2000 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

English Passengers

Matthew Kneale

A big, ambitious novel with a rich historical sweep and a host of narrative voices. Its subject is a vicar’s ludicrous expedition in 1857 to the Garden of Eden in Tasmania, [as] meanwhile, in Tasmania itself, the British settlers are alternately trying to…

Fred & Edie

Jill Dawson

What Are You Like?

Anne Enright

When We Were Orphans Will Self: How the Dead Live

Kazuo Ishiguro