Book Awards By Year

2015 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerA God in RuinsKate AtkinsonThe stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl). Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances, following ...Amazon2015 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistA Place Called WinterPatrick GaleAmazonAt Hawthorn TimeMelissa HarrisonAmazonThe Green RoadAnne EnrightAmazon

2014 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerHow To Be BothAli SmithThis 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 ...Amazon2014 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistHouse of AshesMonique RoffeyAmazonNora WebsterColm ToibinAmazonThe Lives of OthersNeel MukherjeeAmazon

2013 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerLife After LifeKate AtkinsonWhat if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born,...Amazon2013 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistAll the Birds, SingingEvie WyldAmazonInstructions for a HeatwaveMaggie O'FarrellAmazonUnexpected Lessons in LoveBernardine BishopAmazon

2012 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerBring Up the BodiesHilary MantelBy 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. But H...Amazon2012 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistDays of the Bagnold SummerJoff WinterhartAmazonLife! Death! Prizes!Stephen MayAmazonThe Heart Broke InJames MeekAmazon

2011 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerPureAndrew Miller...Amazon2011 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistA Summer of DrowningJohn BurnsideAmazonMy Dear I Wanted to Tell YouLouisa YoungAmazonThe Sense of an EndingJulian BarnesAmazon

2009 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerBrooklynColm ToibinColm Tóibín’s New York Times bestselling novel—soon to be a film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent from the award-winning team that produced An Education—is “a moving, deeply satisfying read” (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in B...Amazon2009 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistFamily AlbumPenelope LivelyAmazonThe Elephant KeeperChristopher NicholsonAmazonWolf HallHilary MantelAmazon

2008 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Secret ScriptureSebastian BarryNearing 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...Amazon2008 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistA Partisan's DaughterLouis de BernieresAmazonThe Other HandChris CleaveAmazonTraumaPatrick McGrathAmazon

2007 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerDayA. L. KennedyAlfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the...Amazon2007 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistDeath of a MurdererRupert ThomsonAmazonSkin LaneNeil BartlettAmazonThe Road HomeRose TremainAmazon

2006 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerRestlessWilliam BoydShe continued her cross-examination and watched Romer's pleasure grow; he was enjoying this, she saw, and his enjoyment began to anger her. This wasn't some pastime, some idle flirtation – her brother was dead. Eva Delectorskaya, a beautiful Russian émigré...Amazon2006 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistA Spot of BotherMark HaddonAmazonBlack Swan GreenDavid MitchellAmazonSaving CaravaggioNeil GriffithsAmazon