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2015 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 2015.

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The shortlist was announced c. 17 November 2015. The category winners were announced c. 4 January 2016, and the overall winner was announced on 26 January 2016.

Book of the Year

Winner: Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

Children's Book

Winner: Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

Shortlist:

  • Hayley Long, Sophie Someone
  • Sally Nicholls, An Island of Our Own
  • Andrew Norriss, Jessica's Ghost

    • First Novel

    Winner: Andrew Michael Hurley, The Loney

    Shortlist:

  • Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither
  • Kate Hamer, The Girl in the Red Coat
  • Tasha Kavanagh, Things We Have in Common

    • Novel

    Winner: Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

    Shortlist:

  • Anne Enright, The Green Road
  • Patrick Gale, A Place Called Winter
  • Melissa Harrison, At Hawthorn Time

    • Biography

    Winner: Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Lost Hero of Science

    Shortlist:

  • Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
  • Thomas Harding, The House by the Lake
  • Ruth Scurr, John Aubrey: My Own Life

    • Poetry

    Winner: Don Paterson, 40 Sonnets

    Shortlist:

  • Andrew McMillan, Physical
  • Kate Miller, The Observances
  • Neil Rollinson, Talking Dead

    • Short Story

  • Winner: TBD
  • Second: TBD
  • Third: TBD

    • References

    2015 Costa Book Awards Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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