Costa book awards winners 2016

Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Costa Book Awards.

These awards honour some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the UK and Ireland, across five different categories.

The 2016 winners for each category are Golden Hill by Francis Spufford (First novel), Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (Novel), Dadland: A Journey Into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew (Biography), Falling Awake by Alice Oswald (Poetry) and The Bombs That Brought Us Together by Brian Conaghan (Children’s books).

One of the five category winners will also be named Book of the Year at a ceremony in London on January 31. Read more about the Costa book awards here.

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Days Without End

Sebastian Barry

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2017 literary prize winners

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The Museum of Modern Love

Heather Rose

Winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. A mesmerising literary novel about a lost man in search of connection - a meditation on love, art and commitment, set against the backdrop…

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Lost Pages

Marija Pericic

In this inspired novel of friendship, fraud, madness and betrayal, Marija Peričić writes vividly and compellingly of an extraordinary literary rivalry.

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The Last Days Of Ava Langdon

Mark O'Flynn,Mark O'Flynn

Winner of the Voss Literary Prize 2017

Ava Langdon is often not herself. Having fled her early life in New Zealand and endured the loss of her children, she now…

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Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers

Ryan O'Neill

Absurd, original and highly addictive … In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall…

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Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story

Elizabeth Tynan

In 1950 Australian prime minister Robert Menzies blithely agreed to atomic tests that offered no benefit to Australia and relinquished control over them - and left the public completely in…

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Quicksilver

Nicolas Rothwell

Six essays exploring the connections between old world Europe, aboriginal Australia, religion, meaning and the power of the sacred.

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