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Costa book awards 2009

30 January 2010

  • The Saturday poem
    Turns by Christopher Reid

  • view of postman's park

    My hero
    My heroes in Postman's Park, by Christopher Reid

29 January 2010

  • Christopher Reid, Costa winner, January 2010

    Poet Christopher Reid talks about winning the Costa book of the year

    Christopher Reid on how he turned the death of his wife into a prize-winning poetry collection

26 January 2010

  • Claire Armitstead Literary editor

    Christopher Reid's quiet Costa triumph

    Claire Armitstead Literary editor

    Coup for low-profile collection of poems exploring the author's grief for his wife

  • Christopher Reid, who has won the Costa book of the year award for A Scattering

    Christopher Reid wins Costa book prize

    Poet picks up £30,000 prize and huge increase in readership for A Scattering – which has sold fewer than 1,000 copies

  • Irish author Colm Toibin

    Tóibín runaway favourite for Costa book of the year

    Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn is being heavily backed to win this year's £30,000 award

17 January 2010

  • Forget Harry Potter: Saci Lloyd thrills teenagers with a heroine who battles climate change and extremism

    Johnny Depp lost his bid to film The Carbon Diaries books by London teacher Saci Lloyd when she picked the BBC instead

5 January 2010

  • Motor scooter

    Books blog
    The myth of the writer's 'former life'

  • Colm Toibin

    Extract from Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (Viking)

  • Extract from Beauty by Raphael Selbourne (Tindal Street Press)

  • Extract from The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo (Faber)

  • The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness (Walker Books)

  • Extract from A Scattering by Christopher Reid (Areté Books)

4 January 2010

  • Colm Toibin

    Colm Tóibín wins Costa prize to at last take first major book award

    After being pipped at the finishing line several times, Irish writer edges out favourite, Hilary Mantel, to win Costa novel category

December 2009

  • Gary Kemp at the Green Carnation club

    Books blog
    This year's Costa judges: all razzle, no dazzle?

  • Shorn of dissent, Britain's high culture is little different from The X Factor

November 2009

  • Christopher Nicholson

    Little-known novelist vies with big names for Costa prize

    Christopher Nicholson's The Elephant Keeper goes up against Hilary Mantel, Colm Tóibín and Penelope Lively in shortlist for £5,000 award

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