The 2007 Costa Book Awards Shortlists have been announced. The winners of the five categories will be revealed on 22 January, and the overall winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2007.
The shortlists:
Costa Children's Book Award
* The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley
* Crusade by Elizabeth Laird
* What I Was by Meg Rosoff
* Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
Costa First Novel Award
* A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
* Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
* What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
* Mosquito by Roma Tearne
Costa Novel Award
* Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett
* Day by A.L. Kennedy
* Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
* The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Costa Poetry Award
* The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig
* The Space of Joy by John Fuller
* Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra
* Tilt by Jean Sprackland
Costa Biography Award
* Rudolf Nureyev by Julie Kavanagh
* Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre
* Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
* Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins
Three of the titles are by authors from Oxfordshire: poet John Fuller's The Space of Joy, the biography Rudolph Nureyev by the ballet critic Julie Kavanagh and Mosquito, a first novel by Roma Tearne.
http://www.costabookawards.com/awards/shortlist.aspx
