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).