Costa book awards shortlists 2016

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The Essex Serpent

Sarah Perry

London 1893: When Cora Seaborne and her son Francis reach Essex, rumours spread from further up the estuary that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming…

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Falling Awake

Alice Oswald

Mutability - a sense that all matter is unstable in the face of mortality - is at the heart of this new collection and each poem is involved in that…

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Say Something Back

Denise Riley

The stunning new collection from one of England’s finest and most philosophical contemporary poets.

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Let Them Eat Chaos: Mercury Prize Shortlisted

Kae Tempest

Kate Tempest’s powerful new narrative poem - set to music on her album of the same title - illuminates the lives of a single city street, creating an electric, humming…

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Orangeboy

Patrice Lawrence

A young man has an impossible choice to make, in this powerful urban story that will challenge preconceptions and melt the hardest heart.

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Time Travelling with a Hamster

Ross Welford

A truly original debut novel from an extraordinarily talented new voice in children’s books. Laugh, cry and wonder at this race-against-time story of a boy who travels back to 1984…

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