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|author=Sam Byers | |author=Sam Byers | ||
|title=Idiopathy | |title=Idiopathy | ||
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|genre=Literary Fiction | |genre=Literary Fiction | ||
| − | |summary= | + | |summary=Katherine no longer seeks or expects to be happy. She's stuck in a place and a job she hates and her relationship with Daniel broke up over a year ago. Since then she's had sexual encounters with a few men but her motivations have been confusing and disturbing - not least to Katherine. She has a vicious wit (actually, calling it ''wit'' is perhaps stretching the point a little...) which repels the people she'd like to attract and attracts the people she'd prefer to repel. Daniel is with a new girlfriend (well, there was a ''slight'' overlap) but he's not certain that he loves Angelica. He's in a difficult situation: not telling her that he loves her becomes tantamount to telling her that he doesn't love her and as a result he has to tell her that he loves her just to keep on the level. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007412088</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007412088</amazonuk> | ||
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Revision as of 13:09, 30 December 2013
The category shortlists were announced on 27 November and the individual category winners will be known on 6 January: they will each win £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) will be announced on 28 January.
The shortlists in full:
2013 Costa Novel Award shortlist
2013 Costa First Novel Award shortlist
2013 Costa Biography Award shortlist
2013 Costa Poetry Award shortlist
Clive James for Dante, The Divine Comedy (Picador) Helen Mort for Division Street (Chatto & Windus) Robin Robertson for Hill of Doors (Picador) Michael Symmons Roberts for Drysalter (Jonathan Cape)
2013 Costa Children’s Book Award shortlist
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