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| + | |author=Nathan Filer | ||
| + | |title=The Shock of the Fall | ||
| + | |rating=5 | ||
| + | |genre=Literary Fiction | ||
| + | |summary=Matthew has a story to tell us. It begins in his childhood and on a particular holiday when he encountered a girl called Annabelle who was burying her doll, but the story isn't about Annabelle, it's initially about Simon, Matthew's older brother and we know what's going to happen straight away: | ||
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| + | 'I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon. I think you're going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he'll be dead. And he was never the same after that.' | ||
| + | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007491433</amazonuk> | ||
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The shortlists in full: | The shortlists in full: | ||
Revision as of 08:22, 29 January 2014
The category shortlists were announced on 27 November and the individual category winners on 6 January: they each won £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) was announced on 28 January.
Winner
The shortlists in full:
2013 Costa Novel Award shortlist
Winner
Other books on the shortlist
2013 Costa First Novel Award shortlist
Winner
Other books on the shortlist
2013 Costa Biography Award shortlist
Winner
Other books on the shortlist Template:Topten
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
Other books on the shortlist
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