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 2008
Day
by A.L.
Kennedy, Jonathan Cape ISBN 9780224077866
Category Winners Announced — announced January 2008
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| First Novel | |||
| What Was Lost | Catherine O'Flynn | Tindall St | 9780955138416 |
| Novel | |||
| Day | A.L. Kennedy | Jonathan Cape | 9780224077866 |
| Biography | |||
| Young Stalin | Simon Sebag Montefiore | Weidenfeld & Nicholson | 9780297850687 |
| Poetry | |||
| Tilt |
Jean Sprackland | Jonathan Cape | 9780224080866 |
Shortlists (announced mid-November)
| First Novel | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| A Golden Age | Tahima Anam | John Murray | 9780719560095 |
| Gifted | Nikita Lalwani | Viking | 9780670917075 |
| What Was Lost | Catherine O'Flynn | Tindall St | 9780955138416 |
| Mosquito | Roma Tearne | Harper Press | 9780007233656 |
| Novel | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Skin Lane | Neil Bartlett | Serpent's Tail | 9781852429195 |
| Day | A.L. Kennedy | Jonathan Cape | 9780224077866 |
| Death of a Murderer | Rupert Thomson | Bloomsbury | 9780747588047 |
| Road Home | Rose Tremain | Chatto & Windus | 9780701177935 |
| Biography | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Rudolf Nureyev: The Life | Julie Kavanagh | Fig Tree | 9781905490158 |
| Agent Zigzag | Ben MacIntyre | Bloomsbury | 9780747587941 |
| Young Stalin | Simon Sebag Montefiore | Weidenfeld & Nicholson | 9780297850687 |
| Fatty Batter |
Michael Simkins | Ebury | 9780091901509 |
| Poetry | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Speed of Dark | Ian Duhig | Pan Macmillan | 9780330446556 |
| The Space of Joy | John Fuller | Chatto & Windus | 9780701181109 |
| Look We Have Coming to Dover! | Daljit Nagra | Faber & Faber | 9780571231225 |
| Poetry shortlist | Tilt | Jean Sprackland | 9780224080866 |
