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.
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
$20.00 NZD
Category: First Novel
'Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me.' Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of the Runaways The house is on Montpelier Parade- just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working ...Show more
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2017. The astonishing new novel from Carnegie Medal, CliPPA Poetry Award, YA Book Prize and CBI Book of the Year Award winning author Sarah Crossan.They think I hurt someone.But I didn't. You hear?Cos people are gonna be telling youall kinds of lies.I need ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$32.99 NZD
Category: Novel | Reading Level: very good
A wondrous and wise coming-of-age love story from the celebrated author of Conversations with Friends At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud and intensely private. But when Connell come ...Show more
On Balance by Sinead Morrissey
$26.34 NZD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award. Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017. Set against a backdrop of ecological and economic instability, Sinead Morrissey's sixth collection, On Balance, revisits some of the great feats of human engineering to reveal the states of b ...Show more
Once upon a Time in the East : A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
$38.85 NZD
Category: Biography
Orphan, Monster, Spy by Matt Killeen
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children's
"Like Inglourious Basterds for tweens, this clever YA title features Sarah, a blond, blue-eyed Jewish girl in 1939 Germany."--The New York Post After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah finds herself on the run from the Nazis in Third Reich-ruled Germany. While trying to escap ...Show more
Pieces of Me by Natalie Hart
$4.61 NZD
Category: First Novel
'An important and timely story that explores the ongoing impact of war and how it's often left to the women to pick up the pieces. The way Hart has made a mosaic of different women's experiences, be they British, American or Iraqi, is profoundly moving. Pieces of Me is a love story that will leave you i ...Show more
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
$39.99 NZD
Category: Novel
From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and Even the Dogs. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss. A GUARDIAN NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the ...Show more
Soho by Richard Scott
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry
In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and shame, drawing upon his experience of London's gay communities. Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use, Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray ...Show more
The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks
$20.00 NZD
Category: First Novel
New Faces of Fiction 2017, ObserverObserver Fiction to look out for in 2017The Irish Times What To Look Out for in 2017 from Independent PublishersJen Campbell's `Most Anticipated Books of 2017'Jean Bookish Thoughts `Most Anticipated Releases of 2017'A dark social-realist fairytale, spotlighting the sha ...Show more