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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.
'''Overall Winner'''
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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.
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'''Novel Award'''
'''Winner'''
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618700</amazonuk>
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'''Other Books on the Shortlist'''
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205294</amazonuk>
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{{amazonurl|isbn=140885905X|title=At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison}}
'''First Novel Award'''
'''Winner'''
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|title=At Hawthorn TimeThe Loney|author=Melissa HarrisonAndrew Michael Hurley|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We donIt't have s always a review privilege when you're given an advance reading copy of this book yet! 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140885905X1473619823</amazonuk>
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'''First Novel AwardOther Books on the Shortlist'''
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{{toptenamazonurl|isbn=0571313248|title=The Girl in the Red Coat|author=by Kate Hamer|rating=|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313248</amazonuk>}}
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|title=Things We Have in In Common
|author=Tasha Kavanagh
|rating=4
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782115943</amazonuk>
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'''Biography Award'''
'''Winner'''
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|title=The LoneyInvention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science|author=Andrew Michael HurleyAndrea Wulf|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionBiography|summary=It's always 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 privilege when you're given philosopher and linguist. The family was well-to-do and both brothers benefitted from an advance reading copy of something – and excellent education, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed mother, but it was a real legacy from her which would fund Alexander'block' when you read 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 small print that says 'not for resale or quotation'Royal Society, who had travelled with Thomas Cook. Fair comment on But it was his travels in Latin America which would lay the resale bit, but when you get something as brilliant as foundations for his life''The Loney'' being required not to quote is just plain unfairs work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14736198231848548982</amazonuk>
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'''Biography AwardOther Books on the Shortlist'''
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|title=The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The the Secret History of Wonderland
|author=Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=We donThink of iconic novels, and ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland't have ' 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 review parade of this book yet!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.
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{{amazonurl|isbn=0434023221|title=The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding}}
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|titleauthor=The House by the LakeRuth Scurr|authortitle=Thomas HardingJohn Aubrey: My Own Life|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=We donJohn 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't have , was a review disorganised collection of this book yet!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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04340232210099490633</amazonuk>
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{{toptenamazonurl|titleisbn=The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science0571310893|author=Andrea Wulf|rating=|genre=Biography|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet!|amazonuktitle=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>40 Sonnets by Don Paterson}}
'''Poetry AwardOther Books on the Shortlist'''
{{amazonurl|isbn=0224102133|title=Physical by Andrew McMillan}}
{{amazonurl|isbn=1906188157|title=The Observances by Kate Miller}}
{{amazonurl|isbn=0224097296|title=Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson}}
'''Children's Book Award'''
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'''Other Books on the Shortlist'''
{{amazonurl|isbn=1471404803|title=Sophie Someone by Hayley Long}}
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{{toptenamazonurl|isbn=1910200336|title=Jessica's Ghost|author=by Andrew Norriss|rating=|genre=Teens|summary=We don't have a review of this book yet! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200336</amazonuk>}}
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[[Category:Literary Fiction|*Costa Book Awards 2015]]
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