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 |
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| What Was Lost |
Catherine O'Flynn |
Tindall St |
9780955138416 |
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| Novel |
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| Day |
A.L. Kennedy |
Jonathan Cape |
9780224077866 |
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| Biography |
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| Young Stalin |
Simon Sebag Montefiore |
Weidenfeld & Nicholson |
9780297850687 |
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| Poetry |
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Tilt
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Jean Sprackland |
Jonathan Cape |
9780224080866 |
Shortlists (announced mid-November)
| First Novel |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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