2015 Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards (before 2006 known as the Whitbread Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 2015.

The shortlist was announced c. 17 November 2015.^[1] The category winners were announced c. 4 January 2016, and the overall winner was announced on 26 January 2016.^[2]^[3]

Book of the Year

Winner: Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree^[3]

Children's Book

Winner: Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

Shortlist:

Hayley Long, Sophie Someone
Sally Nicholls, An Island of Our Own
Andrew Norriss, Jessica's Ghost

First Novel

Winner: Andrew Michael Hurley, The Loney

Shortlist:

Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Kate Hamer, The Girl in the Red Coat
Tasha Kavanagh, Things We Have in Common

Novel

Winner: Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

Shortlist:

Anne Enright, The Green Road
Patrick Gale, A Place Called Winter
Melissa Harrison, At Hawthorn Time

Biography

Winner: Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Lost Hero of Science

Shortlist:

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
Thomas Harding, The House by the Lake
Ruth Scurr, John Aubrey: My Own Life

Poetry

Winner: Don Paterson, 40 Sonnets

Shortlist:

Andrew McMillan, Physical
Kate Miller, The Observances
Neil Rollinson, Talking Dead

Short Story

Winner: TBD
Second: TBD
Third: TBD

References

↑ Drabble, Emily (17 November 2015). "The Costa Children's book award shortlist 2015 announced". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
↑ Drabble, Emily (4 January 2016). "Frances Hardinge scoops the Costa children's book award 2015 with The Lie Tree". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
1 2 Brown, Mark (26 January 2016). "Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree wins Costa book of the year 2015". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 January 2016.

Shortlist: "Shortlist for the 2015 Costa Novel Award" (PDF). Costa Coffee. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
Category winners: "2015 Costa Category Award Winners" (PDF). Costa Coffee. Retrieved 5 January 2016.

Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards)

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