Are here… finally. I love this prize and have done for ages, this year being all the more special because I am judging the First Novel Award and can finally talk about the shortlist. But before I do in more depth in the next day or so here are the shortlists, tell me what you think about all of them.
2017 Costa Novel Award shortlist
- Jon McGregor for Reservoir 13 (4th Estate)
- Stef Penney for Under a Pole Star (Quercus)
- Kamila Shamsie for Home Fire (Bloomsbury Circus)
- Sarah Winman for Tin Man (Tinder Press)
2017 Costa First Novel Award shortlist
- Xan Brooks for The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times (Salt)
- Karl Geary for Montpelier Parade (Harvill Secker)
- Gail Honeyman for Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (HarperCollins)
- Rebecca F. John for The Haunting of Henry Twist (Serpent’s Tail)
2017 Costa Biography Award shortlist
- Xiaolu Guo for Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up (Chatto & Windus)
- Caroline Moorehead for A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Chatto & Windus)
- Rebecca Stott for In The Days of Rain (4th Estate)
- Professor Stephen Westaby for Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table (HarperCollins)
2017 Costa Poetry Award shortlist
- Kayo Chingonyi for Kumukanda (Chatto & Windus)
- Helen Dunmore for Inside the Wave (Bloodaxe Books)
- Sinéad Morrissey for On Balance (Carcanet)
- Richard Osmond for Useful Verses (Picador)
2017 Costa Children’s Book Award shortlist
- Sarah Crossan for Moonrise (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
- Lissa Evans for Wed Wabbit (David Fickling Books)
- Kiran Millwood Hargrave for The Island at the End of Everything (Chicken House)
- Katherine Rundell for The Explorer (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
Which ones have you read, which ones are you excited to read and, of course, what do you think of the debut category. I am very excited to be able to talk about them all…
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