Costa Book Awards 2011 - Book of the Year
25.01.12: The Costa Book of the Year 2011 is Pure by Andrew Miller
Pure is set in 1785 and follows the story of a young engineer, Jean-Baptiste Baratte, - charged with demolishing Paris's oldest cemetery and removing the corpses.
Geordie Greig, editor of the London Evening Standard, and chair of the judges, said the prize, which chooses the best overall book from five categories - novel, biography, poetry, children's novel and first novel - was one which came "with a sense of impossibility about it. You're not just comparing apples and oranges, it feels like you're comparing bananas and chicken curry. It makes the task difficult and interesting."
Costa Book Award 2011 - category winners
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann's new collection -- her first since...
£8.99
RRP: £14.99
You save: £6.00
Now All Roads Lead to France by Matthew Hollis
Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and...
£5.99
RRP: £9.99
You save: £4.00
Blood Red Road by Moira Young
I ain't afeared of nuthin When Saba's...
£6.39
RRP: £7.99
You save: £1.60
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson
WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2011....
£6.09
RRP: £7.99
You save: £1.90
Costa Novel Award 2011 - shortlist
The Sense of an Ending
£6.49
RRP: £12.99
You save: £6.50
A Summer of Drowning
£12.79
RRP: £16.99
You save: £4.20
Pure
£5.84
RRP: £8.99
You save: £3.15
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
£12.79
RRP: £16.99
You save: £4.20
Costa Children's Award 2011 - shortlist
Flip
£5.99
RRP: £7.99
You save: £2.00
The Unforgotten Coat
£7.10
RRP: £10.00
You save: £2.90
Small Change for Stuart
£8.29
RRP: £10.99
You save: £2.70
Blood Red Road
£6.39
RRP: £7.99
You save: £1.60
Costa First Novel Award 2011 - shortlist
The City of Bohane
£8.99
RRP: £12.99
You save: £4.00
The Last Hundred Days
£7.19
RRP: £8.99
You save: £1.80
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away
£6.09
RRP: £7.99
You save: £1.90
Pao
£9.69
RRP: £11.99
You save: £2.30
Costa Biography Award 2011 - shortlist
Thin Paths
£13.49
RRP: £17.99
You save: £4.50
Henry's Demons
£12.79
RRP: £16.99
You save: £4.20
Now All Roads Lead to France
£12.10
RRP: £20.00
You save: £7.90
