Costa (Whitbread) Book Awards: Best First Novel

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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; 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. 1974
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    The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft.
    by Claire Tomalin

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  2. 1975
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  3. 1980
    How Far Can You Go?
    by David Lodge

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  4. 1981
    A Good Man in Africa: A Novel
    by William Boyd

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  5. 1982
    On the Black Hill
    by Bruce Chatwin

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  6. 1983
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    Flying to nowhere : a tale
    by John Fuller

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  7. 1984
    A Parish of Rich Women
    by James Buchan

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  8. 1985
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette)
    by Jeanette Winterson

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  9. 1986
    Continent
    by Jim Crace

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  10. 1987
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    Other Garden
    by Francis Wyndham

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  11. 1988
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    Comforts of Madness (Fiction - General)
    by Paul Sayers

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  12. 1989
    Gerontius
    by James Hamilton-Paterson

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  13. 1990
    The Buddha of Suburbia
    by Hanif Kureishi

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  14. 1991
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    Alma Cogan
    by Gordon Burn

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  15. 1992
    Swing Hammer Swing!
    by Jeff Torrington

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  16. 1993
    Saving Agnes: A Novel
    by Rachel Cusk

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  17. 1994
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    The Longest Memory
    by Fred D'Aguiar

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  18. 1995
    Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
    by Kate Atkinson

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  19. 1996
    The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
    by John Lanchester

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  20. 1997
    The Ventriloquist's Tale
    by Pauline Melville

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  21. 1998
    The Last King of Scotland
    by Giles Foden

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  22. 1999
    White city blue
    by Tim Lott

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  23. 2000
    White Teeth: A Novel
    by Zadie Smith

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  24. 2001
    Something Like a House
    by Sid Smith

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  25. 2002
    The Song of Names
    by Norman Lebrecht

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  26. 2003
    Vernon God Little
    by DBC Pierre

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  27. 2004
    Eve Green
    by Susan Fletcher

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  28. 2005
    The Harmony Silk Factory
    by Tash Aw

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  29. 2006
    The Tenderness of Wolves
    by Stef Penney

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  30. 2007
    What Was Lost: A Novel
    by Catherine O'Flynn

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  31. 2008
    The Outcast: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Sadie Jones

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