BOOK AWARDS
Costa Book Awards 2006 (formerly Whitbread Prizes)
http://www.costabookawards.com
Established by Whitbread PLC — one of the UK's leading leisure companies — in 1971, the Whitbread Book Awards 'celebrate the most enjoyable British writing of the last year'.
The five category short lists are given below. The overall winner of the £25,000 Costa Book of the Year will be announced in January 2007 at an awards ceremony to be held in London.
Book of the Year Winner — announced January 2007
Tenderness of Wolves
by Stef Penney (Quercus Publishing) ISBN 9781905204816
Category Winners Announced — announced January 2007
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| First Novel | |||
| The Tenderness of Wolves | Stef Penney | Quercus Publishing | 9781905204816 |
| Novel | |||
| Restless | William Boyd | Bloomsbury | 9780747585718 |
| Biography | |||
| Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood | Brian Thompson | Atlantic | 9781843544975 |
| Poetry | |||
| Letter to Patience |
John Haynes | Seren | 9781854114129 |
Shortlists (announced mid-November)
| First Novel | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Amnesia Clinic | James Scudamore | Harvill Secker | 9781843433033 |
| Cloth Girl | Marilyn Heward Mills | Time Warner | 9780316731881 |
| The Meaning of Night: A Confession | Michael Cox | John Murray | 9780719568350 |
| The Tenderness of Wolves | Stef Penney | Quercus Publishing | 9781905204816 |
| Novel | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Black Swan Green | David Mitchell | Sceptre | 9780340822791 |
| A Spot of Bother | Mark Haddon | Jonathan Cape | 9780224080460 |
| Saving Caravaggio | Neil Griffiths | Viking | 9780670914630 |
| Restless | William Boyd | Bloomsbury | 9780747585718 |
| Biography | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood | Brian Thompson | Atlantic | 9781843544975 |
| Nabeel's Song | Jo Tatchell | Sceptre | 9780340897034 |
| Donne: The Reformed Soul | John Stubbs | Viking | 9780670915101 |
| George Mackat Brown: The Life |
Maggie Fergusson | John Murray | 9780719556593 |
| Poetry | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Dear Room | Hugo Williams | Faber & Faber | 9780571230372 |
| Letter to Patience | John Haynes | Seren | 9781854114129 |
| District and Circle | Seamus Heaney | Faber & Faber | 9780571230969 |
| The Book of Blood | Vicki Feaver | Jonathan Cape | 9780224076845 |
