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'''2013 Costa Novel Award shortlist'''
 
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618670</amazonuk>
 
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'''2013 Costa First Novel Award shortlist'''
 
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|author=Nathan Filer
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|title=The Shock of the Fall
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|rating=Unreviewed
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|genre=Literary Fiction
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|summary= Harper Collins request 27/11
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007491433</amazonuk>
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|summary= Struan Robertson was just seventeen, but set to go to Aberdeen to study dentistry, when his English teacher passed him a short advertisement.  A literary giant needed a carer.  Why not take a gap year?  Struan had never been to ‘’England’’ before and he would be living in Hampstead.  On the plus side he’d been working in a care home to earn money and he could do the work.  Soon - almost too soon - Struan was the main carer for Phillip Prys, rendered dumb and paralysed by a massive stroke.  His family couldn’t take care of him - the young (very young) third wife was too busy with her painting.  His son, Jake, had other things - anything else - to do rather than be in his father’s presence.  Juliet had never been her father’s favourite but she wasn’t ‘’exactly’’ stable when it came to helping.
 
|summary= Struan Robertson was just seventeen, but set to go to Aberdeen to study dentistry, when his English teacher passed him a short advertisement.  A literary giant needed a carer.  Why not take a gap year?  Struan had never been to ‘’England’’ before and he would be living in Hampstead.  On the plus side he’d been working in a care home to earn money and he could do the work.  Soon - almost too soon - Struan was the main carer for Phillip Prys, rendered dumb and paralysed by a massive stroke.  His family couldn’t take care of him - the young (very young) third wife was too busy with her painting.  His son, Jake, had other things - anything else - to do rather than be in his father’s presence.  Juliet had never been her father’s favourite but she wasn’t ‘’exactly’’ stable when it came to helping.
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330535277</amazonuk>
 
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|author=Nathan Filer
 
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|summary= Harper Collins request 27/11
 
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007491433</amazonuk>
 
 
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'''2013 Costa Biography Award shortlist'''
 
'''2013 Costa Biography Award shortlist'''
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|author=Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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|title=The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
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|rating=3.5
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|genre=Biography
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|summary=Gabriele d’Annunzio was a strange and perhaps fortunately unique character, a kind of 20th century Renaissance man who almost defies posterity to pigeonhole him.  At various times he was a poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist, adventurer, self-styled demagogue and philanderer.  Although he lost several friends during the First World War, as well as the sight of one eye when his plane was shot down, he had a passion for war, seeing bloodshed as manly and death in battle as glorious self-sacrifice.  He had the dodgiest of moral compasses, and yet was hardly the Adonis he believed himself to be.  One French courtesan who firmly rebuffed his physical advances later called him ‘a frightful gnome with red-rimmed eyes and no eyelashes, no hair, greenish teeth, bad breath and the manners of a mountebank’.  Had he been alive today, he would have probably been an instant celebrity and media personality with a very short shelf-life.  One half Jeremy Clarkson, one half Russell Brand, one might say.
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007213964</amazonuk>
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'''Other books on the shortlist'''
 
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|author=Gavin Francis
 
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|summary= This dual biography concerns, as the title makes clear, two men. One was from an inherently German, rich Jewish family – they had a powerboat so he could waterski on the lake at their country cottage – who fled the rise of the Nazis early in the 1930s, and got away moderately lightly, only losing properties and a large and successful medical career. The other was from an inherently German family, who signed up for First World War service before his age, but only really wanted to be a farmer and family man, yet who ended up running probably history's worst slaughterhouse. Both had a connection and a shared destiny that was largely unknown before this book was researched, there's a chance that both of them had the blood of one man and only one man directly on their hands from WWII service, and both of them – again, as the title makes clear – are given the dignity of the familiar, first name throughout this incredible book.
 
|summary= This dual biography concerns, as the title makes clear, two men. One was from an inherently German, rich Jewish family – they had a powerboat so he could waterski on the lake at their country cottage – who fled the rise of the Nazis early in the 1930s, and got away moderately lightly, only losing properties and a large and successful medical career. The other was from an inherently German family, who signed up for First World War service before his age, but only really wanted to be a farmer and family man, yet who ended up running probably history's worst slaughterhouse. Both had a connection and a shared destiny that was largely unknown before this book was researched, there's a chance that both of them had the blood of one man and only one man directly on their hands from WWII service, and both of them – again, as the title makes clear – are given the dignity of the familiar, first name throughout this incredible book.
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022365</amazonuk>
 
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|title=The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
 
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|genre=Biography
 
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|summary=Gabriele d’Annunzio was a strange and perhaps fortunately unique character, a kind of 20th century Renaissance man who almost defies posterity to pigeonhole him.  At various times he was a poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist, adventurer, self-styled demagogue and philanderer.  Although he lost several friends during the First World War, as well as the sight of one eye when his plane was shot down, he had a passion for war, seeing bloodshed as manly and death in battle as glorious self-sacrifice.  He had the dodgiest of moral compasses, and yet was hardly the Adonis he believed himself to be.  One French courtesan who firmly rebuffed his physical advances later called him ‘a frightful gnome with red-rimmed eyes and no eyelashes, no hair, greenish teeth, bad breath and the manners of a mountebank’.  Had he been alive today, he would have probably been an instant celebrity and media personality with a very short shelf-life.  One half Jeremy Clarkson, one half Russell Brand, one might say.
 
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'''2013 Costa Poetry Award shortlist'''
 
'''2013 Costa Poetry Award shortlist'''
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'''Winner'''
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Michael Symmons Roberts for Drysalter (Jonathan Cape)
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'''Other books on the shortlist'''
  
 
Clive James for Dante, The Divine Comedy (Picador)
 
Clive James for Dante, The Divine Comedy (Picador)
 
Helen Mort for Division Street (Chatto & Windus)
 
Helen Mort for Division Street (Chatto & Windus)
 
Robin Robertson for Hill of Doors (Picador)
 
Robin Robertson for Hill of Doors (Picador)
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Michael Symmons Roberts for Drysalter (Jonathan Cape)
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'''2013 Costa Children’s Book Award shortlist'''
 
'''2013 Costa Children’s Book Award shortlist'''
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'''Winner'''
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|author=Chris Riddell
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|title=Goth Girl: and the Ghost of a Mouse
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|rating=4.5
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|genre=Confident Readers
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|summary= It all starts with ''sigh, soft and sad and ending in a little squeak''.  But while some mice can end up roaring, so this book soon escalates from just meeting the ghost of a dead mouse to something much bigger.  Through exploring the country pile Goth Girl Ada lives in with her father, alongside the ghost mouse, she finds an albatross, a Polar Explorer who might be a monster, and then a compact club of young people her age she had no idea existed.  There's even more to be found after that, as Ada discovers how malevolent the party season's plans are going to get, with a nasty indoor hunt having some remarkable prey…
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230759807</amazonuk>
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|summary= The Wigman is at large, murdering children. You'd think this would be the first concern for Titus Adams, as he's only fifteen, his parents are incorrigible drunks and he has a young sister, Hannah, to look out for. But in London in the late 1800s, there are more pressing concerns than serial killers on the loose. Like how to pay the rent. Like where the next meal is coming from. Like staying out of the workhouse. Like keeping your sister on the right side of the law. Thankfully, Titus has a friend in Inspector Pilsbury. He doesn't arrest Hannah when she's caught with pickpockets. He feeds her and keeps her safe at the station until Titus comes to collect her.
 
|summary= The Wigman is at large, murdering children. You'd think this would be the first concern for Titus Adams, as he's only fifteen, his parents are incorrigible drunks and he has a young sister, Hannah, to look out for. But in London in the late 1800s, there are more pressing concerns than serial killers on the loose. Like how to pay the rent. Like where the next meal is coming from. Like staying out of the workhouse. Like keeping your sister on the right side of the law. Thankfully, Titus has a friend in Inspector Pilsbury. He doesn't arrest Hannah when she's caught with pickpockets. He feeds her and keeps her safe at the station until Titus comes to collect her.
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707864X</amazonuk>
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707864X</amazonuk>
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|title=Goth Girl: and the Ghost of a Mouse
 
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|summary= It all starts with ''sigh, soft and sad and ending in a little squeak''.  But while some mice can end up roaring, so this book soon escalates from just meeting the ghost of a dead mouse to something much bigger.  Through exploring the country pile Goth Girl Ada lives in with her father, alongside the ghost mouse, she finds an albatross, a Polar Explorer who might be a monster, and then a compact club of young people her age she had no idea existed.  There's even more to be found after that, as Ada discovers how malevolent the party season's plans are going to get, with a nasty indoor hunt having some remarkable prey…
 
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230759807</amazonuk>
 
 
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Revision as of 08:02, 7 January 2014

The category shortlists were announced on 27 November and the individual category winners will be known on 6 January: they will each win £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) will be announced on 28 January.

The shortlists in full:

2013 Costa Novel Award shortlist

Winner

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Other books on the shortlist

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2013 Costa First Novel Award shortlist

Winner

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Other books on the shortlist

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2013 Costa Biography Award shortlist

Winner

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Other books on the shortlist Template:Topten

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2013 Costa Poetry Award shortlist

Winner

Michael Symmons Roberts for Drysalter (Jonathan Cape)

Other books on the shortlist

Clive James for Dante, The Divine Comedy (Picador) Helen Mort for Division Street (Chatto & Windus) Robin Robertson for Hill of Doors (Picador)


2013 Costa Children’s Book Award shortlist

Winner

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Other books on the shortlist

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