Costa (Whitbread) Book Awards: Book of the Year

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.

(found at: http://www.costabookawards.com/)

Send to Printer Costa (Whitbread) Book Awards: Book of the Year 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. (found at: http://www.costabookawards.com/)
	1.		How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge
	2.	?	Elegies by Douglas Dunn
	3.		An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
	4.		Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan
	5.	?	Comforts of Madness (Fiction - General) by Paul Sayers
	6.		Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Richard Holmes
	7.		Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley
	8.	?	Life Of Picasso V1 by John Richardson
	9.	?	Swing Hammer Swing by Jeff Torrington
	10.		Theory of War by Joan Brady
	11.		Felicia's Journey: (movie tie-in edition) by William Trevor
	12.		Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel by Kate Atkinson
	13.		The Spirit Level: Poems by Seamus Heaney
	14.		Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
	15.		Birthday Letters: Poems by Ted Hughes
	16.		Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
	17.		English Passengers: A Novel by Matthew Kneale
	18.		The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3)
	19.		Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self by CLAIRE TOMALIN
	20.		The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
	21.		Small Island: A Novel by Andrea Levy
	22.		Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling
	23.		The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
	24.	?	Day: A novel by A.L. Kennedy
	25.	?	The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
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