Awards are given in five categories (novel, first novel, poetry, biography, and children’s); in addition, since 1985 one of these winners has been chosen for the Costa Book of the Year.A prize purse of £50,000 is shared among the winners.

26th November 2019 - Category Shortlists Announced.

Costa Book Awards 2019 winners ... where she won the Michael Holroyd Prize. 2019 Costa Book Awards Key Dates.

The Costas are intended to reward the most enjoyable book in each category, with the winner of the overall £30,000 book of the year prize to be announced on 28 January.

The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather (WH Allen). have this evening (January 7) announced their five category winners. The five category winners (First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book) are announced in early January, honoring books published the previous year. Since 1971 the Costa Book Awards have delighted and dazzled readers by picking the most enjoyable books published each year for five category shortlists - First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book. Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017 After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. The 2019 Costa Book of the Year and Biography Winner: The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather. Costa is a UK based coffee shop chain owned by Whitbread Plc. Since 1971 the Costa Book Awards have delighted and dazzled readers by picking the most enjoyable books published each year for five category shortlists - First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book. S ally Rooney has become the youngest author to win the Costa Novel Award, four months after she was omitted from the Booker Prize shortlist..

The 2019 winner was An American Marriage by … From these category winners the overall Costa … Although announced tonight, they are referred to as the program’s 2018 awards. ... category winners: The Costa Book Awards is one of the UK's most prestigious and popular literary prizes and recognises some of t The Costa Book Awards is one of the UK's most prestigious and popular literary prizes and recognises some of the most enjoyable books of … In 2012, we launched the Costa Short Story Award for published and unpublished authors, inviting passionate writers to submit their stories via this website. January 2020 - Category Winners Announced. ... were selected from 701 entries and their books are now eligible for the ultimate prize, the 2019 Costa … Costa Coffee has today announced the winners across the five categories of its Costa Book Awards for 2019. Costa Book Awards 2019 winners revealed ... were selected from 701 entries and their books are now eligible for the ultimate prize, the 2019 Costa Book of the Year, to be announced on January 28th The Costa is a program that selects a winner in each of five categories, followed by an overall winner.