Recreation

The Costa Novel Awards

Costa Coffee announced 1 June 2006 a new sponsorship deal and took over the prestigious Whitbread Book Awards.

The Novel Award Winner receives £5,000. See the Costa Book Awards site.

2009

Brooklyn Winner
Colm Tóibín
Family Album
Penelope Lively
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
The Elephant Keeper
Christopher Nicholson

2008

Secret scriptureThe Secret Scripture Winner (and Book of the year)
Sebastian Barry
The Other Hand
Chris Cleave
A Partisan's Daughter
Louis de Bernieres
Trauma
Patrick McGrath

2007

DayDay Winner
A.L. Kennedy
Skin Lane
Neil Bartlett
Death of a Murderer
Rupert Thomson
The Road Home
Rose Tremain

2006

RestlessRestless Winner
William Boyd
Saving Caravaggio
Neil Griffiths
A Spot of Bother
Mark Haddon
Black Swan Green
David Mitchell