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11/20/2007
Costa Book Awards 2007 Shortlists announced

COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2007 SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED

  • Emigrant writers dominate all-female First Novel category shortlist
  • A cricketer, dancer, dictator and spy go head to head in the Biography category
  • Debut poet, Daljit Nagra, alongside Jean Sprackland, John Fuller and Ian Duhig in the Poetry category
  • Record number of entries in the Novel and Children's categories

London, 19.30pm Tuesday 20th November 2007: Costa, the UK's fastest-growing coffee shop chain, today announces the shortlists for the 2007 Costa Book Awards, in the First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book Award categories. 

The Costa Book Awards recognise the most enjoyable books of the last year by writers based in the UK and Ireland. 

Originally established in 1971 by Whitbread Plc, Costa, the UK's fastest-growing coffee shop chain, announced its takeover of the sponsorship of the UK's most prestigious book prize in 2006.

This year's Costa Book Awards attracted 553 entries and included a record number of submissions in both the Novel and Children's Book Award categories, with 150 and 138 entries respectively. Judges on this year's panels (three per category) included actress and writer Helen Lederer; author and lyricist Polly Samson; writer and columnist, Danny Danziger; and broadcaster and journalist Julia Somerville.

Winners in the five categories, who each receive ?5,000, will be announced on Thursday 3rd January 2008.  The overall winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2007 will receive ?25,000 and will be selected and announced at the Costa Book Awards ceremony in central London on Tuesday 22nd January 2008.

Since the introduction of the Book of the Year award in 1985, it has been won seven times by a novel, four times by a first novel, five times by a biography, five times by a collection of poetry and once by a children's book.  The 2006 Costa Book of the Year was won by Stef Penney for The Tenderness of Wolves.

To be eligible for the 2007 Costa Book Awards, books must have been first published in the UK or Ireland between 1 November 2006 and 31 October 2007.

Full details of the shortlists follow. 

For additional information please visit http://www.costabookawards.com/.

COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2007 SHORTLISTS

2007 Costa Novel Award shortlist

Neil Bartlett for Skin Lane (Serpent's Tail)

A.L. Kennedy for Day (Jonathan Cape)

Rupert Thomson for Death of a Murderer (Bloomsbury)

Rose Tremain for The Road Home (Chatto & Windus)

2007 Costa First Novel Award shortlist

Tahmima Anam for A Golden Age (John Murray)

Catherine O'Flynn for What Was Lost (Tindal Street Press)

Nikita Lalwani for Gifted (Viking)

Roma Tearne for Mosquito (HarperPress)

2007 Costa Biography Award shortlist

Julie Kavanagh for Rudolf Nureyev (Fig Tree)

Ben Macintyre for Agent ZigZag (Bloomsbury)

Simon Sebag Montefiore for Young Stalin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Michael Simkins for Fatty Batter (Ebury Press)

2007 Costa Poetry Award shortlist

Ian Duhig for The Speed of Dark (Picador)

John Fuller for The Space of Joy (Chatto & Windus)

Daljit Nagra for Look We Have Coming to Dover! (Faber and Faber)

Jean Sprackland for Tilt (Cape Poetry)

2007 Costa Children's Book Award shortlist

Ann Kelley for The Bower Bird (Luath Press Limited)

Elizabeth Laird for Crusade (Macmillan Children's Books)

Meg Rosoff for What I Was (Puffin Books)

Marcus Sedgwick for Blood Red Snow White (Orion Children's Books)

Shortlist for the 2007 Costa Novel Award

(150 entries)

Judges

Sam Leith  Literary Editor, Daily Telegraph

Nigel Rees Writer and broadcaster

Polly Samson  Author and Lyricist

  

  

Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett (Serpent's Tail)

At 47, Mr. F's working life on London's Skin Lane is one governed by calm, precision and routine. So when he starts to have frightening, recurring nightmares, he does his best to ignore them; after all, he's a perfectly ordinary middle-aged man.  As London's crooked backstreets begin to swelter in the long, hot summer of 1967, Mr. F's nightmare becomes an obsession. A chance encounter adds a face to the body that nightly haunts him, and the torments of his sweat-drenched nights lead him deeper into a terrifying labyrinth of rage, desire and shame.
Neil Bartlett works both as a writer and a theatre director.  He is the author of Who Was That Man?, a ground breaking study of Oscar Wilde, and of the novels Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall and Mr Clive and Mr Page, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award.

Judges: "A cunningly narrated story in a totally original milieu.  A tale of the unexpected."

Day by A.L. Kennedy (Jonathan Cape)

Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Now, in 1949, Alfred is winding back time to see where he lost himself. He has taken the role of an extra in a POW film. Shipped out to Germany and an ersatz camp, he picks his way through the clich?s that will become all that's left of his war and begins to do what he's never dared - to remember. He is looking for some semblance of hope: trying to move forward by going back.

A.L. Kennedy is a novelist and stand-up comedian.  She has published four previous novels, two books of non-fiction, and three collections of short stories, most recently Indelible Acts. She has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a number of prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. She lives in Glasgow.

Judges: "An exceptional feat of research and an astonishing effort of the imagination, A.L. Kennedy's Day is both terrifying and hilarious.  Alfred Day's war stays with the reader as it stays with him."

  

Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson (Bloomsbury)

Towards the end of November 2002, Billy Tyler, a seasoned police constable in his mid-forties, is summoned to the mortuary of a hospital in Suffolk. For the next twelve hours, from seven in the evening till seven in the morning, he is responsible for guarding the body of the notorious child-killer, Myra Hindley. Billy's approach is utterly professional, but as the night wears on, in the eerie silence of the hospital, the dead woman's presence begins to assert itself, and Billy's own problems and anxieties gradually acquire a new and unexpected significance.

Rupert Thomson is the author of seven previous novels. His books have been shortlisted for awards including the Writer's Guild Fiction Prize for Air and Fire and the Guardian Prize for Fiction.

Judges: "An exquisitely written ghost story - morally subtle, psychologically involving and exactly crafted."

The Road Home by Rose Tremain (Chatto & Windus)

Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Lev begins with no job, little money and few words of English. He has only his memories, his hopes and a flair for preparing food. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved daughter and his outrageous friend Rudi. Now, in front of Lev, lies the deep strangeness of the British: their hostile streets, their clannish pubs, their obsession with celebrity, and their lonely flats. London holds out the alluring possibilities of friendship, sex, money and a new career; but, more than this, of human understanding and a sense of belonging.

Rose Tremain is a writer of novels, short stories and screenplays for TV. Her books have been translated into many languages, and have won prizes including the Whitbread Novel Award and the Sunday Express Book of the Year. Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a film; The Colour was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Three of her novels are currently in development as films. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer Richard Holmes.

  

Judges: "Wise, timely and emotionally satisfying, Rose Tremain's characters are immediately recognisable as is her London seen through the eyes of her Eastern European migrant."

 

Shortlist for the 2007 Costa First Novel Award

(80 entries)

Judges

Nic Bottomley  General Manager of Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights

Helen Lederer     Actress and Writer

Sebastian Shakespeare     Evening Standard columnist and diary editor

A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam (John Murray)

As Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daughter. In the garden of the house she has built, her roses are blooming; her children are almost grown-up; and beyond their doorstep, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections. Change is in the air. But none of the guests at Rehana's party can foresee what will happen in the days and months that follow. For this is East Pakistan in 1971, a country on the brink of war, and this family's life is about to change forever. As she struggles to keep her family safe, Rehana will find herself faced with a heartbreaking dilemma.

Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1975 and grew up in Paris, New York City, and Bangkok. Her grandfather was a famous political satirist whose books are part of the national curriculum in Bangladesh, and her father, a controversial journalist, edits Bangladesh's largest English-language daily newspaper. Tahmima has a PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University and in 2005, completed an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, London. She lives in London and Bangladesh.

Judges: "A very accomplished, mature narrative voice set against the backdrop of the Bangladeshi civil war - a moving and original perspective on a little known slice of history with a highly affecting and brave ending."

What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn (Tindal Street Press)

A lost little girl with her notebook and toy monkey appears on the CCTV screens of the Green Oaks shopping centre, evoking memories of junior detective, Kate Meaney, missing for 20 years. Kurt, a security guard with a sleep disorder and Lisa, a disenchanted deputy manager at Your Music, follow her through the centre's endless corridors - welcome relief from customers, colleagues and the Green Oaks mystery shopper. But, as this after-hours friendship grows in intensity, it brings new loss and new longing to light.

Catherine O'Flynn was born in Birmingham in 1970, where she grew up in and around her parents' sweet shop. She has worked as a teacher, a web editor, a mystery customer and a postwoman - and her first novel draws on her experience of working in record stores. After a few years in Barcelona, she now lives in Birmingham.

Judges: "Hugely compelling and inventive, it pulls the rug from under your feet from the very first page - O'Flynn reveals her clues tantalisingly in this poignant story of love and loss."

Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking)

At fourteen, Rumi is firmly set on the path of a gifted child, speeding headlong towards Oxford University. As her father sees it, discipline is everything if the family has any hope of making its mark on its adoptive country.  However, as Rumi gets older and the family's stark isolation intensifies, numbers start to lose their magic for the young teenager: she abandons the rigid timetable of her afternoons to seek out friendship and replaces equations with rampant spice abuse.  As her longing for love and her parents' will to succeed deepen, so too does the rift between generations.  

Nikita Lalwani was born in Kota, Rajasthan in 1973.  A year later, her family relocated to Wales and Nikita was raised in Cardiff, attending the Welsh National Eisteddfodd festival and the Welsh Puja Committee Diwali Festival. She now lives in London.

Judges: "This gripping coming-of-age story dealing with cross-cultural issues in modern Britain is moving, surprising and utterly enjoyable."

Mosquito by Roma Tearne (HarperPress)

When Theo returns to his native Sri Lanka after his wife's death, he hopes to escape his loss amidst the lush landscape of his increasingly war-torn country.  But as he gives himself up to life in his beautiful, tortured land, he finds himself slipping into friendship with an artistic young girl, Nulani - a friendship that blossoms into love.  Under the threat of civil war, as the quiet coastal town fills with whispers and suspicions, their affair offers a glimmer of hope to a country on the brink of destruction.  But all too soon, the violence which has cast an ominous shadow over their love explodes. No one, it seems, is safe and ultimately, each of them will be tested in the most terrible ways.

Roma Tearne fled Sri Lanka when she was ten, travelling to Britain by boat, where she has spent most of her life. She gained her Master's degree at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, and was Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. She is now a successful visual artist, currently on a three-year fellowship at Oxford Brookes University. The pictures Nulani paints in Mosquito were first painted by Roma before she wrote them down. Roma Tearne lives in Oxford.

Judges: "A compelling story set in war torn Sri Lanka - poignant, exquisitely told and a captivating view of unusual love and survival."

Shortlist for the 2007 Costa Biography Award

(113 entries)

Judges

Danny Danziger     Writer and Columnist

Emma Jepson         Non-Fiction Buyer, Borders

Stephanie Merritt   Journalist and novelist

Rudolf Nureyev by Julie Kavanagh (Fig Tree)

Ballet's first pop icon, Rudolf Nureyev, revolutionised an old artform, bringing a new young audience to opera houses and sparking Rudimania across the globe.  From his birth on a train in Siberia at the height of Stalin's terrors, Nureyev's life was extraordinary. This definitive biography of one of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, ten years in the making, draws on previously unseen letters, diaries and home-movie footage to give an intimate, revealing and dramatic picture of this dazzling and complex figure.

Julie Kavanagh trained as a dancer at the Royal Ballet School, and is the author of Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton. She has worked as ballet critic of The Spectator; Arts Editor of Harpers & Queen, and London Editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. She is married to the ex-Royal Ballet dancer, now dance film-maker, Ross MacGibbon, and has two sons.

Judges: "A consummate portrait of an artist who was not always likeable, but consistently fascinating."

Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre (Bloomsbury)

Agent Zigzag is the untold story of Britain's most extraordinary wartime double agent; Eddie Chapman. Chapman was a dashing, louche, courageous and unpredictable man whose talents led to a single end: breaking the rules. This was a man who courted contradictions as much as he courted adventure. Inside the traitor was a hero; inside the villain, a man of conscience; the problem for Chapman, his spymasters and his many lovers, was to know where one ended and the other began.

Ben Macintyre is Writer at Large for The Times. He is the author of Josiah the Great: The True Story of the Man Who Would Be King, A Foreign Field, Forgotten Fatherland, and The Napoleon of Crime.

Judges: "Ben Macintyre uses his exceptional writing skill to make this extraordinary biography, of double - maybe triple - agent Eddie Chapman, read like a thriller."

  

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Stalin, like Hitler, remains the personification of evil but also one of the creators of today's world.  Based on massive research and astonishing new evidence in archives from Moscow to Georgia, Young Stalin is a chronicle of the Revolution, a pre-history of the USSR and an intimate biography unveiling the shadowy, adventurous journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who was to become the Red Tsar.

Simon Sebag Montefiore is a historian and writer. Young Stalin is the prequel and companion to Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar which won the History Book of the Year Prize at the 2004 British Book Awards. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, novelist, and television presenter, Montefiore lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children.

Judges: ""Incredible scholarship, lightly worn.  This biography opens up the previously hidden secrets of Stalin's youth.  An amazing story, exceptionally well told."

Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins (Ebury Press)

Fatty Batter is the story of one man's lifelong obsession with cricket.  From his earliest awkward days as a fat schoolboy, to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates, cricket has offered Michael Simkins a shelter from life's irksome realities and a place in which to quietly dream.  That place is a peculiarly English arcadia of occasional wondrous beauty, forests of comforting statistics and the endless life-affirming rituals of defeat, humiliation and disappointment - the perfect practice net for life.

Michael Simkins was born in Brighton in 1959. He trained at RADA and has appeared in more than 70 plays. He has also made many film and TV appearances including Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. His first book, What's My Motivation?, won widespread critical acclaim and was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Michael lives with his wife, actress Julia Deakin, in north-west London, and still plays cricket all over the Southern Counties.

Judges: "The autobiography of an author in love with cricket and sweets.  The reader doesn't need knowledge of either to enjoy this enchanting gem of a book."

Shortlist for the 2007 Costa Poetry Award

(72 entries)

  

Judges

Sion Hamilton         Ground Floor Manager, Foyles

Vicki Feaver          Poet and painter

Adam Phillips     Psychoanalyst and writer

  

The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig (Picador)

The Speed of Dark is structured around Duhig's reworking of the text of Le Roman de Fauvel, a medieval satire that railed against the corruption of the twelfth-century French court and Church. In Duhig's version however, the tale of the power-mad horse-king Fauvel gains a terrifying and contemporary relevance, and is identified with more recent crusades, crazed ambitions and insatiable greeds.

Ian Duhig worked with homeless people for fifteen years in England and Northern Ireland before becoming a writer and teacher of Creative Writing.  He has held various Fellowships, most recently as 2003 International Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin.  He has won the National Poetry Competition twice, the Forward Tolman Cunard Best Single Poem Prize, and received an Arts Council Writers' Award and a Cholmondeley Award.

Judges: "Witty, complex poems that marry the medieval and contemporary worlds."

The Space of Joy by John Fuller (Chatto & Windus)

The Space of Joy is a sequence of poems that recounts the endless desire for love - and the failures and compromises which accompany that desire - in a number of writers and musicians who fatally prioritise their art. If there is any resolution in this sequence, it is the conviction that while ?poetry may be the only heaven we have', it is life itself that must create the ?space of joy' which art wishes to celebrate.

Now in his sixties, John Fuller is an acclaimed poet, novelist and academic. He has written fifteen collections of poetry of which the last, Ghosts, was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Poetry Award. He has recently retired as a Fellow of Magdalen College but continues to live in Oxford.

Judges: "Formally accomplished and moving in its precision."

Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra (Faber and Faber)

Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's ?land of dreams', Look We Have Coming to Dover! explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain.  Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures a jazzed hybrid language to tell stories of aspiration, assimilation, alienation and love, from a stowaway's first footprint on Dover Beach to the disenchantment of subsequent generations.

Daljit Nagra was born and raised in West London, then Sheffield, and currently lives in Willesden where he works in a secondary school. His first collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover!, won the 2007 Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

Judges: "Verbally inventive, dazzling in its scope."

Tilt by Jean Sprackland (Cape Poetry)

Jean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in freefall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and hurricane; trains stand still, zoos are abandoned, migrating birds lose their way - all surfaces are unreliable, all territories unmapped. These poems explore the ambivalence and dark unease of slippage and collapse, but also carry a powerful sense of the miraculous made manifest amongst the ordinary.

Jean Sprackland's first collection of poetry, Tattoos for Mothers Day, was shortlisted for the Forward First Book Award in 1999. Her second collection, Hard Water, was published by Cape in 2003 and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award and the Whitbread Poetry Award. In 2004, Jean Sprackland was named by the Poetry Book Society as one of the ?Next Generation' poets.

Judges: "Taut, powerful poems which balance the anxieties of experience against the possibility of the miraculous."

Shortlist for the 2007 Costa Children's Book Award

(138 entries)

Judges

David Almond          Author

Marilyn Brocklehurst       Proprietor, Norfolk Children's Book Centre

Julia Somerville             Broadcaster and journalist

Isha Amin (Young Judge)         First News competition winner

Amar Mann (Young Judge)         First News competition winner'

  

  

The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley (Luath Press Limited)

Gussie lives in Cornwall and, like most twelve-year-olds, is quickly growing up.  She is also awaiting news of a heart transplant operation.  When Gussie moves from the coast to a new house in town, she rebels, discovers her ancestors and an interest in photography, falls in love and has parent troubles - all whilst experiencing general adolescent angst and trying not to wait for what might never happen. 

Ann Kelley is a photographer and prize-winning poet.  She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St Ives families and an audio book of cat stories.  She lives with her second husband and several cats in Cornwall.

Judges: "The author as artist evokes people and places with delicacy, humour and truth - a novel of outstanding beauty."

Crusade by Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan Children's Books)

When Adam's mother dies unconfessed, he pledges to save her soul with dust from the Holy Land. Employed as a dog-boy for the local knight, Adam grabs the chance to join the Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem. He burns with determination to strike down the infidel enemy . . .

Salim, a merchant's son, is leading an uneventful life in the port of Acre - until news arrives that a Crusader attack is imminent. To keep Salim safe, his father buys him an apprenticeship with an esteemed, travelling Jewish doctor. But Salim's employment leads him to the heart of Sultan Saladin's camp - and into battle against the barbaric and unholy invaders . . .

Elizabeth Laird was born in Wellington, New Zealand, but is of Scottish descent and was educated at Croydon High School. Elizabeth has spent many years living and working abroad, including long spells in Lebanon, Ethiopia and India.  She has been nominated four times for the Carnegie Medal and has won both the Nestl? Smarties Prize and the Children's Book Award. She now lives in Richmond with her husband, David McDowall, a writer on Middle Eastern Affairs.

Judges: "A truly believable voice and wonderfully written story - we couldn't put down this historical page turner."

What I Was by Meg Rosoff (Puffin Books)

"I'd been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third.  But without St Oswald's, I would not have discovered the fisherman's hut with its roaring fire, its striped blankets and its sea monster stew.  Without St Oswald's, I would not have met the boy with the beautiful eyes, the flickering half-smile and no past.  Without St Oswald's, I wouldn't have met Finn. And without Finn, there would be no story. Shall we begin?"

Meg Rosoff had three or four careers in publishing and advertising before writing her first novel, How I Live Now. She moved from New York to London in 1989, where she currently lives with her husband and daughter. Her first novel, How I Live Now, was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread Children's Book Award and won the Guardian and Branford Boase Awards. Just in Case won the Carnegie Medal and was shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Children's Book Award. 

Judges: "Its central character caught between childhood and adulthood, this poignant and affecting book, tinged with melancholy, is both haunting and elegiac."

Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick (Orion Children's Books)

Beyond the vast plains, deep in the snowy forest, the great bear that is Russia wakes from a long sleep and marches to St Petersburg to claim its birthright.  Its awakening will mark the end for the Romanovs, and herald an era that will change the world.  Another man played a part in it all.  His name was Arthur Ransome, a journalist and writer who left his English home, his wife and daughter, and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman, Evgenia.  This is his story.

Marcus Sedgwick was born in Preston, Kent in 1968, training as a teacher before becoming a children's bookseller in 1991.He now combines his career as an author with that of a sales manager for a children's publishing company. Marcus has been writing since 1994, winning the Branford Boase award for his first title Floodland.  In his spare time, Marcus is a drummer and currently plays the part of Basil Exposition from behind the kit in The International Band of Mystery: an Austin Powers tribute band.  Marcus lives in Sussex with his family.

Judges: "A colourful cast of characters takes the reader on a fascinating journey into world history.  Ambitious, unusual, informative and powerfully written."

-ENDS-

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Costa Book Awards Press and Publicity

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Email:  amanda@amandajohnsonpr.com

Notes for Editors:

  • The Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were established in 1971 to encourage, promote and celebrate the best contemporary British writing.
  • The total prize fund for the Costa Book Awards stands at ?50,000. The award winners from the five categories - Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book - each receive ?5,000.
  • The overall Costa Book of the Year is selected from the five category Award winners with the winner receiving a further ?25,000. The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony at the Intercontinental Hotel, central London on 22nd January, 2008.
  • To be eligible for the 2007 awards, books must have been first published in the UK or Ireland between 1 November 2006 and 31 October 2007.
  • The 2006 winner of the Costa Book of the Year was Stef Penney for The Tenderness of Wolves (Quercus).

About Costa:

  • Costa is officially the largest and fastest-growing coffee shop brand in the UK.
  • Costa was founded by Italian brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa in 1971. With 650 stores in the UK and over 200 internationally, Costa has enjoyed a remarkable period of growth since it opened its first store. It now operates in 22 countries.
  • Costa's in-store baristas are all coached in the art of coffee making at the company's unique Costa Coffee Academy based at its own roastery in Lambeth, London.
  • Costa won the 2007 award for Best International Franchise Operator.
  • Costa is part of the Whitbread family of brands.

Amanda Johnson PR

Highly Commended in the PR Week Awards Freelance Achievement of the Year 2007 Award

Email: amanda@amandajohnsonpr.com

Tel: (0) 7715 922 180

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