Lists of Bests: Costa (Whitbread) Book Awards: Book of the Year http://www.listsofbests.com/list/75 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._ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:15:52 GMT en-us 0 50 27 0 0 How Far Can You Go? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2541 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2541"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/210MB4GPQZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Lodge</div> Elegies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66310 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Dunn</div> An Artist of the Floating World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18650 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18650"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515V6PC0gRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> Under the Eye of the Clock http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66311 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66311"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1559705124.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Nolan</div> Comforts of Madness (Fiction - general) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2283 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Sayers</div> Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66312 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66312"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mB%2BPVOHxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Holmes</div> Hopeful Monsters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30333 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30333"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WqNubAQDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas Mosley</div> Life Of Picasso V1 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66313 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Richardson</div> Swing Hammer Swing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66314 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeff Torrington</div> Theory of War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13506 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13506"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449909131.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056444415_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Brady</div> Felicia's Journey: (movie tie-in edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3038 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3038"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140290214.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Trevor</div> Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5819 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5819"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cxDRIt03L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Atkinson</div> The Spirit Level: Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66315 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66315"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Hafin6qrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Seamus Heaney</div> Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66316 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66316"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NEcENUPBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ted Hughes</div> Birthday Letters: Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8612 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8612"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G8Vd8lYEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ted Hughes</div> Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gQ5CjZXtL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> English Passengers: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10380 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10380"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X52TKN4NL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Kneale</div> The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24911 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24911"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0807282375.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8741 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8741"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375411437.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by CLAIRE TOMALIN</div> The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41AVVhtHugL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Haddon</div> Small Island: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6446 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6446"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51z3E7Py9ML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrea Levy</div> Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107948 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107948"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51835ED7PHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hilary Spurling</div> The Tenderness of Wolves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2588978 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2588978"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1847240674.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44820086_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stef Penney</div> Day: A novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2868403 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.L. Kennedy</div> The Secret Scripture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2953479 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sebastian Barry</div> Scattering http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7714057 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7714057"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gRNwHK7WL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Reid</div> Of Mutability. Jo Shapcott http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7582384 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7582384"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31meIGHckpL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jo Shapcott</div>