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 |genre=Confident Readers
 |summary= It all starts with ''sigh, soft and sad and ending in a little squeak''.  But while some mice can end up roaring, so this book soon escalates from just meeting the ghost of a dead mouse to something much bigger.  Through exploring the country pile Goth Girl Ada lives in with her father, alongside the ghost mouse, she finds an albatross, a Polar Explorer who might be a monster, and then a compact club of young people her age she had no idea existed.  There's even more to be found after that, as Ada discovers how malevolent the party season's plans are going to get, with a nasty indoor hunt having some remarkable prey…
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 |genre=Literary Fiction
 |summary=On the morning after his father’s funeral Arjan Banga was surprised to see his mother opening up the family shop.  She was in her sixties, recovering from cancer and besides, Bains Stores wasn’t exactly thriving.  You could even be forgiven for wondering if it was ‘’open’’, with the advert for a bar of chocolate discontinued in 1994 having pride of place in the window and the security shutter stuck at a quarter open.  Much as he might wish otherwise Arjan has no choice but to stay in Wolverhampton to help his mother, leaving his job as a graphic designer and his girlfriend, Freya in limbo.  They were supposed to be getting married in December, but that looked increasingly unlikely.
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 'I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon. I think you're going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he'll be dead. And he was never the same after that.'
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 'I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon. I think you're going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he'll be dead. And he was never the same after that.'
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+''All the Birds, Singing'' by Evie Wyld
 '''2013 Costa First Novel Award shortlist'''

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+[[Category:Literary Fiction|*Costa Book Awards 2013]]
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-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 category shortlists were announced on 27 November and the individual category winners  on 6 January: they each won £5,000.  The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) was  announced on 28 January.
 The shortlists in full:

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 |genre=Literary Fiction
-|summary= Jonathan Cape request 27/11
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 |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096680</amazonuk>
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 |author=Evie Wyld
 |title=All the Birds, Singing