Costa Book Awards 2007

Awards

Category Shortlists

Click below to see what the judges thought of each of last year's shortlisted books, and why they were 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...)