Costa Book Awards 2015
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.
Overall Winner
Novel Award
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Other Books on the Shortlist
At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison
First Novel Award
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Other Books on the Shortlist
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
Biography Award
Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
John Aubrey, the seventeenth-century antiquary, writer and archaeologist, occupies a peculiar, even unique place in English literature. When he died, the work for which he is most famous, 'Brief Lives', was a disorganised collection of manuscripts which remained unpublished for over a century. Only in the last hundred years or so has be become more widely recognised as an interesting character and perceptive commentator on society, scholarship and on his contemporaries during the post-restoration era. Full review...
Poetry Award
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Other Books on the Shortlist
The Observances by Kate Miller
Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson
Children's Book Award
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Other Books on the Shortlist
Jessica's Ghost by Andrew Norriss
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