Costa Book of the Year 2020 The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
2019 The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather 2018 The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es 2017 Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore
2016 Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
2015 The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
2014 H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
2013 The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
2012 Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2011 Pure by Andrew Miller
2010 Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
2009 A Scattering by Christopher Reid
2008 The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
2007 Day by AL Kennedy
2006 The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Whitbread Book of the Year 2005 Matisse: The Master by Hilary Spurling
2004 Small Island by Andrea Levy
2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
2002 Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
2001 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
2000 English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
1999 Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
1998 Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
1997 Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
1996 The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney
1995 Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
1994 Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
1993 Theory of War by Joan Brady
1992 Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington
1991 A Life of Picasso by John Richardson
1990 Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley
1989 Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes
1988 The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer
1987 Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan
1986 An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro