Costa Book Awards

Key Dates

30/01/13 More on Avril Joy's Inaugural Short Story Award Win

29/01/13 BRING UP THE BODIES BY HILARY MANTEL NAMED 2012 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR

29/01/13 AVRIL JOY WINS INAUGURAL COSTA SHORT STORY AWARD

24/01/13 Costa Short Stories - Writers Announced

24/01/13 William Hill Releases Latest Odds for Costa Book of the Year...

02/01/13 Costa Book Awards 2012 Category Winners Announced

19/12/12 Costa Book Awards Final Judging Panel Announced

27/11/12 VOTING OPENS FOR THE COSTA SHORT STORY AWARD!

20/11/12 Costa Book Awards 2012 Shortlists Revealed

03/10/12 Judges Announced for 2012 Costa Book Awards

16/07/12 Costa Launches Short Story Award

24/01/12 Andrew Miller Wins 2011 Costa Book of the Year

03/01/12 Costa Book Awards 2011 Category Winners Announced

09/12/11 Final Judging Panel for Costa Book Awards 2011 Announced

15/11/11 Costa Book Awards 2011 Shortlists Announced

01/06/11 Entry Forms Available for Download

25/01/11 Jo Shapcott wins 2010 Costa book of the year

20/01/11 William Hill release latest odds for Costa book of the year

04/01/11 Costa book awards 2010 category winners announced

09/12/10 Final judging panel announced for costa book of the year 2010

16/11/10 Costa book awards 2010 shortlists announced

14/09/10 Judges announced for 2010 costa book awards

26/01/10 Christopher Reid wins 2009 Costa book of the year

04/01/10 Costa book awards 2009 category winners announced

16/12/09 Final judging panel announced for 2009 Costa book of the year

24/11/09 Costa book awards 2009 shortlists announced

16/09/09 Judges announced for 2009 Costa book awards

27/01/09 Sebastian Barry wins 2008 Costa book of the year

05/01/09 Costa book awards 2008 category winners announced

16/12/08 Final judging panel announced for 2008 Costa book of the year

18/11/08 Costa book awards 2008 shortlists announced

01/10/08 Competition to find member of public to join book prize final judging panel

10/12/07 Final judging panel announced for 2007

20/11/07 Costa book awards 2007 shortlists announced

18/09/07 Key dates for the Costa book awards 2007

07/02/07 Stef Penney wins 2006 Costa book of the year

15/01/07 Final judging panel announced for 2006 Costa book awards

09/01/07 Costa book awards 2006 category winners announced

03/01/07 Stephen King crowned the UK's favourite literary 'guilty pleasure'

28/11/06 Costa book awards 2006 shortlists announced

17/10/06 Key dates for the Costa book awards

01/06/06 Costa blends coffee and literature as new sponsor of the Whitbread book awards

25/01/06 Hilary Spurling wins 2005 Whitbread book of the year

19/01/06 William Hill releases latest odds for Whitbread book of the year 2005

04/01/06 Whitbread book awards 2005 category winners announced

11/12/05 Whitbread plc invites new sponsors for prestigious Whitbread book awards sponsorship

16/11/05 Whitbread book awards 2005 shortlists announced

07/11/05 Win tickets to the 2004 Whitbread book awards ceremony with OK! Magazine this week.

15/09/05 Judges announced for Whitbread book awards 2005

25/01/05 Levy wins 2004 Whitbread book of the year

06/01/05 2004 Whitbread book awards category winners announced

15/12/04 Hugh Grant joins final judging panel for the 2004 Whitbread book awards

10/11/04 2004 Whitbread book awards shortlists

14/10/04 Schoolchildren win chance to judge prestigious Whitbread children's book award

08/09/04 Judges announced for 2004 Whitbread book awards

24/08/04 Paperback sales of 2003 Whitbread book of the year hit the Million mark

17/08/04 Calling all young bookworms: Britain's biggest book awards needs you!

28/01/04 The curious incident of the dog in the night-time wins 2003 Whitbread book of the year

07/01/04 2003 Whitbread award winners

10/12/03 Final judges 2003

13/11/03 2003 Whitbread book awards shortlist

29/01/03 Tomalin triumphs in 2002 Whitbread book of the year

08/01/03 2002 Whitbread book awards winners

10/12/02 Ian Hislop to chair 2002 Whitbread book awards final judging panel

14/11/02 2002 Whitbread book awards shortlists

25/10/02 Dates for 2002 Whitbread book awards

23/01/02 Children's novel triumphs in 2001 Whitbread book of the year

10/01/02 Selkirk's Island favourite to win Whitbread book of the year

03/01/02 2001 Whitbread book award winners - additional information

03/01/02 2001 Whitbread book awards winners

10/12/01 Jon Snow to chair 2001 Whitbread book awards final judging panel

14/11/01 2001 Whitbread children's book of the year shortlist

14/11/01 2001 Whitbread book awards shortlists

13/11/01 2001 Whitbread children's book of the year shortlist

13/11/01 2001 Whitbread biography award shortlist

13/11/01 2001 Whitbread poetry award shortlist

13/11/01 2001 Whitbread first novel award shortlist

13/11/01 2001 Whitbread novel award shortlist

09/11/01 Enjoy reading with the Whitbread book awards 2001