Costa Book Awards 2012 Shortlists

COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2012 SHORTLISTS

2012 Costa Novel Award shortlist

Hilary Mantel

Bring up the Bodies Fourth Estate

Stephen May

Life! Death! Prizes! Bloomsbury

James Meek

The Heart Broke In Canongate

Joff Winterhart

Days of the Bagnold Summer Jonathan Cape

2012 Costa First Novel Award shortlist

J W Ironmonger

The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Jess Richards

Snake Ropes Sceptre

Francesca Segal

The Innocents Chatto & Windus

Benjamin Wood

The Bellwether Revivals Simon & Schuster

2012 Costa Biography Award shortlist

Artemis Cooper

Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure John Murray

Selina Guinness

The Crocodile by the Door: The Story of a House, a

Farm and a Family

Penguin Ireland

Kate Hubbard

Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household Chatto & Windus

Mary Talbot and Bryan

Talbot

Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes

Jonathan Cape

2012 Costa Poetry Award shortlist

Sean Borodale

Bee Journal Jonathan Cape

Julia Copus

The World’s Two Smallest Humans Faber and Faber

Selima Hill

People Who Like Meatballs Bloodaxe Books

Kathleen Jamie

The Overhaul Picador

2012 Costa Children’s Book Award shortlist

Sally Gardner Maggot Moon Hot Key Books

Diana Hendry

The Seeing The Bodley Head

Hayley Long

What’s Up with Jody Barton? Macmillan Children’s Books

Dave Shelton

A Boy and a Bear in a Boat David Fickling Books

Shortlist for the 2012 Costa Novel Award

(159 entries)

Judges

Sam Baker

Novelist and Editor-in-Chief, Red Magazine

Toby Clements

Book Reviewer and Author

Wendy Holden

Author