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The category shortlists were announced on 17 November and the individual category winners will be announced on 4 January: they each win £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) will be announced on 26 January 2016. | The category shortlists were announced on 17 November and the individual category winners will be announced on 4 January: they each win £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) will be announced on 26 January 2016. | ||
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+ | |title=The Lie Tree | ||
+ | |author=Frances Hardinge | ||
+ | |rating=5 | ||
+ | |genre=Teens | ||
+ | |summary=Fans of Frances Hardinge will be familiar with the eerie, unreal atmosphere of her books. Mysteries lurk in the shadows, perplexing and sometimes menacing her characters, and the strange and the banal jostle each other for space on the page. A world both familiar and outlandish is offered to us, where once again a fallible but endearing heroine battles forces which threaten to overwhelm her at every turn. | ||
+ | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>144726410X</amazonuk> | ||
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'''Novel Award''' | '''Novel Award''' | ||
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|title=A God in Ruins | |title=A God in Ruins | ||
|author=Kate Atkinson | |author=Kate Atkinson | ||
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|genre=Literary Fiction | |genre=Literary Fiction | ||
− | |summary= | + | |summary=Teddy Todd never really expected to survive the war. As a bomber pilot it wasn't something which you could rely on and he certainly knew the statistics. But - against all the odds, he came through it, albeit with some time spent as a prisoner of war. On balance he had a good war, but time will see him married to Nancy, father to Viola and grandfather to Sunny and Bertie - and left with the feeling that it's more difficult to have a good peace than a good war. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618700</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618700</amazonuk> | ||
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|title=The Green Road | |title=The Green Road | ||
|author=Anne Enright | |author=Anne Enright | ||
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|genre=Literary Fiction | |genre=Literary Fiction | ||
− | |summary= | + | |summary= ''The Green Road'' is the story of a family. If the author was anyone other than Anne Enright it would be stereotypically Irish, with all the boxes ticked: the boy who goes off to be a priest, the daughter who likes the bottle far too much, the son who does good works and the woman who stays back where she was born and marries a local man, the dead husband who was perhaps just a little bit beneath the wife who plays the ''grande dame'' and is perfect at being needy, whilst all the while maintaining that she needs nothing. But, of course, it ''is'' Anne Enright. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089064</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089064</amazonuk> | ||
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205294</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205294</amazonuk> | ||
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+ | {{amazonurl|isbn=140885905X|title=At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison}} | ||
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+ | '''First Novel Award''' | ||
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+ | '''Winner''' | ||
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− | |title= | + | |title=The Loney |
− | |author= | + | |author=Andrew Michael Hurley |
− | |rating= | + | |rating=5 |
|genre=Literary Fiction | |genre=Literary Fiction | ||
− | |summary= | + | |summary=It's always a privilege when you're given an advance reading copy of something – and a real 'block' when you read the small print that says 'not for resale or quotation'. Fair comment on the resale bit, but when you get something as brilliant as ''The Loney'' being required not to quote is just plain unfair. |
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− | |title=Things We Have | + | |title=Things We Have In Common |
|author=Tasha Kavanagh | |author=Tasha Kavanagh | ||
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|genre=Literary Fiction | |genre=Literary Fiction | ||
− | |summary= | + | |summary=Yasmin is fifteen and seriously overweight - her capacity for consuming food will amaze and sicken. She's bullied at school and even her own mother finds her just a little bit weird: let's not go into what her stepfather thinks about her. Her father died a while ago, but Yasmin has never really come to terms with his death and still has the feeling that everything would be OK if only Terry was still around. There's a girl in Yasmin's class called Alice and Yasmin is so in awe of her that she stalks her. One day, in the school playground, she spots a man watching Alice as carefully as she does and becomes obsessed by the idea that the man is going to abduct Alice. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782115943</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782115943</amazonuk> | ||
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+ | '''Biography Award''' | ||
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− | |title=The | + | |title=The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science |
− | |author= | + | |author=Andrea Wulf |
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− | |genre= | + | |genre=Biography |
− | |summary= | + | |summary=Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in 1769, the younger brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but who is perhaps better remembered as a philosopher and linguist. The family was well-to-do and both brothers benefitted from an excellent education, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed mother, but it was a legacy from her which would fund Alexander's first explorations. His first travels would be in Europe where he met and was influenced by people such as Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, who had travelled with Thomas Cook. But it was his travels in Latin America which would lay the foundations for his life's work. |
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− | |title=The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and | + | |title=The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland |
|author=Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | |author=Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | ||
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|genre=Biography | |genre=Biography | ||
− | |summary= | + | |summary=Think of iconic novels, and ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' will be near the top of your list. From the rabbit hole to the Mad Hatter's tea party and the Queen's cricket ground, Lewis Carroll's imagination has established itself firmly in Western cultural heritage: with a parade of characters ranging from the weird to the wonderful and a constant play with logic and language, Carroll's masterpiece has earned its place among classics. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558611</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558611</amazonuk> | ||
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+ | {{amazonurl|isbn=0434023221|title=The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding}} | ||
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− | | | + | |author= Ruth Scurr |
− | | | + | |title= John Aubrey: My Own Life |
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− | |genre=Biography | + | |genre= Biography |
− | |summary= | + | |summary=John Aubrey, the seventeenth-century antiquary, writer and archaeologist, occupies a peculiar, even unique place in English literature. When he died, the work for which he is most famous, 'Brief Lives', was a disorganised collection of manuscripts which remained unpublished for over a century. Only in the last hundred years or so has be become more widely recognised as an interesting character and perceptive commentator on society, scholarship and on his contemporaries during the post-restoration era. |
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{{amazonurl|isbn=0224102133|title=Physical by Andrew McMillan}} | {{amazonurl|isbn=0224102133|title=Physical by Andrew McMillan}} | ||
{{amazonurl|isbn=1906188157|title=The Observances by Kate Miller}} | {{amazonurl|isbn=1906188157|title=The Observances by Kate Miller}} | ||
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{{amazonurl|isbn=0224097296|title=Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson}} | {{amazonurl|isbn=0224097296|title=Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson}} | ||
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'''Children's Book Award''' | '''Children's Book Award''' | ||
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+ | {{amazonurl|isbn=1471404803|title=Sophie Someone by Hayley Long}} | ||
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[[Category:Literary Fiction|*Costa Book Awards 2015]] | [[Category:Literary Fiction|*Costa Book Awards 2015]] | ||
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Revision as of 09:21, 6 April 2018
The category shortlists were announced on 17 November and the individual category winners will be announced on 4 January: they each win £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) will be announced on 26 January 2016.
Overall Winner
Novel Award
Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison
First Novel Award
Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
Biography Award
Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
Poetry Award
Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
The Observances by Kate Miller
Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson
Children's Book Award
Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
Jessica's Ghost by Andrew Norriss
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