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Costa Novel Award

The Costa Novel Award is given to the best novel of the year.

2010 winner:

Author 

Title 

Maggie O'Farrell

The Hand that First Held Mine 

Past winners:

Year  

Author 

Title 

1980

David Lodge

How Far Can You Go?

1981

Maurice Leitch

Silver's City

1982

John Wain

Young Shoulders

1983

William Trevor

Fools of Fortune

1984

Christopher Hope

Kruger's Alp

1985

Peter Ackroyd

Hawksmoor

1986

Kazuo Ishiguro

An Artist of the Floating World

1987

Ian McEwan

The Child in Time

1988

Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses

1989

Lindsay Clarke

The Chymical Wedding

1990

Nicholas Mosley

Hopeful Monsters

1991

Jane Gardam

The Queen of the Tambourine

1992

Alasdair Gray

Poor Things

1993

Joan Brady

Theory of War

1994

William Trevor

Felicia's Journey

1995

Salman Rushdie

The Moor's Last Sigh

1996

Beryl Bainbridge

Every Man for Himself

1997

Jim Crace

Quarantine

1998

Justin Cartwright

Leading the Cheers

1999

Rose Tremain

Music and Silence

2000

Matthew Kneale

English Passengers

2001

Patrick Neate

Twelve Bar Blues

2002

Michael Frayn

Spies

2003

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

2004

Andrea Levy

Small Island

2005

Ali Smith

The Accidental

2006

William Boyd

Restless

2007

A. L. Kennedy

Day

2008

Sebastian Barry

The Secret Scripture

2009 

Colm Toibin

Brooklyn

Thursday, May 17, 2012


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