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The Costa First Novel Award
Costa Coffee announced 1 June 2006 a new sponsorship deal and took over the prestigious Whitbread Book Awards.
The First Novel Award receives £5,000. See the Costa Book Awards site.
2009
Beauty Winner- Raphael Selbourne
- The Finest Type of English Womanhood
- Rachel Heath
- John the Revelator
- Peter Murphy
- The Girl with Glass Feet
- Ali Shaw
2008
- The Outcast Winner
- Sadie Jones
- The Behaviour of Moths
- Poppy Adams
- Child 44
- Tom Rob Smith
- Inside the Whale
- Jennie Rooney
2007
What Was Lost Winner- Catherine O'Flynn
- A Golden Age
- Tahmima Anam
- Gifted
- Nikita Lalwani
- Mosquito
- Roma Tearne
2006
- The Tenderness of Wolves Winner (also Book of the Year)
- Stef Penney
- The Meaning of Night
- Michael Cox
- Cloth Girl
- Marilyn Heward Mills
- The Amnesia Clinic
- James Scudamore
