Costa Book Awards 2008 - Revision history

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 |rating=3.5
 |summary=Bookbag disagreed with the Costa judges again. ''Just Henry'' was Bookbag's least favourite of the nominees. Bookbag raved about [[Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray]], [[The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd]] and [[Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine]].
-|isbn=1405227575
+|isbn=1405276959
-|genre=Confident Readers
+|genre=Teens
 }}

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 |rating=4.5
 |summary=Bookbag agreed with the judges' decision, with The Outcast winning out over the other shortlisted books: [[The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams]], [[Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith]] and [[Inside the Whale by Jennie Rooney]].
-|isbn=0701181753
+|isbn=0099513420
 |genre=Literary Fiction
 }}

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 ===Book of the Year===
-{{topten
+{{Frontpage
 |author=Sebastian Barry
 |title=The Secret Scripture
 |rating=4
 |summary=Like our reviewer, the judges were not impressed by the ending, but they thought Roseanne McNulty was one of the great voices of narrative fiction and that this transcended any problems with the book.
-|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571215289</amazonuk>
+|isbn=0571215289
 }}
 ===First Novel===
-{{topten
+{{Frontpage
 |author=Sadie Jones
 |title=The Outcast
 |rating=4.5
 |summary=Bookbag agreed with the judges' decision, with The Outcast winning out over the other shortlisted books: [[The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams]], [[Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith]] and [[Inside the Whale by Jennie Rooney]].
-|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701181753</amazonuk>
+|isbn=0701181753
 }}
 ===Novel===
-{{topten
+{{Frontpage
 |author=Sebastian Barry
 |title=The Secret Scripture
 |rating=4
 |summary=Bookbag thought that The Secret Scripture was a great book with a poor ending, but it beat fellow nominees [[The Other Hand by Chris Cleave]] (which Bookbag particularly loved), [[A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres]] and ''Trauma'' by Patrick McGrath.
-|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571215289</amazonuk>
+|isbn=0571215289
 }}
 ===Biography===
-{{topten
+{{Frontpage
 |author=Diana Athill
 |title=Somewhere Towards the End
 |rating=3
 |summary=Bookbag disagreed with the Costa judges, only giving ''Somewhere Towards the End'' 3 stars. However, it still had lots going for it. The nominees were Bloomsbury Ballerina by Judith Mackrell, [[If You Don't Know Me By Now by Sathnam Sanghera]] (Bookbag's favourite) and Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager.
-|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847080693</amazonuk>
+|isbn=1847080693
 }}
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 ===Children's Book===
-{{topten
+{{Frontpage
 |author=Michelle Magorian
 |title=Just Henry
 |rating=3.5
 |summary=Bookbag disagreed with the Costa judges again. ''Just Henry'' was Bookbag's least favourite of the nominees. Bookbag raved about [[Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray]], [[The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd]] and [[Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine]].
-|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405227575</amazonuk>
+|isbn=1405227575
 }}
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+{{commentfeature|genre=
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 |title=The Secret Scripture
 |rating=4
-|summary=Bookbag thought that The Secret Scripture was a great book with a poor ending, but it beat fellow nominees [[The Other Hand by Chris Cleave]] (which Bookbag particularly loved), [[A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres]] and [[Trauma by Patrick McGrath]].
+|summary=Bookbag thought that The Secret Scripture was a great book with a poor ending, but it beat fellow nominees [[The Other Hand by Chris Cleave]] (which Bookbag particularly loved), [[A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres]] and ''Trauma'' by Patrick McGrath.
 |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571215289</amazonuk>
 }}

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 ===Poetry===
-{{topten
-|author=Adam Foulds
+''The Broken Word'' by Adam Foulds  won the prize for best poetry book, despite strong competition from For ''All We Know'' by Ciaran Carson, ''Sunday at the Skin Launderette'' by Kathryn Simmonds and ''Salvation Jane'' by Greta Stoddart.
 ===Children's Book===

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 |title=The Broken Word
 |rating=unreviewed
-|summary=The Broken Word won the prize for best poetry book, despite strong competition from For All We Know by Ciaran Carson, [[Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds]] and Salvation Jane by Greta Stoddart.
+|summary=The Broken Word won the prize for best poetry book, despite strong competition from For All We Know by Ciaran Carson, ''Sunday at the Skin Launderette'' by Kathryn Simmonds and Salvation Jane by Greta Stoddart.
 |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224084445</amazonuk>
 }}