Sebastian Barry becomes the first novelist to win the prestigious Costa Book of the Year prize twice. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sebastian Barry, who has won the Costa Book of the Year for a second time, tells the BBC that he dedicated the prize to his son, but reveals his children don't read his books. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The dominance of three honours in the UK can be prohibitively expensive for small publishers, and end up discouraging risk-taking on ‘difficult’ authorsCutting-edge British literary fiction risks being undermined by its growing reliance on a handful of powerful book prizes, a leading literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of Frances Hardinge’s YA novel The Lie Tree (Macmillan Children’s Books) have increased 353% in volume terms since winning the Costa Book of the Year, according to Nielsen BookScan data. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Costa Book of the Year is announced on January 26th. Nick Higham spoke to each of the shortlisted authors, including Andrea Wulf, winner of the biography prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Robert Harris will chair the judging panel for the 2014 Costa Book of the Year. He will be joined by writers Maggie O’Farrell, Bernadine Evaristo, Jonathan Stroud, Owen Sheers and Wendy Moore, actress Dame Diana Rigg, the BBC’s economics editor Robert Peston, and actress Samantha... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker-shortlisted Ali Smith, Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction winner Eimear McBride, and Costa Book of the Year winner Nathan Filer are among the authors vying at the Specsavers National Book Awards this year. Presented in association with high street campaign Books Are My Bag, the awards... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins is donating more than 500 copies of Nathan Filer's Costa Book of the Year-winning novel The Shock of the Fall to NHS library services across the south west. The publisher is donating copies to the NHS library network through the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Debut novelist Nathan Filer wins the Costa Book of the Year with The Shock of the Fall, his debut novel about loss, guilt and mental illness. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nathan Filer, winner of the Costa Book of the Year with his debut novel The Shock of the Fall, says he was "shocked and delighted" as the announcement was made. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Five top UK authors, including Kate Atkinson and Lucy Hughes-Hallet, are in competition for the Costa Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel wins the prestigious literary prize the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Bring Up the Bodies. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel has won the Costa Book of the Year for her Man Booker-winning novel Bring Up the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel in the bookies favourite to win the Costa Book of the Year Prize, announced tonight... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrew Miller's Costa Book of the Year-winning Pure (Sceptre) has been shortlisted for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of the Costa Book of the Year category winners have trebled since their victories last week... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has won the Costa Poetry Award for The Bees (Picador), and debut... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Mon, 26/09/2011 - 14:50 Author Jojo Moyes, Hungerford Bookshop owner Emma Milne-White and Hammicks Sharon Murray are to join the judging panels for this years Costa Book Awards. A total of 568 books have been entered for this years awards, with the category shortlists... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Costa Book of the Year prize-winner, Jo Shapcott, explains her delight that poetry has been recognised by Costa two years running. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2011-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]