Costa Children's Book Award

Costa Children's Book Award
2017
Winner
The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

Shortlist
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans
The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

2016
Winner

The Bombs That Brought Us Together by Brian Conaghan

Shortlist
Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence
The Monstrous Child by Francesca Simon
Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford

2015
Winner

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge *

Shortlist
Sophie Someone by Hayley Long
An Island of Our Own by Sally Nicholls
Jessica's Ghost by Andrew Norriss

2014
Winner

Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders

Shortlist
Running Girl by Simon Mason
Listen to the Moon by Michael Morpurgo
The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick

2013
Winner

Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell

Shortlist
Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door by Ross Montgomery
The Hanged Man Rises by Sarah Naughton
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein

2012
Winner

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner

Shortlist
The Seeing by Diana Hendry
What’s Up With Jody Barton? by Hayley Long
A Boy and a Bear in a Boat Rhymes by Dave Shelton

2011
Winner

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

Shortlist
Flip by Martyn Bedford
The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans

2010

Winner
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace

Shortlist
Flyaway by Lucy Christopher
Annexed by Sharon Dogar
Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon by Jonathon Stroud

2009
Winner

The Ask and the Answer: Chaos Walking, Book Two by Patrick Ness

Shortlist
Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd
Troubadour by Mary Hoffman
Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera

2008
Winner

Just Henry by Michelle Magorian

Shortlist
Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray
The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine

2007
Winner

The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley

Shortlist
Crusade by Elizabeth Laird
What I Was by Meg Rosoff
Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick

2006
Winner

Set in Stone by Linda Newbery

Shortlist
Clay by David Almond
The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
Just in Case by Meg Rosoff

Whitbread Children's Book Award

2005
Winner

The New Policeman by Kate Thompson

Shortlist
Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
Permanent Rose by Hilary McKay

2004

Winner
Not the End of the World by Geraldine McCaughrean

Shortlist
Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
No Shame, No Fear by Ann Turnbull

2003
Winner

The Fire-Eaters by David Almond

Shortlist
The Oracle by Catherine Fisher
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Naked Without a Hat by Jeanne Willis

2002
Winner

Saffy’s Angel by Hilary McKay

Shortlist
Exodus by Julie Bertagna
Sorceress by Celia Rees
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award

(1996-8 ineligible for Book of the Year Award)

2001
Winner

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman *

Shortlist
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
The Lady and the Squire by Terry Jones

2000
Winner

Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin

Shortlist
Heaven Eyes by David Almond
The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Troy by Adele Geras

1999
Winner

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban by JK Rowling

Shortlist
Meeting Midnight by Carol Ann Duffy
Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson

1998
Winner

Skellig by David Almond

Shortlist
Sweet Clarinet by James Riordan
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by JK Rowling
Abomination by Robert Swindells

1997
Winner

Aquila by Andrew Norriss

Shortlist
Junk by Melvin Burgess
Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech
Harry and the Wrinklies by Alan Temperley

1996
Winner

The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine

Shortlist
The Trokeville Way by Russell Hoban
Plundering Paradise by Geraldine McCaughrean
Clockwork or All Wound Up by Philip Pullman

Beefeater Children's Novel Award

1995
Winner

The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo

Shortlist
The Parsley Parcel by Elizabeth Arnold
Kasper in the Glitter by Philip Ridley

Whitbread Children's Novel Award

1994
Winner

Gold Dust by Geraldine McCaughrean

1993
Winner

Flour Babies by Anne Fine

1992
Winner

The Great Elephant Chase by Gillian Cross

1991
Winner

Harvey Angell by Diana Hendry

1990
Winner

AK by Peter Dickinson

1989
Winner

Why Weeps the Brogan? by Hugh Scott

1988
Winner

Awaiting Developments by Judy Allen

1987
Winner

A Little Lower than the Angels by Geraldine McCaughrean

1986
Winner

The Coal House by Andrew Taylor

1985
Winner

The Nature of the Beast by Janni Howker

1984
Winner

The Queen of the Pharisees' Children by Barbara Willard

1983
Winner

The Witches by Roald Dahl

1982
Winner

The Song of Pentecost by WJ Corbett

1981
Winner

The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam

1980
Winner

John Diamond by Leon Garfield

1979
Winner

Tulku by Peter Dickinson

Whitbread Children's Book Award

1978
Winner

The Battle of Bubble & Squeak by Philippa Pearce

1977
Winner

No End to Yesterday by Shelagh MacDonald

1976
Winner

A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively

1974
Winner

How Tom Beat Captain Najork & His Hired Sportsmen by Russell Hoban & Quentin Blake

1974
Winner

The Emperor's Winding Sheet by Jill Paton Walsh

1973
Winner

The Butterfly Ball & The Grasshopper's Feast by Alan Aldridge & William Plomer

1972
Winner

The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden

* Book of the Year

Costa Poetry Award

Costa Poetry Award
2017
Winner
Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore

Shortlist
Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi
On Balance by Sinéad Morrissey
Useful Verses by Richard Osmond

2016
Winner
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald

Shortlist
Sunshine by Melissa Lee-Houghton
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
Let Them Eat Chaos by Kate Tempest

2015
Winner
40 Sonnets by Don Paterson

Shortlist
Physical by Andrew McMillan
The Observances by Kate Miller
Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson

2014
Winner
My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards

Shortlist
The Whole and Rain-domed Universe by Colette Bryce
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller

2013
Winner
Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts

Shortlist
Dante, The Divine Comedy by Clive James
Division Street by Helen Mort
Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson

2012
Winner
The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie

Shortlist
Bee Journal by Sean Borodale
The World’s Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus
People Who Like Meatballs by Selima Hill

2011
Winner
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy

Shortlist
Night by David Harsent
Fiere by Jackie Kay
November by Sean O'Brien

2010
Winner
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott *

Shortlist
Standard Midland by Roy Fisher
The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson
New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts

2009
Winner
A Scattering by Christopher Reid *

Shortlist
Angels over Elsinore by Clive James
One Eye’d Leigh by Katherine Kilalea
Darwin: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel

2008
Winner
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds

Shortlist
For All We Know by Ciaran Carson
Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds
Salvation Jane by Greta Stoddart

2007
Winner
Tilt by Jean Sprackland

Shortlist
The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig
The Space of Joy by John Fuller
Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra

2006
Winner
Letter to Patience by John Haynes

Shortlist
The Book of Blood by Vicki Feaver
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
Dear Room by Hugo Williams

Whitbread Poetry Award

2005
Winner

Cold Calls by Christopher Logue

Shortlist
Legion by David Harsent
Lucky Day by Richard Price
Marabou by Jane Yeh

2004
Winner

Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts

Shortlist
These Days by Leontia Flynn
Ghosts by John Fuller
Ground Water by Matthew Hollis

2003
Winner

Landing Light by Don Paterson

Shortlist
Minsk by Lavinia Greenlaw
Ink Stone by Jamie McKendrick
Hard Water by Jean Sprackland

2002
Winner

The Ice Age by Paul Farley

Shortlist
Something for the Ghosts by David Constantine
Voodoo Shop by Ruth Padel
The Beautiful Lie by Sheenagh Pugh

2001
Winner

Bunny by Selima Hill

Shortlist
The Age of Cardboard and String by Charles Boyle
If I Don’t Know by Wendy Cope
Panoramic Lounge-Bar by John Stammers

2000
Winner

The Asylum Dance by John Burnside

Shortlist
Conjure by Michael Donaghy
Collected Poems by RF Langley
Floods by Maurice Riordan
Granny Scarecrow by Anne Stevenson

1999
Winner

Beowulf by Seamus Heaney *

Shortlist
Approximately Nowhere by Michael Hofmann
Alcestis by Ted Hughes
The Eyes by Don Paterson

1998
Winner

Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes *

Shortlist
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See you by Paul Farley
The Wasting Game by Philip Gross

1997
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes *

Shortlist

CloudCuckooLand by Simon Armitage

Sugar-Paper blue by Ruth Fainlight

Violet by Selima Hill

Assembling a Ghost by Peter Redgrove

1996
Winner

The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney *

Shortlist
Safe As Houses by UA Fanthorpe
The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile by Alice Oswald
Expanded Universes by Christopher Reid
The Wound-dresser’s Dream by Pauline Stainer

1995
Winner

Gunpowder by Bernard O'Donoghue

Shortlist
The Dead Sea Poems by Simon Armitage
The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems by Tony Harrison
Rest for the Wicked by Glyn Maxwell

1994
Winner

Out of Danger by James Fenton

1993
Winner

Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy

1992
Winner

The Gaze of the Gorgon by Tony Harrison

1991
Winner

Gorse Flies by Michael Longley

1990
Winner

Daddy, Daddy by Paul Durcan

1989
Winner

Shibboleth by Michael Donaghy

1988
Winner

The Automatic Oracle by Peter Porter

1987
Winner

The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney

1986
Winner

Stet by Peter Reading

1985
Winner

Elegies by Douglas Dunn *

1971
Winner

Mercian Hymns by Geoffrey Hill

* Book of the Year

Costa Biography Award

Costa Biography Award
2017
Winner
In the Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott

Shortlist
Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
Fragile Lives by Professor Stephen Westaby

2016
Winner

Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew

Shortlist
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar
I'm Not With the Band: A Writer's Life lost in Music by Sylvia Patterson

2015
Winner

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf

Shortlist
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr

2014
Winner

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald *

Shortlist
Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life by John Campbell
The Iceberg: A Memoir by Marion Coutts
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh

2013
Winner

The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Shortlist
Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins by Gavin Francis
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink by Olivia Laing

2012
Winner

Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes by Mary M Talbot & Bryan Talbot

Shortlist
Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
The Crocodile by the Door: The story of a house, a farm and a family by Selina Guinness
Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard

2011
Winner

Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis

Shortlist
Thin Paths: Journeys in and around a Mountain Village by Julia Blackburn
Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia (A Father and Son’s Story) by Patrick Cockburn & Henry Cockburn
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin

2010
Winner

The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal

Shortlist
How to live: A life of Montaigne in twenty questions and one attempt at an answer by Sarah Bakewell
My Father’s Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn

2009
Winner

The Strangest Man – The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo

Shortlist
The Music Room by William Fiennes
Coda by Simon Gray
Dancing to the Precipice by Caroline Moorehead

2008
Winner

Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill

Shortlist
Bloomsbury Ballerina by Judith Mackrell
If You Don’t Know Me By Now by Sathnam Sanghera
Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager

2007
Winner

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Shortlist Rudolf Nureyev by Julie Kavanagh Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins

2006
Winner

Keeping Mum by Brian Thompson

Shortlist
George Mackay Brown – The Life by Maggie Fergusson
Donne: A Reformed Soul by John Stubbs
Nabeel’s Song by Jo Tatchell

Whitbread Biography Award

2005
Winner

Matisse: The Master by Hilary Spurling *

Shortlist
Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce by Nigel Farndale
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters

2004
Winner

My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy

Shortlist
Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue by David McKie
Stephen Spender by John Sutherland
V.S.Pritchett: A Life by Jeremy Treglown

2003
Winner

Orwell: The Life by DJ Taylor

Shortlist
Margaret Thatcher – Volume Two: The Iron Lady by John Campbell
Martha Gellhorn by Caroline Moorehead
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson

2002
Winner

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin *

Shortlist
Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter
The Real Mrs Miniver by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox

2001
Winner

Selkirk’s Island by Diana Souhami

Shortlist
A View of Delft by Anthony Bailey
Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman
Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey Wall

2000
Winner

Bad Blood by Lorna Sage

Shortlist
Fanny Burney by Claire Harman
John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton
Hitler: 1936-45 Nemesis by Ian Kershaw

1999
Winner

Berlioz, Volume 2 by David Cairns

Shortlist
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
Matisse by Hilary Spurling

1998
Winner

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman

Shortlist
Iris, A memoir of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
Hitler, Volume One Hubris 1889 – 1936 by Ian Kershaw

1997
Winner

Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes *

Victor Hugo by Graham Robb

Shortlist
Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse by Jessica Douglas-Home
Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale
Citizen Lord by Stella Tillyard
Hogarth, A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow

1996
Winner

Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Shortlist
George Eliot: A Life by Rosemary Ashton
The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline by Flora Fraser
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson

1995
Winner

Gladstone by Roy Jenkins

Shortlist
Vera Brittain – A Life by Paul Berry & Mark Bostridge
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
Terence Rattigan by Geoffrey Wansell

1994
Winner

DH Lawrence: The Married Man y Brenda Maddox

1993
Winner

Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life by Andrew Motion

1992
Winner

Trollope by Victoria Glendinning

1991
Winner

A Life of Picasso by John Richardson *

1990
Winner

AA Milne: His Life by Ann Thwaite

1989
Winner

Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes *

1988
Winner

Tolstoy by AN Wilson

1987
Winner

Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan *

1986
Winner

Gilbert White by Richard Mabey

1985
Winner

Hugh Dalton by Ben Pimlott

1984
Winner

TS Eliot by Peter Ackroyd

1983
Winners

Vita by Victoria Glendinning

King George V by Kenneth Rose

1982
Winner

Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw

1981
Winner

Monty: The Making of a General by Nigel Hamilton

1980
Winner

On the Edge of Paradise: AC Benson the Diarist by David Newsome

1979

Winner
About Time by Penelope Mortimer

1978
Winner

Lloyd George: The People's Champion by John Grigg

1977
Winner

Mary Curzon by Nigel Nicolson

1976
Winner

Elizabeth Gaskell by Winifred Gerin

1975 Whitbread Autobiography Award
Winner

In Our Infancy by Helen Corke

1974
Winner

Poor Dear Brendan by Andrew Boyle

1973
Winner

CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman by John Wilson

1972
Winner

Trollope by James Pope-Hennessy

1971
Winner

Henrik Ibsen by Michael Meyer

* Book of the Year