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Costa Book of the Year

Formerly the Whitbread Book Award, the Costa Book of the Year Award celebrates the best of contemporary writing from the UK and Ireland. The Costa Book Awards are given annually in five categories — Poetry, Biography, Children's Literature, Novel, and First Novel — to authors who have lived in Great Britain or Ireland for at least three years. From these five winners, one book is chosen as the Costa Book of the Year.

The Whitbread Literary Awards were launched in 1971. The name change occurred in 2006, when Whitbread withdrew its sponsorship and the Costa Coffee Company took over.

Awards for 2010

1. Costa Book of the Year

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      Of Mutability

      Jo ShapcottJo Shapcott 9780571254705
   Synopsis: Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring... (read more)

Past Winners

1. 2009

   
   A Scattering Christopher Reid New Mass Market $14.00
   

2. 2008

   
   The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry

   

   Used Trade Paper $8.00
   

3. 2007

   
   Day (Vintage Contemporaries) A L Kennedy Used Trade Paper $5.50
   

4. 2006

   
   The Tenderness of Wolves Stef Penney

   

   Used Hardcover $7.95
   

5. 2003

   
   The Curious Incident of the Dog in... Mark Haddon

   

   Used Hardcover $8.50
   

6. 2002

   
   Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Claire Tomalin Used Hardcover $14.50
   

7. 2001

   
   Amber Spyglass :His Dark Materials 3 Philip Pullman Used Mass Market $3.50
   

8. 2000

   
   English Passengers Matthew Kneale

   

   Used Trade Paper $5.50
   

9. 1999

   
   Beowulf: A New Verse Translation Seamus Heaney

   

   Used Trade Paper $6.50
   

10. 1998

    
    Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia... Erica Wagner Used Hardcover $4.50
    

11. 1997

    
    Tales from Ovid Ovid Sale Trade Paper $7.98
    

12. 1996

    
    The Spirit Level: Poems Seamus Heaney Sale Trade Paper $6.98
    

13. 1995

    
    Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson

    

    Used Trade Paper $5.95
    

14. 1994

    
    Felicia's Journey William Trevor

    

    Used Trade Paper $3.50
    

15. 1993

    
    Theory of War Joan Brady Used Trade Paper $5.95
    

16. 1992

    
    Poor Things Alasdair Gray Used Hardcover $2.50
    

17. 1990

    
    Hopeful Monsters Nicholas Mosley New Trade Paper $14.95
    

18. 1989

    
    Coleridge Volume 1 Early Visions... Richard Holmes Used Trade Paper $12.00
    

19. 1987

    
    Under the Eye of the Clock: The Life... Christopher Nolan Used Trade Paper $5.95
    

20. 1986

    
    An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro

    

    Used Trade Paper $5.95
    

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