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Latest News | | Costa Book Awards | | |
| | * Sebastian Barry triumphs in the Costa Novel Award category for The Secret Scripture
* The Outcast, the acclaimed debut by Sadie Jones, takes the Costa First Novel Award
* Nonagenarian and oldest-ever category-winning author Diana Athill collects the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End
Costa today announced the Costa Book Awards 2008 winners in the Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book categories
The five successful authors who will now compete for the 2008 Costa Book of the Year are:
Sadie Jones, whose bestselling debut novel, The Outcast, scoops the First Novel Award
Sebastian Barry, who triumphs in the Novel Award category for The Secret Scripture after missing out on the Man Booker
Diana Athill, who wins the Costa Biography Award for her memoir, Somewhere Towards the End |
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| | William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award | | |
| | FORMER England batsman, Marcus Trescothick's autobiography, 'Coming Back To Me', has won the world's most valuable sportswriting prize, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year
Trescothick, and his co-writer, Peter Hayter collected £20,000; a £2000 William Hill bet and a hand-bound copy of the book by master binder David Sellars, for winning the 20th annual William Hill Sports Book of the Year, announced by judge, John Inverdale, at Waterstones, Piccadilly, London |
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