The Costa Novel Awards

Costa Coffee announced 1 June 2006 a new sponsorship deal and took over the prestigious Whitbread Book Awards.

The Novel Award Winner receives £5,000. See the Costa Book Awards site.

2008 shortlist

The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry

The Other Hand

Chris Cleave

A Partisan's Daughter

Louis de Bernieres

Trauma

Patrick McGrath

2007

Day Winner (and Book of the Year)

A.L. Kennedy

Skin Lane

Neil Bartlett

Death of a Murderer

Rupert Thomson

The Road Home

Rose Tremain

2006

Restless Winner

William Boyd

Saving Caravaggio

Neil Griffiths

A Spot of Bother

Mark Haddon

Black Swan Green

David Mitchell