Here is the shortlist for the 2008 Costa Awards, the winners of the £5,000 prize in each of the five categories will be announced on January 6th.
2008 Costa novel award shortlist
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis de Bernières
Trauma by Patrick McGrath
2008 Costa first novel award shortlist
The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Inside the Whale by Jennie Rooney
2008 Costa biography award shortlist
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
Bloomsbury Ballerina by Judith Mackrell
If You Don’t Know Me By Now by Sathnam Sanghera
Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager
2008 Costa poetry award shortlist
Ciaran Carson for For All We Know
Adam Foulds for The Broken Word
Kathryn Simmonds for Sunday at the Skin Launderette
Greta Stoddart for Salvation Jane
2008 Costa children’s book award shortlist
Keith Gray for Ostrich Boys
Saci Lloyd for The Carbon Diaries 2015
Michelle Magorian for Just Henry
Jenny Valentine for Broken Soup