2015 Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards (before 2006 known as the Whitbread Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 2015.
The shortlist was announced c. 17 November 2015.[1] The category winners were announced c. 4 January 2016, and the overall winner was announced on 26 January 2016.[2][3]
Book of the Year
Winner: Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree[3]
Children's Book
Winner: Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
Shortlist:
- Hayley Long, Sophie Someone
- Sally Nicholls, An Island of Our Own
- Andrew Norriss, Jessica's Ghost
First Novel
Winner: Andrew Michael Hurley, The Loney
Shortlist:
- Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither
- Kate Hamer, The Girl in the Red Coat
- Tasha Kavanagh, Things We Have in Common
Novel
Winner: Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins
Shortlist:
- Anne Enright, The Green Road
- Patrick Gale, A Place Called Winter
- Melissa Harrison, At Hawthorn Time
Biography
Winner: Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Lost Hero of Science
Shortlist:
- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
- Thomas Harding, The House by the Lake
- Ruth Scurr, John Aubrey: My Own Life
Poetry
Winner: Don Paterson, 40 Sonnets
Shortlist:
- Andrew McMillan, Physical
- Kate Miller, The Observances
- Neil Rollinson, Talking Dead
Short Story
- Winner: TBD
- Second: TBD
- Third: TBD
References
- Drabble, Emily (17 November 2015). "The Costa Children's book award shortlist 2015 announced". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
- Drabble, Emily (4 January 2016). "Frances Hardinge scoops the Costa children's book award 2015 with The Lie Tree". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
- Brown, Mark (26 January 2016). "Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree wins Costa book of the year 2015". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
- Shortlist: "Shortlist for the 2015 Costa Novel Award" (PDF). Costa Coffee. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
- Category winners: "2015 Costa Category Award Winners" (PDF). Costa Coffee. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 January 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2016.