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'''Overall Winner'''
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|author=Hilary Mantel
|title=Bring up the Bodies
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
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Thomas Cromwell is now very far from his humble beginnings. He is Henry VIII's chief minister. Katherine of Aragorn is no longer Queen. The Princess Mary has been disinherited. Anne Boleyn wears the crown and has produced a daughter, Elizabeth. But there is no sign of a son and Henry is beginning to regret his secession from Rome. We pick up from [[Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel|Wolf Hall]] during the royal progress of 1535 and from there, we chart the destruction of the new Queen.
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'''Novel Award'''
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|author=Hilary Mantel
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'''Other Books on the Shortlist'''
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'''First Novel Award'''
'''Category Winner'''
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|author=J W IronmongerFrancesca Segal|title=The Notable Brain of Maximilian PonderInnocents|rating=Unreviewed4|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= Francesca Segal's debut novel, ''The Innocents'' is set in upper class, Jewish, North London. Adam is about to marry his childhood sweetheart, Rachel, and is working as a lawyer in her father's business. Into this romantic idyl though comes Ellie, Rachel's wayward cousin who has been forced to flee the US following an appearance in an 'art house' movie of dubious repute and, it turns out, further scandal. Ellie is everything that Rachel is not; a model, worldly, sexy and tempting. As Adam gets drawn into wanting to 'rescue' her and look after her, his whole future with Rachel is thrown into doubt and the story becomes a will they, won't they get together narrative. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>02978660950701186992</amazonuk>
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'''Other Books on the Shortlist'''
''The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder'' by J W Ironmonger
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|author=Benjamin WoodMary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot|title=The Bellwether RevivalsDotter of Her Father's Eyes|rating=Unreviewed4.5|genre=Literary FictionBiography|summary=(Simon & Schuster) If there's one person able to produce a worthwhile potted history of James Joyce's daughter, it should be Mary M Talbot. She's an eminent academic, and her father was a major Joycean scholar. Both females had parents with the same names too - James and Nora, both took to the stage when younger after going to dance school, but it's the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similarities, in a dual biography painted by one person we know by now as more than able to produce a delightful graphic novel - [[:Category:Bryan Talbot|Bryan Talbot]]. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>08572069580224096087</amazonuk>
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'''Biography AwardOther Books on the Shortlist'''
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|author=Kate Hubbard
|title=Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
|rating=Unreviewed4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary= (Chatto & Windus) Biographies old and new of Queen Victoria, her husband and her children are plentiful enough. The vast majority of them are based to some extent on the diaries, memoirs and biographies of some of the most important figures who served her, and Kate Hubbard has put these as well as supplementary archive papers to good use in presenting a thoroughly engrossing account of the royal household throughout the Queen’s lengthy reign. I might almost say ‘lively’, though that could be an exaggeration. The court of Victoria may have been homely after a fashion, but for the most part it was hardly lively.
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We don't review poetry, but here's a list of the runners and riders:
'''Category Winner'''
''The Overhaul'' by Kathleen Jamie
'''Other Books on the Shortlist'''
''Bee Journal'' by Sean Borrowdale
''People Who Like Meatballs'' by Selima Hill
''The Overhaul'Children's Book Award''' by Kathleen Jamie
'''Children's Book AwardCategory Winner'''
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'''Other Books on the Shortlist'''
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[[category:Lists]]
[[category:Literary Fiction|*Costa Prize 2012]]
