2012 Costa Book Awards shortlists

The shortlist have been announced for the 2012 Costa Book Awards. There are five categories: First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book. The winner in each category receives £5,000, and then one of the five winning books is selected as the overall Costa Book of the Year, receiving a further £30,000. The Category winners will be announced on 3 January 2013, and the Costa Book of the Year awards presentation ceremony will be on Tuesday 29th January 2013.
Costa Children's Book Award shortlist:
Sally Gardner - Maggot Moon
Diana Hendry - The Seeing
Hayley Long - What's Up with Jody Barton?
Dave Shelton - A Boy and a Bear in a Boat
Costa Novel Award shortlist
Hilary Mantel - Bring up the Bodies
Stephen May - Life! Death! Prizes!
James Meek - The Heart Broke In
Joff Winterhart - Days of the Bagnold Summer
Costa First Novel Award shortlist
J W Ironmonger - The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder
Jess Richards - Snake Ropes
Francesca Segal - The Innocents
Benjamin Wood - The Bellwether Revivals
Costa Biography Award shortlist
Artemis Cooper - Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure
Selina Guinness - The Crocodile by the Door: The Story of a House, a
Farm and a Family
Kate Hubbard - Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot - Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
Costa Poetry Award shortlist
Sean Borodale - Bee Journal
Julia Copus - The World's Two Smallest Humans
Selima Hill - People Who Like Meatballs
Kathleen Jamie - The Overhaul
Two graphic novels are included in the nominations: Joff Winterhart’s Days of the Bagnold Summer and Dotter of her Father’s Eyes by Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot.

Red House Children’s Book Award shortlist

The Red House Children’s Book Award is the only national book award voted for entirely by children. Children have been reading and reviewing books all year long and these are their favourite ten which make up the 2013 Shortlist in three categories.

Older Readers:
Eight Keys by Suzanne Lafleur
The Medusa Project: Hit Squad by Sophie McKenzie
The Lorien Legacies: The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore

Younger Readers:
Gangsta Granny by David Walliams
The World of Norm: May Contain Nuts by Jonathan Meres
Operation Eiffel Tower by Elen Caldecott

Younger children::
Can You See Sassoon? by Sam Usher
Dog Loves Drawing by Louise Yates
The Spooky Spooky House by Andrew Weale
Welcome to Alien School by Caryl Hart

Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2012

Dark Lord: Teenage Years by Jamie Thomson won the prize for the funniest book for children aged seven to fourteen.
The other books on the 7-14 shortlist were:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Dragonsitter by Josh Lacey
Socks Are Not Enoughby Mark Lowery
Goblinsby Philip Reeve
Gangsta Granny by David Walliams

My Big Shouting Day by author/illustrator Rebecca Patterson was the winner in the six and under category.
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