2008 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she’s spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often wi…

A Partisan’s Daughter

Louis de Bernieres

The Other Hand

Chris Cleave

Trauma

Patrick McGrath