Book Awards By Year

1995 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Moor's Last SighSalman RushdieTime Magazine's Best Book of the Year Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art,...Amazon1995 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistIn Every Face I MeetJustin CartwrightAmazonThe Ghost RoadPat BarkerAmazonThe InformationMartin AmisAmazonThe UnconsoledKazuo IshiguroAmazon

1994 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerFelicia's JourneyWilliam TrevorFull of hope, seventeen-year old Felicia crosses the Irish sea to the English Midlands in search of her lover Johnny to tell him she is pregnant. Unable to find him, alone and desperate, she is found instead by Mr. Hilditch, an obese catering manger, colle...Amazon

1993 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerTheory of WarJoan BradyA modern work of genius' Spectator Winner of the Costa/Whitbread Book of the Year Award 1993 Forced into slavery as a child, Jonathan Carrick escapes to a new life but within him lies the need for revenge against George Stokes, the son of his former maste...Amazon

1992 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerPoor ThingsAlasdair GrayWhat strange secret made rich, beautiful, tempestuous Bella Baxter irresistible to the poor Scottish medical student Archie McCandless? Was it her mysterious origin in the home of his monstrous friend Godwin Baxter, the genius whose voice could perforate e...Amazon

1991 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Queen of the TambourineJane GardamEliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believes she has God in her pocket. She is too enthusiastic; she talks too much. Her concern for the welfare of her wealthySouth London neighbours extends to ingenuous well-meaning notes of unso...Amazon

1990 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerHopeful MonstersNicholas MosleyThis Whitbread Book of The Year Award winner for 1990 is the final novel of the "Catastrophe Practice" series. Set in the 1920s and 30s it tells the story of two young radicals, Max and Eleanor, who meet, love, separate and come together again during the m...Amazon

1989 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Chymical WeddingLindsay ClarkeSoon after moving to the secluded Norfolk village of Munding, Alex Darken has a disturbing encounter with the ageing poet Edward Nesbit and his young lover Laura. They are obsessively researching the lives of Sir Henry Agnew and his daughter Louisa who liv...Amazon

1988 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Satanic VersesSalman RushdieThe explosion of a jetliner over India triggers an Apocalyptic battle that sweeps across the subcontinent. Reprint....Amazon

1987 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Child in TimeIan McEwanStephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realize...Amazon

1986 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerAn Artist of the Floating WorldKazuo IshiguroFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beau...Amazon