Costa Book Awards 2010 Shortlists Announced

Costa Book Awards 2010 Shortlists Announced

Category Shortlists:

Costa First Novel Award

•Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai
•Coconut Unlimited by Nikesh Shukla
•The Temple-Goers by Aatish Taseer
•Not Quite White by Simon Thirsk
 
Costa Novel Award
 
•Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty
•The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale
•The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
•Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
 
Costa Biography Award
 
•How to Live A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell 
•My Father's Fortune by Michael Frayn 
•The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
 
Costa Poetry Award
 
•Standard Midland by Roy Fisher
•The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson
•Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
•New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts
Costa Children's Book Award

•Flyaway by Lucy Christopher
•Annexed by Sharon Dogar
•Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud 
•Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace

Costa Book Awards