The 2007 Costa Book of the Year Category Shortlists were announced in November 2007. 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...)