You can now have online access to both the 2006 and 2007 Finalists
compilations. The collections have been sold in Costa outlets for £2 with all
profits going to the Costa Foundation, established to support and improve the
social and economic welfare of Costa's coffee suppliers in developing countries.
Click the titles below to read the excerpts.
2007 Finalists
* Day by A.L. Kennedy (2007 Costa Novel Award winner and
overall Costa Book of the Year)
* Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore (2007 Costa
Biography Award winner)
* What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn (2007 Costa First
Novel Award winner)
* Tilt by Jean Sprackland (2007 Costa Poetry Award winner)
* The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley (2007 Costa Children's Book
Award winner)
2006 Finalists
* Restless by William Boyd (2006 Costa Novel Award winner)
* The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (2006 Costa First
Novel Award winner and overall Costa Book of the Year)
* Keeping Mum by Brian Thompson, (2006 Costa Biography
Award winner)
* Letter to Patience by John Haynes, (2006 Costa Poetry
Award winner)
* Set in Stone by Linda Newbery (2006 Costa Children's Book
Award winner).