2011 Costa Book Awards

The shortlists were announced on 16 November 2011. The winners in each category will be announced in January 2012.

Book of the Year

Winner:

• TBD

Children's Book

Winner:

• Moira Young, Blood Red Road

Shortlist:

• Martyn Bedford, Flip
• Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Unforgotten Coat
• Lissa Evans Small, Change for Stuart

First Novel

Winner:

• Christie Watson, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away

Shortlist:

• Kevin Barry, City of Bohane
• Patrick McGuinness, The Last Hundred Days
• Kerry Young, Pao

Novel

Winner:

• Andrew Miller, Pure

Shortlist:

• Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
• John Burnside, A Summer of Drowning
• Louisa Young, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You

Biography

Winner:

• Matthew Hollis, Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

Shortlist:

• Julia Blackburn, Thin Paths: Journeys In and Around an Italian Mountain Village
• Patrick Cockburn & Henry Cockburn, Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s Story
• Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens: A Life

Poetry

Winner:

• Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees

Shortlist:

• David Harsent, Night
• Jackie Kay, Fiere
• Sean O’Brien, November