Costa Book Awards 2007

Awards

Category Shortlists

Click below to see what the judges thought of each of 2009's shortlisted books, and why they have been shortlisted.

Costa First Novel Award

• The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath (more...)
• John the Revelator by Peter Murphy (more...)
• Beauty by Raphael Selbourne (more...)
• The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw (more...)

Costa Novel Award

• Family Album by Penelope Lively (more...)
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (more...)
• The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson (more...)
• Brooklyn by Colm Toibin (more...)

Costa Biography Award

• The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo (more...)
• The Music Room by William Fiennes (more...)
• Coda by Simon Gray (more...)
• Dancing to the Precipice by Caroline Moorehead (more...)

Costa Poetry Award

• Angels Over Elsinore by Clive James (more...)
• One Eye'd Leigh by Katharine Kilalea (more...)
• Darwin: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel (more...)
• A Scattering by Christopher Reid (more...)

Costa Children's Award

• Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd (more...)
• Troubadour by Mary Hoffman (more...)
• The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness (more...)
• Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera (more...)