The Costa Book Awards category winners have been announced.
The Children's winner is Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell
The Fiction winner is Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The First Novel winner is The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
The Biography winner is The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Poetry winner is Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts.
Originally launched as the Whitbread Book Awards in 1971, the awards celebrate books published in the last year. Category winners each receive £5,000,and the overall winner is decided from these five winners, who will receive the £30,000 Costa Book of the Year 2013 Award on 28th January.
Winner: The Shock of the Fall by debut author and mental health nurse Nathan Filer won win the title of 2013 Costa Book of the Year.
