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
    ?
    The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft.
    by Claire Tomalin
  2. 1975
    Improbable Puritan: Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke, 1605-75
    by Ruth Spalding
  3. 1980
    How Far Can You Go?
    by David Lodge
  4. 1981
    A Good Man in Africa: A Novel
    by William Boyd
  5. 1982
    On the Black Hill
    by Bruce Chatwin
  6. 1983
    ?
    Flying to nowhere : a tale
    by John Fuller
  7. 1984
    A Parish of Rich Women
    by James Buchan
  8. 1985
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    by Jeanette Winterson
  9. 1986
    Continent
    by Jim Crace
  10. 1987
    ?
    Other Garden
    by Francis Wyndham
  11. 1988
    ?
    Comforts of Madness (Fiction - general)
    by Paul Sayers
  12. 1989
    Gerontius
    by James Hamilton-Paterson
  13. 1990
    The Buddha of Suburbia
    by Hanif Kureishi
  14. 1991
    ?
    Alma Cogan
    by Gordon Burn
  15. 1992
    Swing Hammer Swing!
    by Jeff Torrington
  16. 1993
    Saving Agnes: A Novel
    by Rachel Cusk
  17. 1994
    ?
    The Longest Memory
    by Fred D'Aguiar
  18. 1995
    Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
    by Kate Atkinson
  19. 1996
    The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
    by John Lanchester
  20. 1997
    The Ventriloquist's Tale
    by Pauline Melville
  21. 1998
    The Last King of Scotland
    by Giles Foden
  22. 1999
    White city blue
    by Tim Lott
  23. 2000
    White Teeth: A Novel
    by Zadie Smith
  24. 2001
    Something Like a House
    by Sid Smith
  25. 2002
    The Song of Names
    by Norman Lebrecht
  26. 2003
    Vernon God Little
    by DBC Pierre
  27. 2004
    Eve Green
    by Susan Fletcher
  28. 2005
    The Harmony Silk Factory
    by Tash Aw
  29. 2006
    The Tenderness of Wolves
    by Stef Penney
  30. 2007
    What Was Lost: A Novel
    by Catherine O'Flynn
  31. 2008
    The Outcast: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Sadie Jones
  32. 2009
    Beauty
    by Raphael Selbourne
  33. 2010
    Witness the Night
    by Kishwar Desai
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