Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards is a prestigious literary prize, presented annually to authors based in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Since 1971 winners have been selected across five categories, with one winner also awarded the overall Book of the Year prize.
Shop the nominees from each category below.
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'Expertly alternating vivid domestic detail with lucid exposition of the gradual evolution of totalitarianism, Caroline Moorehead allows her readers not only to know, but also to feel, how it was to endure fascist oppressiona . It feels like the book she was born to write' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, GuardianM ...Show more
An Unremarkable Body by Elisa Lodato
$34.99 NZD
Category: First Novel | Reading Level: very good
When Katharine is found dead at the foot of her stairs, it is the mystery of her life which consumes daughter, Laura.The medical examiner's report, in which precious parts of Katharine's body are weighed and categorized, motivates Laura to write her own version of events. To bear witness to the unbearab ...Show more
Assurances by J. O. Morgan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a period of vigilance and dread in the middle of the Cold War: the long stand-off between nuclear powers, where the only defence was the threat of mutually assured destruction. Using a mix of versed and unversed p ...Show more
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
$35.00 NZD
Category: First Novel | Reading Level: very good
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon. Named a New York Times 2017 "Books to Breeze Through This Summer" Winner of the 2018 Costa First Novel Award Longlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.Meet Eleanor Ol ...Show more
Fragile Lives by Stephen Westaby
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT'S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir from one of the world's most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he's worked on. Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeon's shoulder. A slip of the hand and life eb ...Show more
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
$29.99 NZD
Category: Novel | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR ...Show more
In the Days of Rain: A Daughter. A Father. A Cult (Brethren) by Rebecca Stott
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
In the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy when you can be Normal?: an enthralling, at times shocking, and deeply personal family memoir of growing up in, and breaking away from, a fundamentalist Christian cult. 'At university when I made new friends and confidantes, I couldn't explain how I'd become a t ...Show more
Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore
$22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead - the underworld and the human living world - and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they expl ...Show more
Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
*AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 AND RADIO 6 MUSIC**FINANCIAL TIMES SUMMER PICK 2017**GUARDIAN BEST HOLIDAY READS 2017* 'A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and at times darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief - from one of my favourite writers' - Warsan Shire Translating as 'in ...Show more
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
$0.00 NZD
Category: First Novel
Sometimes it takes a stranger to really know who you are When Tina Hopgood writes a letter of regret to a man she has never met, she doesn’t expect a reply. When Anders Larsen, a lonely museum curator, answers it, nor does he. They’re both searching for something, they just don’t know it yet. ...Show more