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Costa book awards 2008

February 2009

  • How much does the ending matter?

    The Observer panel on the arguably flawed conclusion to Sebastian Parry's Costa award-winning novel

January 2009

  • Costa winner Sebastian Barry

    Interview: Sebastian Barry reveals the secrets of his Costa prize win

  • Adam Foulds

    Charlotte Higgins on culture
    How Adam Foulds was a breath away from the Costa book of the year award

  • Sebastian Barry

    Sebastian Barry savours £25,000 Costa victory

  • Costa books awards 2008

    Charlotte Higgins on culture
    Who will win the Costa book of the year award tomorrow?

  • Final acts

  • The week in books
    The week in books

  • Books blog
    A way with tears makes Magorian a worthy Costa winner

  • Extract: The Broken Word by Adam Foulds

  • Nonagenarian Diana Athill leads Costa book award winners

  • Extract: The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

  • Extract: Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill

  • Extract: Just Henry by Michelle Magorian

  • Extract: The Outcast by Sadie Jones

  • Not bad for 91

November 2008

  • Robert McCrum

    Robert McCrum on books
    If it's the Costa, it must be Athill's turn

    Robert McCrum
  • Robert McCrum

    Robert McCrum on books
    Read all about it - how Obama is setting the literary agenda

    Robert McCrum
  • Sebastian Barry

    Another chance for Sebastian Barry as Costa shortlists are announced

  • Louis de Bernieres

    Books blog
    A cutting-edge shortlist for the Costa book awards

August 2008

  • Enid Blyton in 1949

    How utterly, splendidly ripping

    Lucy Mangan says hurrah for the 'nanny-narrator' who introduced her and countless others to the joys of reading

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