Costa Book Awards

Formerly the Whitbread Book Awards.
The Costa Book Awards recognise the most enjoyable books of the last year by writers based in the UK and Ireland.



This is a selection of our Costa Book Awards section. To find a specific book or author, or just to browse, please use the search box.

Day - hardcover
By A. L. Kennedy - $29.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Costa Book Award for Best Novel.In 1939, Alfred Day had wanted war. And when he got it, he found purpose in its turmoil: he found his proper role as tail-gunner in a Lancaster bo...

 

The Tenderness of Wolves - trade paperback
By Stef Penney - $20.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2006 Costa First Novel Award.As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Canada’s Dove River in 1867, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year-old boy disappears. Tracks...

 

Tilt - trade paperback
By Jean Sprackland - $23.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Costa Book Award for Best Poetry.Tilt is a collection of raw, distressed and beautiful poems about a world in free-fall, and a hymn to the remarkable survival of things in the fa...

 

What Was Lost - trade paperback
By Catherine O'flynn - $22.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Costa First Novel Award.A lost little girl with a notebook and toy monkey appears on the CCTV screen of the Green Oaks shopping centre, evoking memories of junior detective, Kate...

 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - trade paperback
By Mark Haddon - $19.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel.Winner of the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year Award.Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, ...

 

The Accidental - trade paperback
By Ali Smith - $19.00 - add to cart

Shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction.I was born in the year of the supersonic, the era of the multi-storey multivitamin multitonic, the highrise time of men with the technology and wom...

 

Small Island - trade paperback
By Andrea Levy - $14.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book .Winner of the 2004 Whitbread AwardWinner of the 2004 Orange Prize for FictionIt is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 2...