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2006 Costa Book Awards

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The Costa Book Awards (before 2006 known as the Whitbread Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 2006.

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The Costa Book of the Year shortlist was announced on 10 January 2007 and the final results at a ceremony held on 7 February 2007.

Book of the Year

  • Stef Penney, The Tenderness of Wolves

    • Children's Book

    Winner:

  • Linda Newbery, Set in Stone

    • Shortlist:

  • David Almond, Clay
  • Julia Golding, The Diamond of Drury Lane
  • Meg Rosoff, Just in Case

    • First Novel

    Winner:

  • Stef Penney, The Tenderness of Wolves

    • Shortlist:

  • Michael Cox, The Meaning of Night
  • Marilyn Heward Mills, Cloth Girl
  • James Scudamore, The Amnesia Clinic

    • Novel

    Winner:

  • William Boyd, Restless

    • Shortlist:

  • Neil Griffiths, Saving Caravaggio
  • Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother
  • David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

    • Biography

    Winner:

  • Brian Thompson, Keeping Mum

    • Shortlist:

  • Maggie Fergusson, George Mackay Brown: The Life
  • John Stubbs, Donne: A Reformed Soul
  • Jo Tatchell, Nabeel's Song

    • Poetry

    Winner:

  • John Haynes, Letter to Patience

    • Shortlist:

  • Vicki Feaver, The Book of Blood
  • Seamus Heaney, District and Circle
  • Hugo Williams, Dear Room

    • References

    2006 Costa Book Awards Wikipedia
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