Costa Book Award Winners

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Winners

	The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy 4.04 avg rating — 55 ratings Costa Book Award for Poetry (2011)	My rating:
	Pure by Andrew Miller 3.62 avg rating — 643 ratings Costa Book Award for Novel; 2011 Costa Book of the Year (2011)	My rating:
	Blood Red Road (Dust Lands, #1) by Moira Young (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 8,641 ratings Costa Book Award for Children's Book (2011)	My rating:
	Now All Roads Lead To France by Matthew Hollis 3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings Costa Book Award for Biography (2011)	My rating:
	Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away by Christie Watson (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 542 ratings Costa Book Award for First Novel (2011)	My rating:
	Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott 3.72 avg rating — 58 ratings Costa Book Award for Poetry; 2010 Costa Book of the Year (2010)	My rating:
	The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell 3.77 avg rating — 2,527 ratings Costa Book Award for Novel (2010)	My rating:
	The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal 3.78 avg rating — 3,335 ratings Costa Book Award for Biography (2010)	My rating:
	Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai 3.33 avg rating — 124 ratings Costa Book Award for First Novel (2010)	My rating:
	Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace 3.84 avg rating — 220 ratings Costa Book Award for Children's Book (2010)	My rating:
	Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 3.56 avg rating — 9,223 ratings Costa Book Award for Novel (2009)	My rating:
	Beauty by Raphael Selbourne 3.50 avg rating — 70 ratings Costa Book Award for First Novel (2009)	My rating:
	A Scattering by Christopher Reid 4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings Costa Book Award for Poetry; 2009 Costa Book of the Year (2009)	My rating:
	The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo 4.05 avg rating — 476 ratings Costa Book Award for Biography (2009)	My rating:
	The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2) by Patrick Ness 4.26 avg rating — 8,925 ratings Costa Book Award for Children's Book (2009)	My rating:
	Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill 3.55 avg rating — 549 ratings Costa Book Award for Biography (2008)	My rating:
	Just Henry by Michelle Magorian 4.05 avg rating — 139 ratings Costa Book Award for Children's Book (2008)	My rating:
	The Outcast by Sadie Jones 3.50 avg rating — 2,009 ratings Costa Book Award for First Novel (2008)	My rating:
	The Broken Word by Adam Foulds 3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings Costa Book Award for Poetry (2008)	My rating:
	The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry 3.69 avg rating — 4,256 ratings Costa Book Award for Novel; 2008 Costa Book of the Year (2008)	My rating:
	Day by A.L. Kennedy 3.47 avg rating — 195 ratings Costa Book Award for Novel; 2007 Costa Book of the Year (2007)	My rating:
	What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn 3.45 avg rating — 2,334 ratings Costa Book Award for First Novel (2007)	My rating:
	The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings Costa Book Award for Children's Book (2007)	My rating:
	Tilt by Jean Sprackland 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings Costa Book Award for Poetry (2007)	My rating:
	Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore 4.06 avg rating — 726 ratings Costa Book Award for Biography (2007)	My rating:
	Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood by Brian Thompson 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings Costa Book Award for Biography (2006)	My rating:
	Restless by William Boyd 3.74 avg rating — 2,686 ratings Costa Book Award for Novel (2006)	My rating:
	Set in Stone by Linda Newbery 3.36 avg rating — 228 ratings Costa Book Award for Children's Book (2006)	My rating:
	Letter to Patience by John Haynes 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings Costa Book Award for Poetry (2006)	My rating:
	The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney 3.66 avg rating — 3,649 ratings Costa Book Award for First Novel; 2006 Costa Book of the Year (2006)	My rating: