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.
The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Children's
From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him. As the plane crashes into ...Show more
The Haunting of Henry Twist by Rebecca F John
$32.99 NZD
Category: First Novel
London, 1926: Henry Twist's heavily pregnant wife leaves home to meet a friend. On the way, she is hit by a bus and killed, though miraculously the baby survives. Henry is left with nothing but his new daughter - a single father in a world without single fathers. He hurries the baby home, terrified that ...Show more
The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Ami lives on Culion, an island for people who have leprosy. Her mother is among the infected. She loves her home–with its blue seas and lush forests, Culion contains all she knows and loves. But the arrival of malicious government official Mr Zamora changes her world forever: islanders untouched by sick ...Show more
The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Novel | Reading Level: very good
Conceived while his larger-than-life father, Bear Bavinsky, cavorted around Rome in the 1950s, the young Pinch learns that his father''s genius trumps everything else. After Bear abandons his family, Pinch strives to make himself worthy--first as a painter, and then as his father''s biographer, before s ...Show more
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography by Benjamin Zephaniah by Benjamin Zephaniah
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn; Angela Harding
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle: from the bestselling author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Last Murder at the End of th by Stuart Turton
$21.99 NZD
Category: First Novel
Gosford Parkmeets Groundhog Dayby way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror -the most inventive story you'll read this yearTonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed ... Again It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful d ...Show more
Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 2018Hannah Sullivan's debut collection is a revelation - three long poems of fresh ambition, intensity, and substance. Though each poem stands apart, their inventive and looping encounters make for a comp ...Show more
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
$29.99 NZD
Category: Novel | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Novel Award From internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking novel celebrating love in all its forms and the little moments that make up the life of an autoworker in a small working-class town. This is almost a love story. But i ...Show more
To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography
"Brave and engaging."--Kirkus Reviews The remarkable follow-up to her sensational, bestselling memoir At the launch party for her memoir Clothes Music Boys in 2014, Viv Albertine received the news her mother was dying. She left the party immediately and spent a few final hours with a woman who had been ...Show more