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Costa Book Award for First Novel

The Costa Book Award for First Novel, formerly known as the Whitbread Award (1971–2006), was an annual literary award for authors' debut novels, part of the Costa Book Awards which were discontinued in 2022, the 2021 awards being the last made.[1]

Recipients edit

Costa Books of the Year are distinguished wit a blue ribbon ( ).

1900s edit

Costa Book Award for First Novel winners and finalists, 1974-1999[2]
Year Author Title Ref.
1974 Claire Tomalin The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Winner
1975 Ruth Spalding The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke Winner
No award presented 1976-1980
1981 William Boyd A Good Man in Africa Winner
1982 Bruce Chatwin On the Black Hill Winner
1983 John Fuller Flying to Nowhere Winner
1984 James Buchan A Parish of Rich Women Winner
1985 Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Winner
1986 Jim Crace Continent Winner
1987 Francis Wyndham The Other Garden Winner
1988 Paul Sayer The Comforts of Madness   Winner
1989 James Hamilton-Paterson Gerontius Winner
1990 Hanif Kureishi The Buddha of Suburbia Winner
1991 Gordon Burn Alma Cogan Winner
1992 Jeff Torrington Swing Hammer Swing!   Winner
1993 Rachel Cusk Saving Agnes Winner
1994 Fred D'Aguiar The Longest Memory Winner
1995 Kate Atkinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum   Winner
Stephen Blanchard Gagarin & I Shortlist
Alan Warner Morvern Callar
1996 John Lanchester The Debt to Pleasure Winner
Seamus Deane Reading In the Dark Shortlist
Georgina Hammick The Arizona Game
Mary Morrissy Mother of Pearl
1997 Pauline Melville The Ventriloquist's Tale Winner
Anne Haverty One Day as a Tiger Shortlist
Mick Jackson The Underground Man
Ardashir Vakil Beach Boy
Phil Whitaker Eclipse of the Sun
1998 Giles Foden The Last King of Scotland Winner
Gavin Kramer Shopping Shortlist
Magnus Mills The Restraint of Beasts
Luke Sutherland Jelly Roll
1999 Tim Lott White City Blue Winner
Suzanne Cleminshaw The Great Ideas Shortlist
Andrew O'Hagan Our Fathers
Francine Stock A Foreign Country 0

2000s edit

Costa Book Award for First Novel winners and shortlists, 2000-present
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2000 Zadie Smith White Teeth Winner [2]
Michel Faber Under the Skin Shortlist
Jo-Ann Goodwin Danny Boy
Laura Hird Born Free
2001 Sid Smith Something Like a House Winner [2]
Will Eaves The Oversight Shortlist
Carl Tighe Burning Worm
Gerard Woodward August
2002 Norman Lebrecht The Song of Names Winner [2]
Neil Astley The End of My Tether Shortlist
Tariq Goddard Homage to a Firing Squad
Hari Kunzru The Impressionist
2003 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little Winner [2]
Anne Donovan Buddha Da Shortlist
Paul Murray An Evening of Long Goodbyes
Talitha Stevenson An Empty Room
2004 Susan Fletcher Eve Green Winner [2]
Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Shortlist
Richard Collins The Land as Viewed from the Sea
Susan Fletcher Eve Green
Panos Karnezis The Maze
2005 Tash Aw The Harmony Silk Factory Winner [2]
Diana Evans 26a Shortlist
Peter Hobbs The Short Day Dying
Rachel Zadok Gem Squash Tokoloshe
2006 Stef Penney The Tenderness of Wolves   Winner [2]
Michael Cox The Meaning of Night Shortlist [3]
Marilyn Heward Mills Cloth Girl
James Scudamore The Amnesia Clinic
2007 Catherine O'Flynn What Was Lost Winner [2][4]
Tahmima Anam A Golden Age Shortlist
Nikita Lalwani Gifted
Roma Tearne Mosquito
2008 Sadie Jones The Outcast Winner [2][5]
Poppy Adams The Behaviour of Moths Shortlist
Tom Rob Smith Child 44
Jennie Rooney Inside the Whale
2009 Raphael Selbourne Beauty Winner [6]
Rachel Heath The Finest Type of English Womanhood Shortlist
Peter Murphy John the Revelator
Ali Shaw The Girl with Glass Feet
2010 Kishwar Desai Witness the Night Winner [7][8]
Nikesh Shukla Coconut Unlimited Shortlist
Aatish Taseer The Temple-Goers
Simon Thirsk Not Quite White
2011 Christie Watson Tiny Sunbirds Far Away Winner [9][10]
Kevin Barry City of Bohane Shortlist [11]
Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days
Kerry Young Pao
2012 Francesca Segal The Innocents Winner [12][13]
J. W. Ironmonger The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder Shortlist
Jess Richards Snake Ropes
Benjamin Wood The Bellwether Revivals
2013 Nathan Filer The Shock of the Fall   Winner [14][15][16]
Sam Byers Idiopathy Shortlist [17][18]
Kate Clanchy Meeting the English
Sathnam Sanghera Marriage Material
2014 Emma Healey Elizabeth is Missing Winner [19][20][21]
Carys Bray A Song for Issy Bradley Shortlist [22][23]
Mary Costello Academy Street
Simon Wroe Chop Chop
2015 Andrew Michael Hurley The Loney Winner [24]
Sara Baume Spill Simmer Falter Wither Shortlist [25]
Kate Hamer The Girl in the Red Coat
Tasha Kavanagh Things We Have in Common
2016 Francis Spufford Golden Hill Winner [26]
Maggie O'Farrell This Must Be the Place Shortlist [27]
Sarah Perry The Essex Serpent
Guinevere Glasfurd The Words in My Hand
2017 Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Winner [28]
Xan Brooks The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times Shortlist [29][30]
Karl Geary Montpelier Parade
Rebecca F. John The Haunting of Henry Twist
2018 Stuart Turton The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Winner [31][32]
Natalie Hart Pieces of Me Shortlist [33]
Elisa Lodato An Unremarkable Body
Anne Youngson Meet Me at the Museum
2019 Sara Collins The Confessions of Frannie Langton Winner [34][35]
Brian Bilston Diary of a Somebody Shortlist [36]
Candice Carty-Williams Queenie
Joanna Glen The Other Half of Augusta Hope
2020 Ingrid Persaud Love After Love Winner [37]
Michelle Gallen Big Girl, Small Town Shortlist [38]
Sairish Hussain The Family Tree
Karen Raney All the Water in the World
2021 Caleb Azumah Nelson Open Water Winner [39][40]
A. K. Blakemore The Manningtree Witches Shortlist [41]
Emily Itami Fault Lines
Kate Sawyer The Stranding

References edit

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