BOOK AWARDS
Costa Book Awards 2008 (formerly Whitbread Prizes)
http://www.costabookawards.com
Established by Whitbread PLC — one of the UK's leading leisure companies — in 1971, the Whitbread Book Awards 'celebrate the most enjoyable British writing of the last year'.
The five category short lists are given below. The overall winner of the £25,000 Costa Book of the Year will be announced in January 2007 at an awards ceremony to be held in London.
Book of the Year Winner — announced January 2009
Category Winners Announced — announced January 2008
| First Novel | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| The Outcast | Sadie Jones | Chatto & Windus | 9780701181758 |
| Novel | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| The Secret Scripture | Sebastian Barry | Faber & Faber | 9780571215287 |
| Biography | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Somewhere Towards the End | Diana Athill | Granta Books | 9781862079847 |
| Poetry | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| The Broken Word | Adam Foulds | Jonathan Cape | 9780224084444 |
Shortlists (announced mid-November)
| First Novel | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| The Behaviour of Moths | Poppy Adams | Little Brown | 9781844084869 |
| The Outcast | Sadie Jones | Chatto & Windus | 9780701181758 |
| Inside the Whale | Jennie Rooney | Chatto & Windus | 9780701182748 |
| Child 44 | Tom Rob Smith | Simon & Schuster | 9781847371263 |
| Novel | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| The Secret Scripture | Sebastian Barry | Faber & Faber | 9780571215287 |
| The Other Hand | Chris Cleave | Sceptre | 9780340963401 |
| A Partisan's Daughter | Louis de Bernieres | Harvill Secker | 9781846551413 |
| Trauma | Patrick McGrath | Bloomsbury | 9780747596646 |
| Biography | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Somewhere Towards the End | Diana Athill | Granta Books | 9781862079847 |
| The Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes | Judith Mackrell | Weidenfeld & Nicholson | 9780297849087 |
| If You Don't Know Me By Now: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton | Sathnam Sanghera | Viking | 9780670916702 |
| Chagall: Love and Exile |
Jackie Wullschlager | Allen Lane | 9780713996524 |
| Poetry | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| For All We Know | Ciaran Carson | Gallery Books | 9781852354398 |
| The Broken Word | Adam Foulds | Jonathan Cape | 9780224084444 |
| Sunday at the Skin Launderette | Kathryn Simmonds | Seren | 9781854114617 |
| Salvation Jane | Greta Stoddart | Anvil Poetry Press | 9780856464119 |
