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22Mar By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
1976 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1976 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1976 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Children of DynmouthWilliam TrevorPenguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, whil...Amazon
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1977 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1977 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1977 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerInjury TimeBeryl BainbridgeWinner of the Whitbread Literary Award: A darkly humorous tale about a 1970s dinner party gone terribly wrong by one of Britain’s most renowned authors. Edward is normally a cautious man, especially when it comes to his mistress, Binny. But he feels bad th...Amazon
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1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1979 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1979 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Old JestJennifer JohnstonWinner of the Whitbread Literary Award for Best Novel: In the wake of the Great War, a young woman’s life is turned upside down when she befriends a soldier of the grisly struggle on Ireland’s horizon Nancy lives with her aunt and ailing grandfather in a s...Amazon
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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1981 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1981 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerSilver's CityMaurice LeitchAgainst the background of war-torn Belfast, two men engage in a bitter private duel. Ned Galloway, a street-wise gunman profiting from the people's anxiety, is hired to spring Silver Steele, a jailed folk-hero, from a guarded hospital room. This book won t...Amazon
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1982 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1982 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1982 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerYoung ShouldersJohn WainThe lost novel, winner of the 1982 Whitbread Prize. New life flowering from death, new perspectives arising from suffering, a new peace that comes from being tested to the uttermost. To 17 year old Paul Waterford life is beginning to seem a sour business, ...Amazon
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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1983 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1983 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerFools of FortuneWilliam TrevorFools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writers Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year Murder and revenge during the Irish Civil War The Quintons have lived in the old house in Cork for ...Amazon
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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1984 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1984 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerKruger's AlpChristopher HopeTheodore Blanchaille is searching for the missing millions of the Boer leader Paul Kruger, and his lost city of gold. As a child he had heard tales of Kruger from a wayward priest; what follows is an astonishing journey that takes Blanchaille through a lan...Amazon
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1985 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1985 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1985 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerHawksmoorPeter AckroydThere is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe.' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conc...Amazon
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