Costa (Whitbread) Book Awards: Book of the Year

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The Whitbread is one of the longest-running and most prestigious book awards in the UK. Since its launch in 1971, its structure has evolved – the first year of the "Book of the Year Award" was 1980 but it did not become an annual award until 1985; but it has never diverted from its original ethos of identifying and celebrating some of the most enjoyable books published in the UK each year across a number of different genres.

Note: The Award is now called the Costa Book Award.

  1. 1980
    How Far Can You Go?
    by David Lodge

  2. 1985
    ?
    Elegies
    by Douglas Dunn

  3. 1986
    An Artist of the Floating World
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

  4. 1987
    Under the Eye of the Clock
    by Christopher Nolan

  5. 1988
    ?
    Comforts of Madness (Fiction - general)
    by Paul Sayers

  6. 1989
    Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804
    by Richard Holmes

  7. 1990
    Hopeful Monsters
    by Nicholas Mosley

  8. 1991
    ?
    Life Of Picasso V1
    by John Richardson

  9. 1992
    ?
    Swing Hammer Swing
    by Jeff Torrington

  10. 1993
    Theory of War
    by Joan Brady

  11. 1994
    Felicia's Journey: (movie tie-in edition)
    by William Trevor

  12. 1995
    Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
    by Kate Atkinson

  13. 1996
    The Spirit Level: Poems
    by Seamus Heaney

  14. 1997
    Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
    by Ted Hughes

  15. 1998
    Birthday Letters: Poems
    by Ted Hughes

  16. 2000
    English Passengers: A Novel
    by Matthew Kneale

  17. 2002
    Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self
    by CLAIRE TOMALIN

  18. 2003
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

  19. 2004
    Small Island: A Novel
    by Andrea Levy

  20. 2006
    The Tenderness of Wolves
    by Stef Penney

  21. 2007
    ?
    Day: A novel
    by A.L. Kennedy

  22. 2008
    ?
    The Secret Scripture
    by Sebastian Barry

  23. 2009
    Scattering
    by Christopher Reid

  24. 2010
    Of Mutability. Jo Shapcott
    by Jo Shapcott

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Created by Robot Co-op on Nov 30, 2005.
 

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