The Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards is one of the most prestigious and popular
literary prizes in the UK and recognises some of the most enjoyable
books of the year by writers based in the UK and Ireland.
The prize is unique in many ways, not least in having five
categories: First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's
Book. The winner in each category receives £5,000. One of these
five books is selected as the overall winner of the Book of the
Year and receives a further £25,000. It is the only prize which
places children's books alongside adult books in this way.
The Costa Book Awards started life in 1971 as the Whitbread
Literary Awards. From 1985 they were known as the Whitbread Book
Awards until 2006, when Costa Coffee took over ownership.
To find out more about The Costa Book Awards, please visit their
website at:
From the Library catalogue
The following link will take you directly into the library
catalogue. Once in the catalogue you will see a link in the
Recommended Reading box to a list of previous winners for this
award. If you wish to reserve an item in the catalogue you will
need to first log in as a library member using your User ID and
PIN.
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