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Costa Novel Award

2021
Winner
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

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The High House by Jessie Greengrass
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

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2020
Winner

The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey

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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Peace Talks by Tim Finch
The Less Dead by Denise Mina
2019
Winner
Middle England by Jonathan Coe

Shortlist

Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Confession with Blue Horses by Sophie Hardach
Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor
2018
Winner
Normal People by Sally Rooney

Shortlist
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman
From A Low And Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
2017
Winner
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

Shortlist
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
2016
Winner
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

Shortlist
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
2015
Winner
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
 
Shortlist
The Green Road by Anne Enright
A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
At Hawthorne Time by Melissa Harrison
2014
Winner
How to be Both by Ali Smith

Shortlist
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
House of Ashes by Monique Roffey
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
2013
Winner
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Shortlist
Unexpected Lessons in Love by Bernardine Bishop
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
2012
Winner
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
 
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Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May
The Heart Broke In by James Meek
Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart
2011
Winner
Pure by Andrew Miller
 
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
A Summer of Drowning by John Burnside
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
2010
Winner
The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
 
Shortlist
Whatever you Love by Louise Doughty
The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
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2009
Winner
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
 
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Family Album by Penelope Lively
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson
2008
Winner
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
 
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The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis de Bernières
Trauma by Patrick McGrath
2007
Winner
Day by AL Kennedy
 
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Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett
Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
2006
Winner
Restless by William Boyd

Shortlist
Saving Caravaggio by Neil Griffiths
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

Whitbread Novel Award

2005
Winner
The Accidental by Ali Smith

Shortlist
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
The Ballad of Lee Cotton by Christopher Wilson
2004
Winner
Small Island by Andrea Levy
 
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Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2003
Winner
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
 
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The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk
Heligoland by Shena Mackay
Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido
2002
Winner
Spies by Michael Frayn
 
Shortlist
White Lightning by Justin Cartwright
Rumours of a Hurricane by by Tim Lott
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
2001
Winner
Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate
 
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The Siege by Helen Dunmore
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Oxygen by Andrew Miller
2000
Winner
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
 
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Fred & Edie by Jill Dawson
What Are You Like? by Anne Enright
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
1999
Winner
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
 
Shortlist
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Headlong by Michael Frayn
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
1998
Winner
Leading the Cheers by Justin Cartwright
 
Shortlist
The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett
The Travelling Hornplayer by Barbara Trapido
1997
Winner
Quarantine by Jim Crace
 
Shortlist
The Untouchable by John Banville
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Bleeding London by Geoff Nicholson
1996
Winner
Every Man For Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
 
Shortlist
Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard
Mr Clive & Mr Page by Neil Bartlett
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
Last Orders by Graham Swift
Worst Fears by Fay Weldon
1995
Winner
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
 
Shortlist
The Information by Martin Amis
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
1994
Winner
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
1993
Winner
Theory of War by Joan Brady
1992
Winner
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
1991
Winner
The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam
1990
Winner
Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley
1989
Winner
The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke
1988
Winner
Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
1987
Winner
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
1986
Winner
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
1985
Winner
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
1984
Winner
Kruger's Alp by Christopher Hope
1983
Winner
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
1982
Winner
Young Shoulders by John Wain
1981
Winner
Silver City by Maurice Leitch
1980
Winner
How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge
1979
Winner
The Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston
1978
Winner
Picture Palace by Paul Theroux
1977
Winner
Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge
1976
Winner
The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
1975
Winner
Docherty by William McIlvanney
1974
Winner
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch
1973
Winner
The Chip Chip Gatherers by Shiva Naipaul
1972
Winner
The Bird of Night by Susan Hill
1971
Winner
The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles
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