The Costa Book of the Year Awards 2021 Category Winners

Once more reflecting both critical opinion and popular taste, this year’s Costa Book Awards category winners represent a wonderful breadth of topics. From an exquisitely wrought dissection of love and relationships between two Black British artists to an inspired children’s verse novel about friendship and immigration, discover the brilliant titles in competition for the overall winner of 2021 Costa Book of the Year, which will be announced on Tuesday 1 February 2022.

The Costa Novel Award 2021 Winner

Unsettled Ground

Claire Fuller

£8.99 £7.49

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In sharp yet sumptuous prose, Fuller paints a stunning portrait of two middle-aged twins whose carefully cultivated existence on the fringes of society begins to unravel following the death of their mother.

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Unsettled Ground

Claire Fuller

£14.99 £12.99

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The High House

Jessie Greengrass

£14.99 £12.99

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The Fortune Men

Nadifa Mohamed

£14.99

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The Island of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak

£14.99 £12.99

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The Costa First Novel Award 2021 Winner

Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson

£12.99 £9.99

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A tender and emotionally complex debut about the relationship between two young Black British artists, Open Water shines a light on the ways love and race can be interlinked in modern society.

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Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson

£8.99 £7.49

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Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson

£12.99 £9.99

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The Manningtree Witches

A. K. Blakemore

£8.99 £7.49

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Fault Lines

Emily Itami

£12.99

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The Stranding

Kate Sawyer

£14.99

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The Costa Biography Award 2021 Winner

Fall

John Preston

£9.99 £8.49

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The meteoric rise and ignominious fall of mogul and swindler Robert Maxwell told with irresistible pace and verve from the acclaimed author of A Very English Scandal.

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Consumed

Arifa Akbar

£16.99 £8.49

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The Moth and the Mountain

Ed Caesar

£10.99 £8.99

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Fall

John Preston

£9.99 £8.49

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Lea Ypi

£20.00

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The Costa Poetry Award 2021 Winner

The Kids

Hannah Lowe

£10.99

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A powerful exploration of time, growth, identity and negotiating an unknown future, The Kids draws lessons from both the poet’s experiences as a teacher in a London inner city school and her own childhood shaped by a completely different kind of age.

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All The Names Given

Raymond Antrobus

£10.99

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A Blood Condition

Kayo Chingonyi

£10.00

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Eat Or We Both Starve

Victoria Kennefick

£10.99

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The Kids

Hannah Lowe

£10.99

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The Costa Children's Book Award 2021 Winner

The Crossing

Manjeet Mann

£7.99 £6.99

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Bold, unique and life-affirming, The Crossing is a powerful verse novel about two teenagers from opposite worlds dealing with different kinds of loss as their paths unexpectedly entwine.