Costa Book Awards

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|name=Costa Book Awards

|former name=Whitbread Book Awards

|presenter=Costa Coffee

|awarded_for=English-language books by writers based in the UK and Ireland

|year={{Start date and age|1971}}

|year2={{end date and age|2021}}

|country=United Kingdom and Ireland

|image=File:Costa_Book_Awards_logo_2019.png

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The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland. Originally named the Whitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, the Whitbread company, then a brewery and owner of pub-restaurant chains, it was renamed when Costa Coffee, then a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship. The companion Costa Short Story Award was established in 2012. Costa Coffee was purchased by the Coca-Cola Company in 2018. The awards were discontinued in 2022.

The awards were given both for high literary merit and for works that were enjoyable reading, and their aim was to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. As such, they were considered a more populist literary prize than the Booker Prize, which also limited winners to literature written in the English language and published in the UK and Ireland.

Awards were separated into six categories: Biography, Children's Books, First Novel, Novel, Poetry, and Short Story.

In 1989, there was controversy when the judges first awarded the Best Novel prize to Alexander Stuart's The War Zone, then withdrew the prize prior to the ceremony amid acrimony among the judges, ultimately awarding it to Lindsay Clarke's The Chymical Wedding.

History

The 1989 Whitbread Book Award for Best Novel was first awarded to The War Zone by Alexander Stuart.{{cite web|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2000-01-11-0001100496-story.html|title=The Wrath of Roth|date=11 January 2000|publisher=Sun Sentinel |first1=Laura |last1=Kelly |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701152847/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2000-01-11-0001100496-story.html |archive-date=1 July 2021 |url-status=dead}} However, juror Jane Gardam felt the book was "repellent" and appealed directly to the Whitbread company, arguing that awarding the prize to Stuart's novel would make them into a "laughing stock"."The War Zone Diary", page 222 of the War Zone, Stuart, Alexander, ISBN 0385249535, Doubleday, 1989 After ten days, and leaking the story to the press, the other two jurors, David Cook and Val Hennessy, were persuaded to change their minds, and Lindsay Clarke's The Chymical Wedding won the award instead. Both Cook and Hennessy found the experience so unpleasant they vowed to never sit in an award jury again.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1989/12/10/book-report/990f71cb-527b-41e5-8339-6efc6e131c18/ |title=Book Report |url-access=subscription |date=10 December 1989 |author1=David Streitfeld |newspaper=The Washington Post |place=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=1330888409 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827235502/https://www.washingtonpost.com/web/20170827235502/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1989/12/10/book-report/990f71cb-527b-41e5-8339-6efc6e131c18/?utm_term=.5e3c5b5c6a4a |archive-date= Aug 27, 2017 }}

The awards were discontinued in 2022, with the 2021 awards being the last ones made.{{cite news |last1=Barnett |first1=David |title=Costa book awards scrapped suddenly after 50 years |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/10/costa-book-awards-scrapped-suddenly-after-50-years |access-date=3 March 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=10 June 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Armitstead |first1=Claire |title=Shock ending: how the Costa book awards changed reading – and pitted husband against wife |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/23/shock-ending-how-costa-book-awards-changed-reading |access-date=3 March 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=23 June 2022}} Just one month later, the Blue Peter Book Award was also discontinued; this left only three widely recognized awards for UK children's literature (the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Carnegie Medal, and the Kate Greenaway Medal).{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/06/childrens-books-world-reacts-to-horrible-loss-of-blue-peter-book-awards | title=Children's books world reacts to 'horrible loss' of Blue Peter book awards | website=TheGuardian.com | date=6 July 2022 |first1=Sarah |last1=Shaffi |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529045811/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/06/childrens-books-world-reacts-to-horrible-loss-of-blue-peter-book-awards |archive-date= May 29, 2023 }}

Process

There were five book award categories. These had not been changed since the Poetry Award was introduced in 1985, although the children's category had been termed "children's novel" or "children's book of the year". The categories are:

Novel
First novel
Children's book
Poetry
Biography

Each of the five winning writers received £5,000. The prize required a £5,000 fee from publishers if a book was to be shortlisted.

=Short stories=

The short story award was established in 2012 with a prize of £3,500 for the first, £1,000 for the second and £500 for the third.{{Cite web |url=http://www.costa.co.uk/media/430282/tscs.pdf |title=The Costa Short Story Award terms and conditions of entry |publisher=Costa |access-date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161125044044/http://www.costa.co.uk/media/430282/tscs.pdf |archive-date=25 November 2016 |url-status=dead }} The winning story was determined by public vote from a shortlist of six that were selected by a panel of judges. The process was "blind" at both stages for the unpublished entries were anonymous until the conclusion.

In the inaugural year, the six short story finalists were exposed anonymously online while the public vote was underway, two months before the winner was to be announced.

Winners

Bold font and blue ribbon ({{blue ribbon}}) distinguish the overall Costa/Whitbread Book of the Year.

For lists that include shortlisted entries (where available), please see:

= List of award winners =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
scope="col" style="width: 60px;" rowspan="2" \|Year !colspan="6"\|Award ! scope="col" style="width: 60px;" rowspan="2" \|Notes & Refs
width="170"\|Novel !width="170"\|First novel !width="170"\|Children's book !width="170"\|Poetry !width="170"\|Biography !width="170"\|Short story
align="left"\|1971 \|align="left"\|Gerda Charles The Destiny Waltz \|align="center"\|— \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Geoffrey Hill Mercian Hymns \|align="left"\|Michael Meyer Henrik Ibsen \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1972 \|align="left"\|Susan Hill The Bird of Night \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Rumer Godden The Diddakoi \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|James Pope-Hennessy Anthony Trollope \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1973 \|align="left"\|Shiva Naipaul The Chip-Chip Gatherers \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Alan Aldridge and William Plomer The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|John Wilson CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1974 \|align="left"\|Iris Murdoch The Sacred and Profane Love Machine \|align="left"\|Claire Tomalin The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft \|align="left"\|Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen Jill Paton Walsh The Emperor's Winding Sheet \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Andrew Boyle Poor Dear Brendan \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1975 \|align="left"\|William McIlvanney Docherty \|align="left"\|Ruth Spalding The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke \|align="center"\|— \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Helen Corke In Our Infancy \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1976 \|align="left"\|William Trevor The Children of Dynmouth \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Penelope Lively A Stitch in Time \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Winifred Gerin Elizabeth Gaskell \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1977 \|align="left"\|Beryl Bainbridge Injury Time \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Shelagh Macdonald No End to Yesterday \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Nigel Nicolson Mary Curzon \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1978 \|align="left"\|Paul Theroux Picture Palace \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Philippa Pearce The Battle of Bubble & Squeak \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|John Grigg Lloyd George: The People's Champion \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1979 \|align="left"\|Jennifer Johnston The Old Jest \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Peter Dickinson Tulku \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Penelope Mortimer About Time \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1980 \|align="left"\|David Lodge How Far Can You Go {{blue ribbon}} \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Leon Garfield John Diamond \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|David Newsome On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson, Diarist \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1981 \|align="left"\|Maurice Leitch Silver's City \|align="left"\|William Boyd A Good Man in Africa \|align="left"\|Jane Gardam The Hollow Land \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Nigel Hamilton Monty: The Making of a General \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1982 \|align="left"\|John Wain Young Shoulders \|align="left"\|Bruce Chatwin On the Black Hill \|align="left"\|W. J. Corbett The Song of Pentecost \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Edward Crankshaw Bismark \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1983 \|align="left"\|William Trevor Fools of Fortune \|align="left"\|John Fuller Flying to Nowhere \|align="left"\|Roald Dahl The Witches \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Victoria Glendinning Vita Kenneth Rose King George V \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1984 \|align="left"\|Christopher Hope Kruger's Alp \|align="left"\|James Buchan A Parish of Rich Women \|align="left"\|Barbara Willard The Queen of the Pharisees' Children \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Peter Ackroyd T. S. Eliot \|align="left"\|Diane Rowe Tomorrow is our Permanent Address \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1985 \|align="left"\|Peter Ackroyd Hawksmoor \|align="left"\|Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit \|align="left"\|Janni Howker The Nature of the Beast \|align="left"\|Douglas Dunn Elegies {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Ben Pimlott Hugh Dalton \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1986 \|align="left"\|Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Jim Crace Continent \|align="left"\|Andrew Taylor The Coal House \|align="left"\| Peter Reading Stet \|align="left"\|Richard Mabey Gilbert White \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1987 \|align="left"\|Ian McEwan The Child in Time \|align="left"\|Francis Wyndham The Other Garden \|align="left"\|Geraldine McCaughrean A Little Lower than the Angels \|align="left"\|Seamus Heaney The Haw Lantern \|align="left"\|Christopher Nolan Under the Eye of the Clock {{blue ribbon}} \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1988 \|align="left"\|Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses \|align="left"\|Paul Sayer The Comforts of Madness {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Judy Allen Awaiting Developments \|align="left"\|Peter Porter The Automatic Oracle \|align="left"\|A. N. Wilson Tolstoy \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1989 \|align="left"\|Lindsay Clarke The Chymical Wedding \|align="left"\|James Hamilton-Paterson Gerontius \|align="left"\|Hugh Scott Why Weeps the Brogan \|align="left"\|Michael Donaghy Shibboleth \|align="left"\|Richard Holmes Coleridge: Early Visions {{blue ribbon}} \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1990 \|align="left"\|Nicholas Mosley Hopeful Monsters {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Hanif Kureishi The Buddha of Suburbia \|align="left"\|Peter Dickinson AK \|align="left"\|Paul Durcan Daddy, Daddy \|align="left"\|Ann Thwaite AA Milne – His Life \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1991 \|align="left"\|Jane Gardam The Queen of the Tambourine \|align="left"\|Gordon Burn Alma Cogan \|align="left"\|Diana Hendry Harvey Angell \|align="left"\|Michael Longley Gorse Fires \|align="left"\|John Richardson A Life of Picasso {{blue ribbon}} \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1992 \|align="left"\|Alasdair Gray Poor Things \|align="left"\|Jeff Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Gillian Cross The Great Elephant Chase \|align="left"\|Tony Harrison The Gaze of the Gorgon \|align="left"\|Victoria Glendinning Trollope \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1993 \|align="left"\|Joan Brady Theory of War {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Rachel Cusk Saving Agnes \|align="left"\|Anne Fine Flour Babies \|align="left"\|Carol Ann Duffy Mean Time \|align="left"\|Andrew Motion Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1994 \|align="left"\|William Trevor Felicia's Journey {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Fred D'Aguiar The Longest Memory \|align="left"\|Geraldine McCaughrean Gold Dust \|align="left"\|James Fenton Out of Danger \|align="left"\|Brenda Maddox D H Lawrence: The Married Man \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1995 \|align="left"\|Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh \|align="left"\|Kate Atkinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Michael Morpurgo The Wreck of the Zanzibar \|align="left"\|Bernard O'Donoghue Gunpowder \|align="left"\|Roy Jenkins Gladstone \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1996 \|align="left"\|Beryl Bainbridge Every Man for Himself \|align="left"\|John Lanchester The Debt to Pleasure \|align="left"\|Anne Fine The Tulip Touch \|align="left"\|Seamus Heaney The Spirit Level {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Diarmaid MacCulloch Thomas Cranmer: A Life \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1997 \|align="left"\|Jim Crace Quarantine \|align="left"\|Pauline Melville The Ventriloquist's Tale \|align="left"\|Andrew Norriss Aquila \|align="left"\|Ted Hughes Tales from Ovid {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Graham Robb Victor Hugo \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|1998 \|align="left"\|Justin Cartwright Leading the Cheers \|align="left"\|Giles Foden The Last King of Scotland \|align="left"\|David Almond Skellig \|align="left"\|Ted Hughes Birthday Letters {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Amanda Foreman Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Posthumous Book of the Year Award
align="left"\|1999 \|align="left"\|Rose Tremain Music and Silence \|align="left"\|Tim Lott White City Blue \|align="left"\|J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban \|align="left"\|Seamus Heaney Beowulf: A New Verse Translation {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|David Cairns Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2000 \|align="left"\|Matthew Kneale English Passengers {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Zadie Smith White Teeth \|align="left"\|Jamila Gavin Coram Boy \|align="left"\|John Burnside The Asylum Dance \|align="left"\|Lorna Sage Bad Blood – A Memoir \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2001 \|align="left"\|Patrick Neate Twelve Bar Blues \|align="left"\|Sid Smith Something Like A House \|align="left"\|Philip Pullman The Amber Spyglass {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Selima Hill Bunny \|align="left"\|Diana Souhami Selkirk's Island \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2002 \|align="left"\|Michael Frayn Spies \|align="left"\|Norman Lebrecht The Song of Names \|align="left"\|Hilary McKay Saffy's Angel \|align="left"\|Paul Farley The Ice Age \|align="left"\|Claire Tomalin Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self {{blue ribbon}} \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2003 \|align="left"\|Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|DBC Pierre Vernon God Little \|align="left"\|David Almond The Fire-Eaters \|align="left"\|Don Paterson Landing Light (poetry collection) \|align="left"\|DJ Taylor Orwell: The Life \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2004 \|align="left"\|Andrea Levy Small Island {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Susan Fletcher Eve Green \|align="left"\|Geraldine McCaughrean Not the End of the World \|align="left"\|Michael Symmons Roberts Corpus \|align="left"\|John Guy My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2005 \|align="left"\|Ali Smith The Accidental \|align="left"\|Tash Aw The Harmony Silk Factory \|align="left"\|Kate Thompson The New Policeman \|align="left"\|Christopher Logue Cold Calls \|align="left"\|Hilary Spurling Matisse the Master {{blue ribbon}} \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2006 \|align="left"\|William Boyd Restless \|align="left"\|Stef Penney The Tenderness of Wolves {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Linda Newbery Set in Stone \|align="left"\|John Haynes Letter to Patience \|align="left"\|Brian Thompson Keeping Mum \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2007 \|align="left"\|A.L. Kennedy Day {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Catherine O'Flynn What Was Lost \|align="left"\|Ann Kelley The Bower Bird \|align="left"\|Jean Sprackland Tilt \|align="left"\|Simon Sebag Montefiore Young Stalin \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2008 \|align="left"\|Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Sadie Jones The Outcast \|align="left"\|Michelle Magorian Just Henry \|align="left"\|Adam Foulds The Broken Word \|align="left"\|Diana Athill Somewhere Towards the End \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2009 \|align="left"\|Colm Tóibin Brooklyn \|align="left"\|Raphael Selbourne Beauty \|align="left"\|Patrick Ness The Ask and the Answer \|align="left"\|Christopher Reid A Scattering {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Graham Farmelo The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2010 \|align="left"\|Maggie O'Farrell The Hand That First Held Mine \|align="left"\|Kishwar Desai Witness the Night \|align="left"\|Jason Wallace Out of Shadows \|align="left"\|Jo Shapcott Of Mutability {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Edmund de Waal The Hare with Amber Eyes \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2011 \|align="left"\|Andrew Miller Pure {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Christie Watson Tiny Sunbirds Far Away \|align="left"\|Moira Young Blood Red Road \|align="left"\|Carol Ann Duffy The Bees \|align="left"\|Matthew Hollis Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2012 \|align="left"\|Hilary Mantel Bring up the Bodies {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Francesca Segal The Innocents \|align="left"\|Sally Gardner Maggot Moon \|align="left"\|Kathleen Jamie The Overhaul \|align="left"\|Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot Dotter of Her Father's Eyes \|align="left"\|Avril Joy Millie and Bird \|align="left"\|[http://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/costa-short-story-award/ "Costa Short Story Award"] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140215050344/http://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/costa-short-story-award/ \|date=15 February 2014 }}. Costa Book Awards. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
align="left"\|2013 \|align="left"\|Kate Atkinson Life after Life \|align="left"\|Nathan Filer The Shock of the Fall {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Chris Riddell Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse \|align="left"\|Michael Symmons Roberts Drysalter \|align="left"\| Lucy Hughes-Hallett The Pike \|align="left"\|Angela Readman The Keeper of the Jackalopes \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2014 \|align="left"\|Ali Smith How to Be Both \|align="left"\|Emma Healey Elizabeth is Missing \|align="left"\|Kate Saunders Five Children on the Western Front \|align="left"\|Jonathan Edwards My Family and Other Superheroes \|align="left"\|Helen Macdonald H is for Hawk {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Zoe Gilbert Fishskin, Hareskin \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2015 \|align="left"\|Kate Atkinson A God in Ruins \|align="left"\|Andrew Michael Hurley The Loney \|align="left"\|Frances Hardinge The Lie Tree {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Don Paterson 40 Sonnets \|align="left"\|Andrea Wulf The Invention of Nature \|align="left"\|Danny Murphy Rogey \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2016 \|align="left"\|Sebastian Barry Days Without End {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Francis Spufford Golden Hill \|align="left"\|Brian Conaghan The Bombs That Brought Us Together \|align="left"\|Alice Oswald Falling Awake \|align="left"\|Keggie Carew Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory \|align="left"\|Jess Kidd Dirty Little Fishes \|align="left"\|
align="left"\|2017 \|align="left"\|Jon McGregor Reservoir 13 \|align="left"\|Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine \|align="left"\|Katherine Rundell The Explorer \|align="left"\|Helen Dunmore Inside the Wave {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Rebecca Stott In the Days of Rain \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|Posthumous Book of the Year Award{{cite web\|url=https://www.costa.co.uk/media/487568/2017-awards.pdf\|title=Costa Book Awards 2017\|publisher=Costa Book Awards\|date=January 2018\|access-date=2018-01-03\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103073040/https://www.costa.co.uk/media/487568/2017-awards.pdf\|archive-date=2018-01-03\|url-status=dead}}
align="left"\|2018 \|align="left"\|Sally Rooney Normal People \|align="left"\|Stuart Turton The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle \|align="left"\|Hilary McKay The Skylarks' War \|align="left"\|J. O. Morgan Assurances \|align="left"\|Bart van Es The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found {{blue ribbon}} \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|{{cite web\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1gF4PfT74lbBGG8tdXvnCc5/costa-book-awards-2018-the-category-award-winners-are\|title=Costa Book Awards 2018: the category award winners are...\|publisher=BBC\|date=January 2019\|access-date=2019-01-08}}
align="left"\|2019 \|align="left"\|Jonathan Coe Middle England \|align="left"\|Sara Collins The Confessions of Frannie Langton \|align="left"\|Jasbinder Bilan Asha & the Spirit Bird \|align="left"\|Mary Jean Chan Flèche \|align="left"\|Jack Fairweather The Volunteer {{blue ribbon}}{{Cite news \|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/costa-book-year-won-fairweathers-volunteer-1176911 \|title=Costa Book of the Year won by Fairweather's The Volunteer \|last=Chandler \|first=Mark \|date=28 January 2020 \|work=The Bookseller \|access-date=28 January 2020 }} \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|{{Cite news \|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/costa-book-awards-2019-winners-revealed-1.4131655 \|title=Costa Book Awards 2019 winners revealed \|last=Doyle \|first=Martin \|date=6 January 2020 \|newspaper=The Irish Times \|access-date=28 January 2020 \|language=en}}
align="left"\|2020 \|align="left"\|Monique Roffey The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story{{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|Ingrid Persaud Love After Love \|align="left"\|Natasha Farrant Voyage of the Sparrowhawk \|align="left"\|Eavan Boland The Historians \|align="left"\|Lee Lawrence The Louder I Will Sing \|align="left"\|Tessa Sheridan The Person Who Serves, Serves Again \|align="left"\|{{cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55816858\|title=Costa Book of the Year: 'Utterly original' Mermaid of Black Conch wins\|publisher=BBC\|date=January 2021\|access-date=2021-02-03}}
align="left"\|2021 \|align="left"\|Claire Fuller, Unsettled Ground \|align="left"\|Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water \|align="left"\|Manjeet Mann, The Crossing \|align="left"\|Hannah Lowe, The Kids {{blue ribbon}} \|align="left"\|John Preston, Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell \|align="center"\|— \|align="left"\|{{Cite web\|title=Costa Book Awards 2021 category winners announced\|url=https://costanewsroom.vuelio.co.uk/press/press-releases/a657bbca-30fd-4330-81e0-3976bcc4a5ba/costa-book-awards-2021-category-winners-announced\|access-date=2022-01-05\|website=Costa}}
style="width: 60px" rowspan="1"\|Year !width="120"\|Novel !width="120"\|First novel !width="120"\|Children's book !width="120"\|Poetry !width="120"\|Biography !width="120"\|Short story !width="120"\|Notes & Refs
align="center" colspan="30" style="font-size: 8pt"\| "—" not awarded this year

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

scope="col" style="width: 60px;" rowspan="2" |Year

!colspan="6"|Award

! scope="col" style="width: 60px;" rowspan="2" |Notes & Refs

width="170"|Novel

!width="170"|First novel

!width="170"|Children's book

!width="170"|Poetry

!width="170"|Biography

!width="170"|Short story

align="left"|1971

|align="left"|Gerda Charles
The Destiny Waltz

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns

|align="left"|Michael Meyer
Henrik Ibsen

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1972

|align="left"|Susan Hill
The Bird of Night

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Rumer Godden
The Diddakoi

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|James Pope-Hennessy
Anthony Trollope

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1973

|align="left"|Shiva Naipaul
The Chip-Chip Gatherers

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Alan Aldridge and William Plomer
The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|John Wilson
CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1974

|align="left"|Iris Murdoch
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

|align="left"|Claire Tomalin
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

|align="left"|Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
Jill Paton Walsh
The Emperor's Winding Sheet

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Andrew Boyle
Poor Dear Brendan

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1975

|align="left"|William McIlvanney
Docherty

|align="left"|Ruth Spalding
The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Helen Corke
In Our Infancy

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1976

|align="left"|William Trevor
The Children of Dynmouth

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Penelope Lively
A Stitch in Time

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Winifred Gerin
Elizabeth Gaskell

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1977

|align="left"|Beryl Bainbridge
Injury Time

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Shelagh Macdonald
No End to Yesterday

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Nigel Nicolson
Mary Curzon

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1978

|align="left"|Paul Theroux
Picture Palace

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Philippa Pearce
The Battle of Bubble & Squeak

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|John Grigg
Lloyd George: The People's Champion

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1979

|align="left"|Jennifer Johnston
The Old Jest

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Peter Dickinson
Tulku

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Penelope Mortimer
About Time

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1980

|align="left"|David Lodge
How Far Can You Go {{blue ribbon}}

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Leon Garfield
John Diamond

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|David Newsome
On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson, Diarist

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1981

|align="left"|Maurice Leitch
Silver's City

|align="left"|William Boyd
A Good Man in Africa

|align="left"|Jane Gardam
The Hollow Land

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Nigel Hamilton
Monty: The Making of a General

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1982

|align="left"|John Wain
Young Shoulders

|align="left"|Bruce Chatwin
On the Black Hill

|align="left"|W. J. Corbett
The Song of Pentecost

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Edward Crankshaw
Bismark

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1983

|align="left"|William Trevor
Fools of Fortune

|align="left"|John Fuller
Flying to Nowhere

|align="left"|Roald Dahl
The Witches

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Victoria Glendinning
Vita
Kenneth Rose
King George V

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1984

|align="left"|Christopher Hope
Kruger's Alp

|align="left"|James Buchan
A Parish of Rich Women

|align="left"|Barbara Willard
The Queen of the Pharisees' Children

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Peter Ackroyd
T. S. Eliot

|align="left"|Diane Rowe
Tomorrow is our Permanent Address

|align="left"|

align="left"|1985

|align="left"|Peter Ackroyd
Hawksmoor

|align="left"|Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

|align="left"|Janni Howker
The Nature of the Beast

|align="left"|Douglas Dunn
Elegies {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Ben Pimlott
Hugh Dalton

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1986

|align="left"|Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Jim Crace
Continent

|align="left"|Andrew Taylor
The Coal House

|align="left"| Peter Reading
Stet

|align="left"|Richard Mabey
Gilbert White

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1987

|align="left"|Ian McEwan
The Child in Time

|align="left"|Francis Wyndham
The Other Garden

|align="left"|Geraldine McCaughrean
A Little Lower than the Angels

|align="left"|Seamus Heaney
The Haw Lantern

|align="left"|Christopher Nolan
Under the Eye of the Clock {{blue ribbon}}

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1988

|align="left"|Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses

|align="left"|Paul Sayer
The Comforts of Madness {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Judy Allen
Awaiting Developments

|align="left"|Peter Porter
The Automatic Oracle

|align="left"|A. N. Wilson
Tolstoy

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1989

|align="left"|Lindsay Clarke
The Chymical Wedding

|align="left"|James Hamilton-Paterson
Gerontius

|align="left"|Hugh Scott
Why Weeps the Brogan

|align="left"|Michael Donaghy
Shibboleth

|align="left"|Richard Holmes
Coleridge: Early Visions {{blue ribbon}}

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1990

|align="left"|Nicholas Mosley
Hopeful Monsters {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Hanif Kureishi
The Buddha of Suburbia

|align="left"|Peter Dickinson
AK

|align="left"|Paul Durcan
Daddy, Daddy

|align="left"|Ann Thwaite
AA Milne – His Life

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1991

|align="left"|Jane Gardam
The Queen of the Tambourine

|align="left"|Gordon Burn
Alma Cogan

|align="left"|Diana Hendry
Harvey Angell

|align="left"|Michael Longley
Gorse Fires

|align="left"|John Richardson
A Life of Picasso {{blue ribbon}}

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1992

|align="left"|Alasdair Gray
Poor Things

|align="left"|Jeff Torrington
Swing Hammer Swing! {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Gillian Cross
The Great Elephant Chase

|align="left"|Tony Harrison
The Gaze of the Gorgon

|align="left"|Victoria Glendinning
Trollope

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1993

|align="left"|Joan Brady
Theory of War {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Rachel Cusk
Saving Agnes

|align="left"|Anne Fine
Flour Babies

|align="left"|Carol Ann Duffy
Mean Time

|align="left"|Andrew Motion
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1994

|align="left"|William Trevor
Felicia's Journey {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Fred D'Aguiar
The Longest Memory

|align="left"|Geraldine McCaughrean
Gold Dust

|align="left"|James Fenton
Out of Danger

|align="left"|Brenda Maddox
D H Lawrence: The Married Man

|align="center"|—

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align="left"|1995

|align="left"|Salman Rushdie
The Moor's Last Sigh

|align="left"|Kate Atkinson
Behind the Scenes at the Museum {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Michael Morpurgo
The Wreck of the Zanzibar

|align="left"|Bernard O'Donoghue
Gunpowder

|align="left"|Roy Jenkins
Gladstone

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1996

|align="left"|Beryl Bainbridge
Every Man for Himself

|align="left"|John Lanchester
The Debt to Pleasure

|align="left"|Anne Fine
The Tulip Touch

|align="left"|Seamus Heaney
The Spirit Level {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Diarmaid MacCulloch
Thomas Cranmer: A Life

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1997

|align="left"|Jim Crace
Quarantine

|align="left"|Pauline Melville
The Ventriloquist's Tale

|align="left"|Andrew Norriss
Aquila

|align="left"|Ted Hughes
Tales from Ovid {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Graham Robb
Victor Hugo

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|1998

|align="left"|Justin Cartwright
Leading the Cheers

|align="left"|Giles Foden
The Last King of Scotland

|align="left"|David Almond
Skellig

|align="left"|Ted Hughes
Birthday Letters {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Amanda Foreman
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Posthumous Book of the Year Award

align="left"|1999

|align="left"|Rose Tremain
Music and Silence

|align="left"|Tim Lott
White City Blue

|align="left"|J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

|align="left"|Seamus Heaney
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|David Cairns
Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness

|align="center"|—

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align="left"|2000

|align="left"|Matthew Kneale
English Passengers {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Zadie Smith
White Teeth

|align="left"|Jamila Gavin
Coram Boy

|align="left"|John Burnside
The Asylum Dance

|align="left"|Lorna Sage
Bad Blood – A Memoir

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|2001

|align="left"|Patrick Neate
Twelve Bar Blues

|align="left"|Sid Smith
Something Like A House

|align="left"|Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Selima Hill
Bunny

|align="left"|Diana Souhami
Selkirk's Island

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|2002

|align="left"|Michael Frayn
Spies

|align="left"|Norman Lebrecht
The Song of Names

|align="left"|Hilary McKay
Saffy's Angel

|align="left"|Paul Farley
The Ice Age

|align="left"|Claire Tomalin
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self {{blue ribbon}}

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|2003

|align="left"|Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|DBC Pierre
Vernon God Little

|align="left"|David Almond
The Fire-Eaters

|align="left"|Don Paterson
Landing Light (poetry collection)

|align="left"|DJ Taylor
Orwell: The Life

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|2004

|align="left"|Andrea Levy
Small Island {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Susan Fletcher
Eve Green

|align="left"|Geraldine McCaughrean
Not the End of the World

|align="left"|Michael Symmons Roberts
Corpus

|align="left"|John Guy
My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|2005

|align="left"|Ali Smith
The Accidental

|align="left"|Tash Aw
The Harmony Silk Factory

|align="left"|Kate Thompson
The New Policeman

|align="left"|Christopher Logue
Cold Calls

|align="left"|Hilary Spurling
Matisse the Master {{blue ribbon}}

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|2006

|align="left"|William Boyd
Restless

|align="left"|Stef Penney
The Tenderness of Wolves {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Linda Newbery
Set in Stone

|align="left"|John Haynes
Letter to Patience

|align="left"|Brian Thompson
Keeping Mum

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|2007

|align="left"|A.L. Kennedy
Day {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Catherine O'Flynn
What Was Lost

|align="left"|Ann Kelley
The Bower Bird

|align="left"|Jean Sprackland
Tilt

|align="left"|Simon Sebag Montefiore
Young Stalin

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|2008

|align="left"|Sebastian Barry
The Secret Scripture {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Sadie Jones
The Outcast

|align="left"|Michelle Magorian
Just Henry

|align="left"|Adam Foulds
The Broken Word

|align="left"|Diana Athill
Somewhere Towards the End

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|2009

|align="left"|Colm Tóibin
Brooklyn

|align="left"|Raphael Selbourne
Beauty

|align="left"|Patrick Ness
The Ask and the Answer

|align="left"|Christopher Reid
A Scattering {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Graham Farmelo
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|2010

|align="left"|Maggie O'Farrell
The Hand That First Held Mine

|align="left"|Kishwar Desai
Witness the Night

|align="left"|Jason Wallace
Out of Shadows

|align="left"|Jo Shapcott
Of Mutability {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Edmund de Waal
The Hare with Amber Eyes

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|2011

|align="left"|Andrew Miller
Pure {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Christie Watson
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away

|align="left"|Moira Young
Blood Red Road

|align="left"|Carol Ann Duffy
The Bees

|align="left"|Matthew Hollis
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|

align="left"|2012

|align="left"|Hilary Mantel
Bring up the Bodies {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Francesca Segal
The Innocents

|align="left"|Sally Gardner
Maggot Moon

|align="left"|Kathleen Jamie
The Overhaul

|align="left"|Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot
Dotter of Her Father's Eyes

|align="left"|Avril Joy
Millie and Bird

|align="left"|[http://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/costa-short-story-award/ "Costa Short Story Award"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140215050344/http://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/costa-short-story-award/ |date=15 February 2014 }}. Costa Book Awards. Retrieved 2014-02-03.

align="left"|2013

|align="left"|Kate Atkinson
Life after Life

|align="left"|Nathan Filer
The Shock of the Fall {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Chris Riddell
Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse

|align="left"|Michael Symmons Roberts
Drysalter

|align="left"| Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Pike

|align="left"|Angela Readman
The Keeper of the Jackalopes

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align="left"|2014

|align="left"|Ali Smith
How to Be Both

|align="left"|Emma Healey
Elizabeth is Missing

|align="left"|Kate Saunders
Five Children on the Western Front

|align="left"|Jonathan Edwards
My Family and Other Superheroes

|align="left"|Helen Macdonald
H is for Hawk {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Zoe Gilbert
Fishskin, Hareskin

|align="left"|

align="left"|2015

|align="left"|Kate Atkinson
A God in Ruins

|align="left"|Andrew Michael Hurley
The Loney

|align="left"|Frances Hardinge
The Lie Tree {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Don Paterson
40 Sonnets

|align="left"|Andrea Wulf
The Invention of Nature

|align="left"|Danny Murphy
Rogey

|align="left"|

align="left"|2016

|align="left"|Sebastian Barry
Days Without End {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Francis Spufford
Golden Hill

|align="left"|Brian Conaghan
The Bombs That Brought Us Together

|align="left"|Alice Oswald
Falling Awake

|align="left"|Keggie Carew
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory

|align="left"|Jess Kidd
Dirty Little Fishes

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align="left"|2017

|align="left"|Jon McGregor
Reservoir 13

|align="left"|Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

|align="left"|Katherine Rundell
The Explorer

|align="left"|Helen Dunmore
Inside the Wave {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Rebecca Stott
In the Days of Rain

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|Posthumous Book of the Year Award{{cite web|url=https://www.costa.co.uk/media/487568/2017-awards.pdf|title=Costa Book Awards 2017|publisher=Costa Book Awards|date=January 2018|access-date=2018-01-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103073040/https://www.costa.co.uk/media/487568/2017-awards.pdf|archive-date=2018-01-03|url-status=dead}}

align="left"|2018

|align="left"|Sally Rooney
Normal People

|align="left"|Stuart Turton
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

|align="left"|Hilary McKay
The Skylarks' War

|align="left"|J. O. Morgan
Assurances

|align="left"|Bart van Es
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found {{blue ribbon}}

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1gF4PfT74lbBGG8tdXvnCc5/costa-book-awards-2018-the-category-award-winners-are|title=Costa Book Awards 2018: the category award winners are...|publisher=BBC|date=January 2019|access-date=2019-01-08}}

align="left"|2019

|align="left"|Jonathan Coe
Middle England

|align="left"|Sara Collins
The Confessions of Frannie Langton

|align="left"|Jasbinder Bilan
Asha & the Spirit Bird

|align="left"|Mary Jean Chan
Flèche

|align="left"|Jack Fairweather
The Volunteer {{blue ribbon}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/costa-book-year-won-fairweathers-volunteer-1176911 |title=Costa Book of the Year won by Fairweather's The Volunteer |last=Chandler |first=Mark |date=28 January 2020 |work=The Bookseller |access-date=28 January 2020 }}

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|{{Cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/costa-book-awards-2019-winners-revealed-1.4131655 |title=Costa Book Awards 2019 winners revealed |last=Doyle |first=Martin |date=6 January 2020 |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=28 January 2020 |language=en}}

align="left"|2020

|align="left"|Monique Roffey
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story{{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|Ingrid Persaud
Love After Love

|align="left"|Natasha Farrant
Voyage of the Sparrowhawk

|align="left"|Eavan Boland
The Historians

|align="left"|Lee Lawrence
The Louder I Will Sing

|align="left"|Tessa Sheridan
The Person Who Serves, Serves Again

|align="left"|{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55816858|title=Costa Book of the Year: 'Utterly original' Mermaid of Black Conch wins|publisher=BBC|date=January 2021|access-date=2021-02-03}}

align="left"|2021

|align="left"|Claire Fuller, Unsettled Ground

|align="left"|Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

|align="left"|Manjeet Mann, The Crossing

|align="left"|Hannah Lowe, The Kids {{blue ribbon}}

|align="left"|John Preston, Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

|align="center"|—

|align="left"|{{Cite web|title=Costa Book Awards 2021 category winners announced|url=https://costanewsroom.vuelio.co.uk/press/press-releases/a657bbca-30fd-4330-81e0-3976bcc4a5ba/costa-book-awards-2021-category-winners-announced|access-date=2022-01-05|website=Costa}}

style="width: 60px" rowspan="1"|Year

!width="120"|Novel

!width="120"|First novel

!width="120"|Children's book

!width="120"|Poetry

!width="120"|Biography

!width="120"|Short story

!width="120"|Notes & Refs

align="center" colspan="30" style="font-size: 8pt"| "—" not awarded this year

References

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{{cite web |url-status=dead |url=http://www.costa.co.uk/media/300231/CBA-Past-Winners-2015-Version.pdf |title=CBA Past Winners 2015 Version |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915193952/http://www.costa.co.uk/media/300231/CBA-Past-Winners-2015-Version.pdf |archive-date=15 September 2015 |website=Costa Book Awards |access-date=12 September 2015}}

{{cite web |url-status=dead |url=http://www.costa.co.uk/media/300267/CBA-Past-Shortlists-2015-Version.pdf |title=CBA Past Shortlists 2015 Version |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124012436/http://www.costa.co.uk/media/300267/CBA-Past-Shortlists-2015-Version.pdf |archive-date=24 November 2015 |website= Costa Book Awards |access-date=12 September 2015}}

{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jul/17/costa-short-story-award |date=17 July 2012 |author=Alison Flood |title=Costa's new short story award to be judged anonymously |work=The Guardian |access-date=17 July 2012}}

Alison Flood (28 November 2012). [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/28/costa-short-story-prize-public-vote?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 "Costa short story prize to be decided by public vote"]. Alison Flood. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2012.

{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/02/on-eve-of-costa-awards-experts-warn-that-top-books-prizes-are-harming-fiction |author=Danuta Kean |title=On eve of Costa awards, experts warn that top books prizes are harming fiction |work=The Guardian |date=2 January 2017 |access-date=27 November 2018 |quote="The biggest three prizes, including the Costas, require a £5,000 fee from publishers if a book is shortlisted. This is a contribution towards marketing and should, the organisers claim, be offset by increases in sales."}}

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Costa Book Awards

History

Process

=Short stories=

Winners

= List of award winners =

See also

References

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