Costa Book Award – Novel

1974 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Sacred & Profane Love MachineIris MurdochMontague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure. He detests his fictional detective. His interest in his neighbour's difficult...Amazon

1973 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Chip Chip GatherersShiva NaipaulThe crowded, ramshackle community of the Settlement in Trinidad is at the mercy of a tyrant. Egbert Ramsaran, the proud owner of the Ramsaran Transport Company, who has become the richest man in town through sheer strength of will, is a capricious, eccentr...Amazon

1972 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Bird of NightSusan Hill...Amazon

1971 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Destiny WaltzGerda Charles...Amazon

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

2017 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerReservoir 13Jon McGregorA new novel from celebrated British novelist Jon McGregor--twice longlisted for the Man Booker Prize--Reservoir 13 tells the story of a whole English village haunted by one family's loss....Amazon2017 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistHome FireKamila ShamsieAmazonTin ManSarah WinmanAmazonUnder a Pole StarStef PenneyAmazon

2016 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerDays Without EndSebastian BarryCOSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE "A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making."—Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winning author...Amazon2016 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistThe Essex SerpentSarah PerryAmazonThe Gustav SonataRose TremainAmazonThis Must Be the PlaceMaggie O’FarrellAmazon

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