books
• Costa Book Award for First Novel
• Costa Book Award for Poetry
• Costa Book Award for Short Story
• Costa Book Awards

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. News: Simpson . Craig . 2022-06-10 . Costa Book Awards to end after 50 years . en-GB . The Telegraph . 2023-02-21 . 0307-1235 . 2023-02-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230221221835/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/10/costa-book-awards-end-50-years/ . live .
2. Web site: Past Winners. https://web.archive.org/web/20091229131124/http://www.costabookawards.com/downloads/PastWinners.pdf. 2009-12-29. 2022-02-07. Costa Book Awards.
3. News: Pauli . Michelle . 2006-11-28 . Costa kicks off prize sponsorship with populist shortlist . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201017025557/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/28/costabookaward2006.costabookaward . 2020-10-17 . 0261-3077.
4. News: Brown . Mark . 2008-01-02 . Former postwoman takes Costa first novel award . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220527152421/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jan/02/costabookawards2007.costabookaward2 . 2022-05-27 . 0261-3077.
5. News: Brown . Mark . 2009-01-05 . Nonagenarian Diana Athill leads Costa book award winners . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220909084816/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/05/costabookaward-awardsandprizes . 2022-09-09 . 0261-3077.
6. News: Brown . Mark . 2010-01-26 . Christopher Reid wins Costa book prize . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220529140142/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/26/christopher-reid-costa-book-prize . 2022-05-29 . 0261-3077.
7. News: 2011-01-05 . In pictures: Costa book awards 2010 . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221123045252/https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2011/jan/05/costa-book-awards-2010 . 2022-11-23 . 0261-3077.
8. News: Brown . Mark . 2010-11-16 . Costa prize shortlist falls short on biographies . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190514195306/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/16/costa-book-prize-shortlist-unfilled . 2019-05-14 . 0261-3077.
9. News: Brown . Mark . correspondent . arts . 2012-01-24 . Costa book award: Andrew Miller wins for sixth novel, Pure . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230604181556/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/24/costa-winner-andrew-miller-pure . 2023-06-04 . 0261-3077.
10. News: 2011-11-15 . Costa book awards 2011: the shortlists – in pictures . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220707043822/https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2011/nov/15/costa-book-awards-2011-shortlists-in-pictures . 2022-07-07 . 0261-3077.
11. News: Brown . Mark . 2013-01-29 . Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies wins Costa prize after unanimous vote . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221216090037/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/29/hilary-mantel-bring-bodies-costa-prize . 2022-12-16 . 0261-3077.
12. News: 2014-01-06 . Former winners recapture Costa prize . en-GB . . live . 2022-02-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220207143512/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-25627541 . 2022-02-07.
13. News: Brown . Mark . 2014-01-28 . Costa book award won by Nathan Filer for debut novel, The Shock of the Fall . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230405191547/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/28/costa-book-award-nathan-filer . 2023-04-05 . 0261-3077.
14. Web site: Mark Brown. 26 November 2013. Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist. The Guardian. November 27, 2013. 3 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190403092244/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/26/costa-book-award-shortlists-2013. live.
15. Web site: Vincent . Alice . 2015-01-05 . Wartime adaptation of Five Children and It wins in Costa Book Award categories . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190502192856/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookprizes/11312169/Costa-book-award-winners-2014-ali-smith.html . 2019-05-02 . 2015-01-12 . The Daily Telegraph.
16. News: Brown . Mark . 2015-01-27 . Helen Macdonald wins 2014 Costa book award for ‘haunting’ H is for Hawk . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150221171326/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/27/costa-book-award-helen-macdonald-h-is-for-hawk-win . 2015-02-21 . 0261-3077.
17. Web site: Oliver Arnoldi. 18 November 2014. 2014 Costa Book Awards shortlists announced. Daily Telegraph. January 12, 2015. 12 January 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150112172025/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookprizes/11238023/2014-Costa-Book-Awards-shortlists-announced.html. live.
18. Web site: Brown . Mark . 26 January 2016 . Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree wins Costa book of the year 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170629122427/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/26/frances-hardinges-the-lie-tree-wins-costa-book-of-the-year-2015 . 29 June 2017 . 27 January 2016 . The Guardian.
19. News: Flood . Alison . 2015-11-17 . Costa category awards 2015: tiny presses square up to big hitters . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221227110913/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/17/costa-category-awards-2015-tiny-presses-square-up-to-big-hitters . 2022-12-27 . 0261-3077.
20. News: Cain . Sian . 2017-01-31 . Days Without End wins Sebastian Barry second Costa book of the year award . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220704103132/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/31/days-without-end-wins-sebastian-barry-second-costa-book-of-the-year . 2022-07-04 . 0261-3077.
21. Web site: Sian Cain. 22 November 2016. Costa book award 2016 shortlists dominated by female writers. The Guardian. October 3, 2022. 3 October 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221003144004/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/22/costa-book-award-2016-shortlists-dominated-by-female-writers-rose-tremain-maggie-o-farrell-sarah-perry. live.
22. News: Cain . Sian . 2018-01-02 . Helen Dunmore wins posthumous Costa award for collection Inside the Wave . en-GB . . live . 2023-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180102221119/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/02/helen-dunmore-wins-posthumous-costa-award-for-collection-inside-the-wave . 2018-01-02 . 0261-3077.
23. Web site: 27 November 2017. Costa Book Awards 2017 Shortlists Announced. Foyles. October 3, 2022. 3 October 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221003144008/https://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Biblio/Detail.aspx?newsId=3500. dead .
24. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - Front Row - The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es named Costa Book of the Year 2018. 2022-02-06. BBC. en-GB. 2022-01-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20220104112759/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1gF4PfT74lbBGG8tdXvnCc5/the-cut-out-girl-by-bart-van-es-named-costa-book-of-the-year-2018. live.
25. Web site: Costa Book Awards 2018 Shortlists Announced. BBC Radio 4. October 3, 2022. October 3, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221003144003/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2NmlTPlypmknGG1CxX2xVfV/costa-book-awards-2018-shortlists-announced. live.
26. News: Doyle. Martin. 6 January 2020. Costa Book Awards 2019 winners revealed. en. The Irish Times. 28 January 2020. 13 June 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220613083402/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/costa-book-awards-2019-winners-revealed-1.4131655. live.
27. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - Front Row - Costa Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced . 2022-08-04 . BBC . en-GB . 2022-08-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220804173217/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3q5Ddkv4MQLddxHw7mp0qbb/costa-book-awards-2019-shortlists-announced . live .
28. Web site: January 2021. Costa Book of the Year: 'Utterly original' Mermaid of Black Conch wins. 2021-02-03. BBC. 2022-06-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20220607130700/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55816858. live.
29. Web site: Anderson . Porter . 2020-11-25 . The Costa Book Awards Announce their 2020 Shortlists . 2022-08-04 . Publishing Perspectives . en-US . 2022-08-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220814183301/https://publishingperspectives.com/2020/11/the-costa-book-awards-announce-their-2020-shortlists-covid19/ . live .
30. Web site: Costa Book Awards 2021 category winners announced. 2022-01-05. Costa. 2022-01-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20220105031313/https://costanewsroom.vuelio.co.uk/press/press-releases/a657bbca-30fd-4330-81e0-3976bcc4a5ba/costa-book-awards-2021-category-winners-announced. live.
31. Web site: 2021-11-23 . Costa prize 2021 shortlists highlight climate anxiety . 2022-08-04 . the Guardian . en . 2022-12-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221207023228/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/23/costa-prize-2021-shortlists-highlight-climate-anxiety . live .