The Costa (formally Whitbread) awards

1. The destiny waltz by Gerda Charles

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1971 Best Novel award

2. MERCIAN HYMNS by GEOFFREY HILL

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1971 award for poetry

3. The Bird of Night by Susan Hill

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1972 winner for best novel

4. The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden

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1972 award for best children's book

5. The Chip-Chip Gatherers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Shiva Naipaul

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1973 award for best novel

6. CB: A life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman by John Wilson

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1973 winner for best biography

7. The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast by William Plomer

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1973 award for best children's book

8. The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (Penguin Books) by Iris Murdoch

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1974 award for best novel

9. Poor Dear Brendan by Andrew Boyle

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1974 award for best biography

10. How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen by Russell Hoban

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1974 award for best children's book (tie)

11. The Emperor's Winding Sheet by Jill Paton Walsh

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1974 award for best children's novel

12. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft: Revised Edition by Claire Tomalin

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1974 award for best first novel

13. Docherty (Coronet Books) by William McIlvanney

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1975 award for best first novel

14. In Our Infancy: An Autobiography, 1882-1912 by Helen Corke

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1975 award for best autobiography

15. Improbable Puritan by Ruth Spalding

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1975 award for best first book

16. The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor

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1976 award for best novel

17. Elizabeth Gaskell by Winifred Gerin

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1976 award for best biography

18. A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively

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1976 award for best children's book

19. Injury Time (Albert Campion Mysteries) by Beryl Bainbridge

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1977 award for best novel

20. Mary Curzon by Nigel Nicolson

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1977 award for best biography

21. No End to Yesterday by Shelagh Macdonald

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1977 award for best children's book

22. Picture Palace by Paul Theroux

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1978 award for best novel

23. Lloyd George: The People's Champion, 1902-1911 by John Grigg

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1978 award for best biography

24. The Battle of Bubble & Squeak by Philippa Pearce

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1978 award for best children's book

25. The Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston

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1979 award for best novel

26. About Time 1918-1939 by Penelope Mortimer

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1979 award for best autobiography

27. Tulku by Peter Dickinson

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1970 award for best children's book

28. How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge

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1980 winner for best novel

29. On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson the Diarist by David Newsome

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1980 award for best biography

30. John Diamond by Leon Garfield

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1980 award for best children's book

31. Silver's City by Maurice Leitch

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1981 award for best novel

32. Monty: The Making of a General : 1887-1942 by Nigel Hamilton

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1981 award for best biography

33. The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam

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1981 award for best children's book

34. A Good Man in Africa: A Novel by William Boyd

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1981 award for best first novel

35. Young Shoulders (M-Books) by John Wain

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1982 award for best novel

36. Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw

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1982 award for best biography

37. The Song Of Pentecost by W J Corbett

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1982 award for best children's book

38. On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin

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1982 award forbest first novel

39. Fools of Fortune (Penguin Classics) by William Trevor

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1983 award for best novel

40. Vita the Life of Vita Sackville West by Victoria Glendinning

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1983 award for best biography (tie)

41. King George V by Kenneth Rose

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1983 award for best biography (tie)

42. The Witches by Roald Dahl

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1983 award for best children's book

43. Flying to Nowhere by John G. Fuller

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1983 award for best first novel

44. Kruger's Alp by Christopher Hope

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1984 winner for best novel

45. T.S. Eliot: A Life by Peter Ackroyd

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1984 award for best biography

46. The Queen of the Pharisees' Children by Barbara Willard

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1984 award for best children's book

47. A Parish of Rich Women by James Buchan

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1984 winner for best first novel

48. Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

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1985 award for best novel

49. The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton 1940-1945 by Ben Pimlott

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1985 award for best biography

50. The Nature Of The Beast by Janni Howker

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1985 award for best children's book

51. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

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1985 award for best first novel

52. Elegies by Douglas Dunn

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1985 award for best book of poetry

53. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

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1986 award for best novel

54. Gilbert White: A Biography of the Author of The Natural History of Selborne by Richard Mabey

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1986 award for best biography

55. Cascades - "The Coal House" (Collins Cascades) by Andrew Taylor

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1986 award for best children's book

56. Continent by Jim Crace

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1986 award for best first novel

57. Stet by Peter Reading

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1986 award for best book of poetry

58. The Child in Time by Ian Mcewan

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1987 award for best novel

59. Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan

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1987 award for best biography

60. A Little Lower Than the Angels by Geraldine McCaughrean

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1987 award for best children's book

61. The Other Garden by Francis Wyndham

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1987 award for best first novel

62. The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney

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1987 award for best book of poetry

63. The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Salman Rushdie

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1988 award for best novel

64. Tolstoy: A Biography by A. N. Wilson

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1988 award for best biography

65. Awaiting Developments by Judy Allen

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1988 award for best cildren's book

66. Comforts of Madness, The by Paul Sayer

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1988 award for best first novel

67. THE AUTOMATIC ORACLE by Peter Porter

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1988 award for best book of poetry

68. The Chymical Wedding (Picador Books) by Lindsay Clarke

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1989 award for best novel

69. Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Richard Holmes

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1989 award for best biography

70. Why Weeps the Brogan? by Hugh Scott

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1989 award for best children's book

71. Gerontius by James Hamilton-Paterson

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1989 award for best first novel

72. Shibboleth (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Michael Donaghy

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1989 award for best book of poetry

73. Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley

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1990 award for best novel

74. A.A. Milne: His Life by Ann Thwaite

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1990 award for best biography

75. AK (Laurel-Leaf Books) by Peter Dickinson

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1990 award for best children's book

76. The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

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1990 award for best first novel

77. Daddy, Daddy by Paul Durcan

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1990 award for best book of poetry

78. Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam

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1991 award for best novel

79. A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson

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1991 award for best biography

80. Harvey Angell by Diana Hendry

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1991 award for best children's book

81. Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn

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1991 award for best first novel

82. Gorse Fires by Michael Longley

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1991 award for best book of poetry

83. Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

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1992 award for best novel

84. Trollope by Victoria Glendinning

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1992 award for best biography

85. The Great Elephant Chase by Gillian Cross

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1992 award for best children's book

86. Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington

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1992 award for best first novel

87. The Gaze of the Gorgon by Tony Harrison

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1992 award for best book of poetry

88. Theory of War by Joan Brady

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1993 award for best novel

89. Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion

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1993 award for best biography

90. Flour Babies by Anne Fine

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1993 award for best children's book

91. Saving Agnes: A Novel by Rachel Cusk

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1993 award for best first novel

92. Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy

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1993 award for best book of poetry

93. Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

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1994 award for best novel

94. The Married Man by Brenda Maddox

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1994 award for best biography

95. Gold Dust by Geraldine McCaughrean

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1994 award for best children's book

96. The Longest Memory by Fred D'Aguiar

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1994 award for best first novel

97. Out of Danger: Poems by James Fenton

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1994 award for best book of poetry

98. The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie

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1995 award for best novel

99. Gladstone: A Biography by Roy Jenkins

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1995 award for best biography

100. The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo

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1995 award for bet children's book

101. Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel by Kate Atkinson

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1995 award for best first novel

102. Gunpowder by Bernard O'Donoghue

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1995 award for best book of poetry

103. Every Man for Himself (Bainbridge, Beryl) by Beryl Bainbridge

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1996 award for best novel

104. Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch

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1996 award for best biography

105. The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel by John Lanchester

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1996 award for best first novel

106. The Spirit Level: Poems by Seamus Heaney

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1996 award for best book of poetry

107. The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine

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1996 award for best children's book

108. Quarantine: A Novel by Jim Crace

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1997 award for best novel

109. Victor Hugo by Graham Robb

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1997 award for best biography

110. The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville

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1997 award for best first novel

111. Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid (Faber Plays) by Ted Hughes

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1997 award for best book of poetry

112. Aquila (New Longman Literature) by Andrew Norriss

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1997 award for best children's book

113. Leading the Cheers: A Novel by Justin Cartwright

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1998 award for best novel

114. Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Amanda Foreman

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1998 award for best biography

115. The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden

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1998 award for best first novel

116. Birthday Letters: Poems by Ted Hughes

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1998 award for best book of poetry

117. Skellig by David Almond

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1998 award for best children's book

118. Music & Silence by Rose Tremain

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1999 award for best novel

119. Berlioz: Vol 2 by David Cairns

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1999 award for best biography

120. White City Blue by Tim Lott

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1999 award for best first novel

121. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition) by

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1999 award for best book of poetry

122. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.K. Rowling

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1999 award for best children's book

123. English Passengers: A Novel by Matthew Kneale

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2000 award for best novel

124. Bad Blood: A Memoir by Lorna Sage

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2000 award for best biograpghy

125. White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith

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2000 award for best first novel

126. Asylum Dance, The by John Burnside

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2000 award for best book of poetry

127. Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin

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2000 award for best children's book

128. Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate

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2001 award for best novel

129. Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe by Diana Souhami

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2001 award for best biography

130. Something Like a House by Sid Smith

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2001 award for best first novel

131. Bunny by Selima Hill

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2001 award for best book of poetry

132. The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) by Philip Pullman

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2001 award for best children's book

133. Spies: A Novel by Michael Frayn

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2002 award for best novel

134. Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin

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2002 award for best biography

135. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

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2002 award for best first novel

136. The Ice Age: A Collection of Poems by Paul Farley

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2002 award for best book of poetry

137. Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay

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2002 award for best children's book

138. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

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2003 award for best novel

139. Orwell: The Life by D. J. Taylor

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2003 award for best biography

140. Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death (Man Booker Prize) by D. B. C. Pierre

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2003 award for best first novel

141. Landing Light: Poems by Don Paterson

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2003 award for best book of poetry

142. The Fire-Eaters (Costa Children's Book Award (Awards)) by David Almond

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2003 award for best children's book

143. Small Island: A Novel by Andrea Levy

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2004 award for best novel

144. My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy

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2004 award for best biography

145. Eve Green: A Novel by Susan Fletcher

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2004 award for best first novel

146. Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts

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2004 award for best book of poetry

147. Not the End of the World by Geraldine Mccaughrean

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2004 award for best children's book

148. The Accidental by Ali Smith

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2005 award for best novel

149. Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling

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2005 award for best biography

150. The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw

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2005 award for best first novel

151. The New Policeman (Costa Children's Book Award (Awards)) by Kate Thompson

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2005 award for best children's book

152. Restless: A Novel by William Boyd

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2006 award for best novel

153. Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood by Brian Thompson

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2006 award for best biography

154. The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel by Stef Penney

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2006 award for best first novel

155. Letter to Patience by John Haynes

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2006 award for best book of poetry

156. Set In Stone (Costa Children's Book Award (Awards)) by Linda Newbery

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2006 award for best children's book

157. Set In Stone (Costa Children's Book Award (Awards)) by Linda Newbery

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2006 award for best children's book

158. Day: A novel by A.L. Kennedy

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2007 award for best novel

159. Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

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2007 award for best biography

160. What Was Lost: A Novel by Catherine O'Flynn

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2007 award for best first novel

161. Tilt by Jean Sprackland

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2007 award for best book of poetry

162. The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley

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2007 award for best children's book

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The Costa (Whitbread) Awards are administered by the Booksellers Association of Great Britian and Ireland. There are 5 Awards each year- best novel, best first novel, best biography, best book of poems, and best children's novel.

Category: Award Lists - e.g. 'Booker Prize Winners'

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