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Costa Book Award

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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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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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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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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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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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1975 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1975 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1975 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerDochertyWilliam McIlvanneyWinner of the Whitbread prize, by one of Scotland's greatest living novelists Tam Docherty's youngest son, Conn, is born at the end of 1903 in a small working-class town in the west of Scotland. Tam will stop at nothing to make sure that life and the pits ...Amazon
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1974 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1974 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

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
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1973 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1973 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

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
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