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The Costa Book Award for best book of the year can be found below along with a list of all previous winners. We also have links to the winners of  the other Costa Book Awards, and links to dozens of other book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees. 

The Costa Book Awards are given for the best works of fiction and nonfiction written by residents of Great Britain.

 

The latest winner of the Costa Book Award for the Book of the Year

2007 - Day by A. L. Kennedy  (2008 Award will be announced early 2009)

 

All winners of the Costa Book Award for Best Book of the Year

1985 - Elegies by Douglas Dunn

 

1986 - An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

 

1987 - Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan

 

1988 - The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer

 

1989 - Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes

 

1990 - Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley

 

1991 - A Life of Picasso by John Richardson

 

1992 - Swing Hammer Swing by Jeff Torrington

 

1993 - Theory of War by Joan Brady

 

1994 - Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

 

1995 - Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

 

1996 - The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney

 

1997 - Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes

 

1998 - Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

 

1999 - Beowulf by Seamus Heaney

 

2000 - English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

 

2001 - The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

 

2002 - Samuel Pepys: The Enequalled Self by Claire Tomalin

 

2003 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

 

2004 - Small Island by Andrea Levy

 

2005 - Matisse: The Master by Hilary Spurling

 

2006 - The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

 

2007 - Day by A. L. Kennedy

 

2008 - Award will be announced early 2009

 

 

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