Costa Book Award - First Novel

Awards List

2015

The Loney
(Winner)
Andrew Michael Hurley

The Girl in the Red Coat
(Nominee)
Kate Hamer

Spill Simmer Falter Wither
(Nominee)
Sara Baume

The Loney
(Nominee)
Andrew Michael Hurley

2014

Elizabeth Is Missing
(Winner)
Emma Healey

Chop Chop
(Nominee)
Simon Wroe

A Song for Issy Bradley
(Nominee)
Carys Bray

Academy Street
(Nominee)
Mary Costello

2013

Idiopathy
(Nominee)
Sam Byers

2012

The Innocents
(Winner)
Francesca Segal

2011

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
(Winner)
Christie Watson

Pao
(Nominee)
Kerry Young

2008

The Outcast
(Winner)
Sadie Jones

2007

What Was Lost
(Winner)
Catherine O'Flynn

Gifted
(Nominee)
Nikita Lalwani

A Golden Age
(Nominee)
Tahmima Anam

Mosquito
(Nominee)
Roma Tearne

2006

The Tenderness of Wolves
(Winner)
Stef Penney

Cloth Girl
(Nominee)
Marilyn Heward Mills

The Meaning of Night
(Nominee)
Michael Cox

The Amnesia Clinic
(Nominee)
James Scudamore

2005

The Harmony Silk Factory
(Winner)
Tash Aw

2004

Eve Green
(Winner)
Susan Fletcher

The Land as Viewed from the Sea
(Nominee)
Richard Collins

2003

Buddha Da
(Nominee)
Anne Donovan

An Empty Room
(Nominee)
Talitha Stevenson

An Evening of Long Goodbyes
(Nominee)
Paul Murray

2002

The Impressionist
(Nominee)
Hari Kunzru

2000

Born Free
(Nominee)
Laura J. Hird

1997

The Ventriloquist's Tale
(Winner)
Pauline Melville

1996

The Debt to Pleasure
(Winner)
John Lanchester

1994

The Longest Memory
(Winner)
Fred D'Aguiar

Award Categories

Book of the Year

Children's

First Novel

Novel

Award Years

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

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2001

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