2014 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

How To Be Both

Ali Smith

This is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths, and fictions. There’s a renaissance artist of the …

House of Ashes

Monique Roffey

Nora Webster

Colm Toibin

The Lives of Others

Neel Mukherjee