Tuesday 20 November 2012

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

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