Costa Book Awards winner
The winner of the 2009 Costa Book of the Year Award is A Scattering by Christopher Reid.
Reid's latest collection is dedicated to the memory of his wife, the actor Lucinda Gane (whom readers of the right age will remember as the science teacher Miss Mooney in Grange Hill).
"These are calm, careful, coolly self-contained poems, but they invite the reader in without reserve. If there's a sense of something being worked out here, Reid's engagement with the process of bereavement, as both husband and poet, only helps to prove the aptness of Donne's dictum, that "Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, / For he tames it that fetters it in verse".
The Guardian
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First novel shortlist winner
Beauty
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| Published: | 03/09/2009 |
| Publisher: | Tindal Street Press |
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Biography shortlist winner
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
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| Published: | 24/12/2009 |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
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Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to... Read more
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Children's shortlist winner
The Ask and the Answer
by Patrick Ness
| Format: | Paperback 536 pages |
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| Published: | 07/09/2009 |
| Publisher: | Walker Books Ltd |
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We were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we... Read more
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Fiction shortlist winner
Brooklyn
| Format: | Paperback 256 pages |
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| Published: | 29/09/2009 |
| Publisher: | Viking |
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In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a... Read more
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