All Book Awards

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

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