The shortlists for the Costa Awards were announced on Front Row last night. A list of the books competing for the £30,000 prize is below. The judging panels will meet between now and mid December, and the individual category winners will be announced on Wednesday 4th January 2012. The final awards ceremony will then take place on Tuesday 24th January.
Novel Award
The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
A Summer of Drowning, by John Burnside
Pure, by Andrew Miller
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, by Louisa Young
First Novel Award
City of Bohane, by Kevin Barry
The Last Hundred Days, by Patrick
McGuiness
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, by Christie
Watson
Pao, by Kerry Young
Biography Award
Thin Paths: Journeys In and Around an Italian
Mountain Village, by Julia Blackburn
Henry’s Demons: Living with
Schizophrenia – A Father and Son’s Story, by Patrick and Henry Cockburn
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward
Thomas, by Matthew Hollis
Charles Dickens: A Life, by Claire
Tomalin
Poetry Award
The Bees, by Carol Ann Duffy
Night, by David Harsent
Fiere, by Jackie Kay
November, by Sean O’Brien
Children’s Book Award
Flip, by Martyn Bedford
The Unforgotten Coat, by Frank
Cottrell Boyce
Small Change for Stuart, by Lissa Evans
Blood Red Road, by Moira Young
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