2006 Costa Book Awards
Encyclopedia
The Costa Book of the Year shortlist was announced on 10 January 2007 and the final results at a ceremony held on 7 February 2007.
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Book of the Year
- Stef PenneyStef PenneyStef Penney is a film-maker and writer.She grew up in the Scottish capital and turned to film-making after a degree in Philosophy and Theology from Bristol University. She made three short films before studying Film and TV at Bournemouth College of Art, and on graduation was selected for the...
, The Tenderness of Wolves
Children's Book
Winner:- Linda NewberyLinda NewberyLinda Newbery is a British author, who began writing as a young adult author but has now broadened her range to encompass all ages. Now a full-time writer, she published her first novel Run with the Hare in 1988, while still working as an English teacher in a comprehensive school.Linda is a regular...
, Set in StoneSet in Stone (novel)Set in Stone is a children's fantasy novel written by Linda Newbery. It won the Costa Children's Book of the Year Prize for 2006....
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- David AlmondDavid AlmondDavid Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...
, ClayClay (novel)Clay is a children's/young adult novel by David Almond, published in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.It was adapted for television in 2008, and aired on BBC One on March 30 2008.... - Julia GoldingJulia GoldingJulia Golding is a British novelist.Julia Golding grew up on the edge of Epping Forest. She originally read English at the University of Cambridge. She then joined the Foreign Office and worked in Poland...
, The Diamond of Drury LaneThe Diamond of Drury LaneThe Diamond of Drury Lane is a children's historical novel by Julia Golding which won the Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award in 2006. The book is set on 1 January 1790.-Plot:... - Meg RosoffMeg RosoffMeg Rosoff is an American author based in London since 1989. She is best known for her novel How I Live Now, which won 3 awards including the Guardian Award , Michael L. Printz Award , Branford Boase Award and was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread Awards. Her second novel, , won the prestigious ...
, Just in Case
First Novel
Winner:- Stef PenneyStef PenneyStef Penney is a film-maker and writer.She grew up in the Scottish capital and turned to film-making after a degree in Philosophy and Theology from Bristol University. She made three short films before studying Film and TV at Bournemouth College of Art, and on graduation was selected for the...
, The Tenderness of Wolves
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- Michael CoxMichael Cox (novelist)Michael Andrew Cox was an English biographer, novelist and musician.- Biography :Michael Cox was born on 30 August 1948 in Northamptonshire, England, where his two novels are largely set. He was the only child of a machinery manufacturer. Cox graduated from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge in...
, The Meaning of NightThe Meaning of NightThe Meaning of Night is the debut novel by author Michael Cox. Cox's book is a 600-page crime thriller novel set in Victorian England. It was one of four books picked for the shortlist for the Costa Book Awards prize for the debut novel of 2006, losing out to Stef Penney's The Tenderness of... - Marilyn Heward Mills, Cloth Girl
- James ScudamoreJames Scudamore (author)James Scudamore is an author. He grew up in Japan, Brazil and the UK, and is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford and of the University of East Anglia.-Books:...
, The Amnesia Clinic
Novel
Winner:- William BoydWilliam Boyd (writer)William Boyd, CBE is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.-Biography:Of Scottish descent, Boyd spent his early life in Ghana and Nigeria, in Africa...
, RestlessRestless (novel)Restless, an espionage novel by William Boyd, was published in 2006 and won the Costa Prize for fiction.The novel depicts the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother was recruited as a spy during World War II. Its intrigue may well be a function of the style of prose. The book...
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- Neil Griffiths, Saving Caravaggio
- Mark HaddonMark HaddonMark Haddon is an English novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.- Life and work :...
, A Spot of BotherA Spot of BotherA Spot of Bother is the second adult novel by Mark Haddon, who is best known for his prize-winning first novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time... - David MitchellDavid Mitchell (author)David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist. He has written five novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.- Biography :...
, Black Swan GreenBlack Swan GreenBlack Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman written by David Mitchell. It was published in April 2006 in the U.S. and May 2006 in the UK. The novel's thirteen chapters each represent one month—from January 1982 through January 1983—in the life of 13-year-old Worcestershire boy Jason...
Biography
Winner:- Brian Thompson, Keeping Mum
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- Maggie Fergusson, George Mackay Brown: The Life
- John Stubbs, Donne: A Reformed Soul
- Jo Tatchell, Nabeel's SongNabeel's SongNabeel's Song is the written memoir of the respected Iraqi poet Nabeel Yasin and his extended family.-Outline:Written by United Kingdom journalist Jo Tatchell this book details Nabeel Yasin, one of Iraq's most famous poets and currently a candidate for prime minister in his extraordinarily...
Poetry
Winner:- John Haynes, Letter to Patience
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- Vicki FeaverVicki FeaverVicki Feaver is an English poet. She studied music at Durham University and English at University College, London, and later worked as a lecturer and tutor in English and Creative Writing at University College, Chichester, where she is an Emeritus Professor.She now lives with her psychiatrist...
, The Book of Blood - Seamus HeaneySeamus HeaneySeamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
, District and CircleDistrict and CircleDistrict and Circle is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It was published in 2006 forty years after his debut, Death of a Naturalist, and was awarded the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize... - Hugo WilliamsHugo WilliamsHugo Williams is a British poet, journalist and travel writer. His full name is Hugh Mordaunt Vyner Williams He is the son of actor Hugh Williams and the model and actress Margaret Vyner, who co-wrote some upper-middle-class comedies in the late 1950s...
, Dear Room