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The category shortlists were announced on 17 November and the individual category winners will be announced on 4 January: they each win £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) will be announced on 26 January 2016.
'''Novel Award'''
{{topten
|title=A God in Ruins
|author=Kate Atkinson
|rating=
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618700</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=The Green Road
|author=Anne enright
|rating=
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089064</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=A Place Called Winter
|author=Patrick Gale
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= In the early years of the 20th Century, Harry Cane is a man bound by duty and the constraints of society. Exiled to Canada, he finds himself amongst the barren landscapes and harsh winters, and encounters a happiness that is only threatened by the rapidly approaching war, and the machinations of an evil man. In his first real foray into historical fiction, Gale uses the Canadian plains as the backdrop to a stunning new novel. The characters leap off the page and dive well into the mind, making this not only on a par with his contemporary novels, but easily one of his finest.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205294</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=At Hawthorn Time
|author=Melissa Harrison
|rating=
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140885905X</amazonuk>
}}
'''First Novel Award'''
{{topten
|title=Spill Simmer Falter Wither
|author=Sara Baume
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Every Tuesday he goes into town. This particular Tuesday he sees an advert for a rescue dog that's been badly treated by its previous owner. Somewhere the ad strikes a resonance and he adopts the dog, calling it Oneeye (yes, one word, just like that). Gradually over shared meals a friendship grows and develops over the seasons as the spill of spring turns to summer's simmer, through the falter of autumn and on to withering winter.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592746</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=The Girl in the Red Coat
|author=Kate Hamer
|rating=
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313248</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=Things We Have in Common
|author=Tasha Kavanagh
|rating=
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782115943</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=The Loney
|author=Andrew Michael Hurley
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's always a privilege when you're given an advance reading copy of something – and a real 'block' when you read the small print that says 'not for resale or quotation'. Fair comment on the resale bit, but when you get something as brilliant as ''The Loney'' being required not to quote is just plain unfair.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619823</amazonuk>
}}
'''Biography Award'''
{{topten
|title=The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland
|author=Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
|rating=
|genre=Biography
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558611</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=The House by the Lake
|author=Thomas Harding
|rating=
|genre=Biography
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=John Aubrey: My Own Life
|author=Ruth Scurr
|rating=
|genre=Biography
|summary=|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701179074</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
|author=Andrea Wulf
|rating=
|genre=Biography
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>
}}
'''Poetry Award'''
{{amazonurl|isbn=0224102133|title=Physical by Andrew McMillan}}
{{amazonurl|isbn=1906188157|title=The Observances by Kate Miller}}
{{amazonurl|isbn=0571310893|title=40 Sonnets by Don Paterson}}
{{amazonurl|isbn=0224097296|title=Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson}}
'''Children's Book Award'''
{{topten
|title=Sophie Someone
|author=Hayley Long
|rating=
|genre=Teens
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404803</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=The Lie Tree
|author=Frances Hardinge
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Fans of Frances Hardinge will be familiar with the eerie, unreal atmosphere of her books. Mysteries lurk in the shadows, perplexing and sometimes menacing her characters, and the strange and the banal jostle each other for space on the page. A world both familiar and outlandish is offered to us, where once again a fallible but endearing heroine battles forces which threaten to overwhelm her at every turn.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144726410X</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=An Island of Our Own
|author=Sally Nicholls
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Holly. She lives, with her older brother and, er, shall we say demanding younger brother, in a flat above a London chippy. That's right – no parents around, as all three are orphans. Older brother Jonathan sacrificed uni to be their legal guardian, so is ostensibly their carer as well as sibling, which means that welfare and what he earns being a grease monkey in a corner café is all they live on. Times, therefore, are hard. But twelve year old Holly does have a straw to clutch on to – their eccentric aunt may have bequeathed them her antique jewellery collection. But what is going to make that a search for one exact straw in a haystack is that nobody knows where it may be…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124331</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=Jessica's Ghost
|author=Andrew Norriss
|rating=
|genre=Teens
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200336</amazonuk>
}}
{{commenthead}}
[[Category:Literary Fiction|*Costa Book Awards 2015]]
[[Category:Lists]]
The category shortlists were announced on 17 November and the individual category winners will be announced on 4 January: they each win £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) will be announced on 26 January 2016.
'''Novel Award'''
{{topten
|title=A God in Ruins
|author=Kate Atkinson
|rating=
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618700</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=The Green Road
|author=Anne enright
|rating=
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089064</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=A Place Called Winter
|author=Patrick Gale
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= In the early years of the 20th Century, Harry Cane is a man bound by duty and the constraints of society. Exiled to Canada, he finds himself amongst the barren landscapes and harsh winters, and encounters a happiness that is only threatened by the rapidly approaching war, and the machinations of an evil man. In his first real foray into historical fiction, Gale uses the Canadian plains as the backdrop to a stunning new novel. The characters leap off the page and dive well into the mind, making this not only on a par with his contemporary novels, but easily one of his finest.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205294</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=At Hawthorn Time
|author=Melissa Harrison
|rating=
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140885905X</amazonuk>
}}
'''First Novel Award'''
{{topten
|title=Spill Simmer Falter Wither
|author=Sara Baume
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Every Tuesday he goes into town. This particular Tuesday he sees an advert for a rescue dog that's been badly treated by its previous owner. Somewhere the ad strikes a resonance and he adopts the dog, calling it Oneeye (yes, one word, just like that). Gradually over shared meals a friendship grows and develops over the seasons as the spill of spring turns to summer's simmer, through the falter of autumn and on to withering winter.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592746</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=The Girl in the Red Coat
|author=Kate Hamer
|rating=
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313248</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=Things We Have in Common
|author=Tasha Kavanagh
|rating=
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782115943</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=The Loney
|author=Andrew Michael Hurley
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's always a privilege when you're given an advance reading copy of something – and a real 'block' when you read the small print that says 'not for resale or quotation'. Fair comment on the resale bit, but when you get something as brilliant as ''The Loney'' being required not to quote is just plain unfair.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619823</amazonuk>
}}
'''Biography Award'''
{{topten
|title=The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland
|author=Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
|rating=
|genre=Biography
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558611</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=The House by the Lake
|author=Thomas Harding
|rating=
|genre=Biography
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=John Aubrey: My Own Life
|author=Ruth Scurr
|rating=
|genre=Biography
|summary=|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701179074</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
|author=Andrea Wulf
|rating=
|genre=Biography
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>
}}
'''Poetry Award'''
{{amazonurl|isbn=0224102133|title=Physical by Andrew McMillan}}
{{amazonurl|isbn=1906188157|title=The Observances by Kate Miller}}
{{amazonurl|isbn=0571310893|title=40 Sonnets by Don Paterson}}
{{amazonurl|isbn=0224097296|title=Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson}}
'''Children's Book Award'''
{{topten
|title=Sophie Someone
|author=Hayley Long
|rating=
|genre=Teens
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404803</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=The Lie Tree
|author=Frances Hardinge
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Fans of Frances Hardinge will be familiar with the eerie, unreal atmosphere of her books. Mysteries lurk in the shadows, perplexing and sometimes menacing her characters, and the strange and the banal jostle each other for space on the page. A world both familiar and outlandish is offered to us, where once again a fallible but endearing heroine battles forces which threaten to overwhelm her at every turn.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144726410X</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=An Island of Our Own
|author=Sally Nicholls
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Holly. She lives, with her older brother and, er, shall we say demanding younger brother, in a flat above a London chippy. That's right – no parents around, as all three are orphans. Older brother Jonathan sacrificed uni to be their legal guardian, so is ostensibly their carer as well as sibling, which means that welfare and what he earns being a grease monkey in a corner café is all they live on. Times, therefore, are hard. But twelve year old Holly does have a straw to clutch on to – their eccentric aunt may have bequeathed them her antique jewellery collection. But what is going to make that a search for one exact straw in a haystack is that nobody knows where it may be…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124331</amazonuk>
}}
{{topten
|title=Jessica's Ghost
|author=Andrew Norriss
|rating=
|genre=Teens
|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200336</amazonuk>
}}
{{commenthead}}
[[Category:Literary Fiction|*Costa Book Awards 2015]]
[[Category:Lists]]