Costa Book Awards 2015 - Revision history

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 |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.
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 |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.
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-|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.
+|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.
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 |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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 '''Poetry Award'''
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 '''Other Books on the Shortlist'''
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 [[Category:Literary Fiction|*Costa Book Awards 2015]]
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 '''First Novel Award'''