Costa Book Award Best Novel

 

Selezione2012

Bring Up the Bodies

Man Booker Prize 2012, Costa Book Award Best Novel 2012

di Hilary Mantel

Winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize

Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Award

The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of...


Selezione2010

The Hand That First Held Mine

Costa Book Award Best Novel 2010

di Maggie O'farrell

Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself.

Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who wears...


Selezione2009

Brooklyn: A Novel

Costa Book Award Best Novel 2009

di Colm Toibin

Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.

Eilis...


Selezione2006

Restless

Costa Book Award Best Novel 2006

di William Boyd

It is Paris, 1939. Twenty-eight year old Eva Delectorskaya is at the funeral of her beloved younger brother. Standing among her family and friends she notices a stranger. Lucas Romer is a patrician looking Englishman...


Selezione2005

The Accidental

Costa Book Award Best Novel 2005

di Ali Smith

The Accidental is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the...


Selezione2004

Small Island

Women's Prize for Fiction 2004, Costa Book Award Best Novel 2004

di Andrea Levy

Winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction

A Picador Original Trade Paperback

Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband,...


Selezione2000

English Passengers: A Novel

Costa Book Award Best Novel 2000

di Matthew Kneale

In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter....