Book Awards By Year

2005 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe AccidentalAli SmithFrom the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted, Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious. . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh' Sunday Telegraph 'A beg...Amazon2005 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistA Long Way DownNick HornbyAmazonShalimar the ClownSalman RushdieAmazonThe Ballad of Lee CottonChristopher WilsonAmazon

2004 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerSmall IslandAndrea LevyWinner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction A Picador Original Trade Paperback Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war exp...Amazon2004 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistCase Histories Louis de Bernières: Birds Without WingsKate AtkinsonAmazonSmall IslandAndrea LevyAmazonThe Line of BeautyAlan HollinghurstAmazon

2003 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeMark HaddonLots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them'This is Christopher's murder mystery story. There are also no lies in this story because Christopher can't tell lies. Christopher does not like strangers or the colours yello...Amazon2003 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistFrankie & StankieBarbara TrapidoAmazonHeligolandShena MackayAmazonThe Lucky OnesRachel CuskAmazon

2002 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerSpiesMichael FraynIn the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys start to suspect that all is not what it seems when one day Keith announces a dis...Amazon2002 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistRumours of a HurricaneTim LottAmazonThe Story of Lucy GaultWilliam TrevorAmazonWhite LightningJustin CartwrightAmazon

2001 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerTwelve Bar BluesPatrick NeateLick Holden, a talented but tormented young coronet player, sets out to conquer the steaming jazz scene of early twentieth-century New Orleans, in a lively novel that won the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award....Amazon2001 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistAtonementIan McEwanAmazonOxygenAndrew MillerAmazonThe SiegeHelen DunmoreAmazon

2000 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerEnglish PassengersMatthew KnealeA 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...Amazon2000 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistFred & EdieJill DawsonAmazonWhat Are You Like?Anne EnrightAmazonWhen We Were Orphans Will Self: How the Dead LiveKazuo IshiguroAmazon

1999 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerMusic and SilenceRose TremainBrought to the Danish court in 1629 to serve in the king's orchestra, English lutenist Peter Claire soon finds himself caught up in royal intrigue when he falls for a young woman who is the companion of the queen. Winner of the Whitbread Prize. Reader's Gu...Amazon1999 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistBeing DeadJim CraceAmazonChocolatJoanne HarrisAmazonHeadlongMichael FraynAmazon

1998 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerLeading the CheersJustin Cartwright...Amazon1998 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistThe CatastrophistRonan BennettAmazonThe Travelling HornplayerBarbara TrapidoAmazon

1997 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerQuarantineJim CraceWith an introduction by Stuart Evers So this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and camels any more, of being Miri without shame or hesitation, of letting drop her headscarf f...Amazon1997 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistAsylumPatrick McGrathAmazonBleeding LondonGeoff NicholsonAmazonEnduring LoveIan McEwanAmazonGrace NotesBernard MacLavertyAmazonThe UntouchableJohn BanvilleAmazon

1996 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerEvery Man for HimselfBeryl BainbridgeIf ever a subject and a writer were perfectly matched it is here. The fated voyage of the Titanic, with its heroics and horror, has been dramatized many times before, but never by an artist with the skills and sensibility of Beryl Bainbridge. Bainbridge vi...Amazon1996 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistAsylumPatrick McGrathAmazonCocaine NightsJ. G. BallardAmazonLast OrdersGraham SwiftAmazonMr Clive & Mr PageNeil BartlettAmazonWorst FearsFay WeldonAmazon