Costa Book Awards 2007

Awards

Category Shortlists

The 2008 shortlists were announced on 19th November. Click below to see what the judges thought of each of the books, and why they have been shortlisted.

Costa First Novel Award

• The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams (more...)
• The Outcast by Sadie Jones (more...)
• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (more...)
• Inside the Whale by Jennie Rooney (more...)

Costa Children's Award

• Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray (more...)
• The Carbon Diaries by Saci Lloyd (more...)
• Just Henry by Michelle Magorian (more...)
• Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine (more...)

Costa Biography Award

• Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill (more...)
• Bloomsbury Ballerina by Judith Mackrell (more...)
• If You Don't Know Me By Now: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton by Sathnam Sanghera (more...)
• Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager (more...)

Costa Novel Award

• The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (more...)
• The Other Hand by Chris Cleave (more...)
• A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres (more...)
• Trauma by Patrick McGrath (more...)

Costa Poetry Award

• For All We Know by Ciaran Carson (more...)
• The Broken Word by Adam Foulds (more...)
• Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds (more...)
• Salvation Jane by Greta Stoddart (more...)

Costa First Novel Award

• A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam (more...)
• Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (more...)
• What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn (more...)
• Mosquito by Roma Tearne (more...)

Costa Novel Award

• Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett (more...)
• Day by A.L. Kennedy (more...)
• Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson (more...)
• The Road Home by Rose Tremain (more...)

Costa Children's Book Award

• The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley (more...)
• Crusade by Elizabeth Laird (more...)
• What I Was by Meg Rosoff (more...)
• Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick (more...)

Costa Poetry Award

• The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig (more...)
• The Space of Joy by John Fuller (more...)
• Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra (more...)
• Tilt by Jean Sprackland (more...)

Costa Biography Award

• Rudolf Nureyev by Julie Kavanagh (more...)
• Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre (more...)
• Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore (more...)
• Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins (more...)