This year's Category Award Winners are:
Costa Children's Book Award Winner
Patrick Ness - The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, Book Two)
Costa Novel Award Winner
Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
Costa First Novel Award Winner
Raphael Selbourne - Beauty
Costa Biography Award Winner
Graham Farmelo - The Strangest Man
Costa Poetry Award Winner
Christopher Reid - A Scattering
Each category-winning author receives £5,000. The 2009 Costa Book of the Year will be announced on Tuesday 26 January 2010.
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