The 2007 Costa Book Awards shortlist. Winners in the five categories will be announced on Thursday 3rd January 2008.
Novel Award shortlist
Neil Bartlett for Skin Lane (Serpent’s Tail) A.L. Kennedy for Day (Jonathan Cape) Rupert Thomson for Death of a Murderer (Bloomsbury) Rose Tremain for The Road Home (Chatto & Windus)
First Novel Award shortlist
Tahmima Anam for A Golden Age (John Murray) Catherine O’Flynn for What Was Lost (Tindal Street Press) Nikita Lalwani for Gifted (Viking) Roma Tearne for Mosquito (HarperPress)
Biography Award shortlist
Julie Kavanagh for Rudolf Nureyev (Fig Tree) Ben Macintyre for Agent ZigZag (Bloomsbury) Simon Sebag Montefiore for Young Stalin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Michael Simkins for Fatty Batter (Ebury Press)
Poetry Award shortlist
Ian Duhig for The Speed of Dark (Picador) John Fuller for The Space of Joy (Chatto & Windus) Daljit Nagra for Look We Have Coming to Dover! (Faber and Faber) Jean Sprackland for Tilt (Cape Poetry)
Children’s Book Award shortlist
Ann Kelley for The Bower Bird (Luath Press Limited) Elizabeth Laird for Crusade (Macmillan Children’s Books) Meg Rosoff for What I Was (Puffin Books) Marcus Sedgwick for Blood Red Snow White (Orion Children’s Books)
