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Costa book awards 2006

February 2007

  • Leave me alone

    On Wednesday Stef Penney won the coveted Costa Book of the Year award. She tells Stephen Moss about her long battle with agoraphobia, why she shuns celebrity - and why this could be her last ever interview.

  • Mark Lawson

    Head is as good as feet

    Mark Lawson
    Mark Lawson: The creeping requirement that writers of prose located outside their homeland should present their passports for inspection at the bookshop door is highly questionable. For the inventive and self-confident novelist, a library card take them further than an air ticket.

    • Extract from The Tenderness of Wolves

    • Agoraphobic tells of her struggle to win book prize

    • Surprise win for Canadian epic at inaugural Costa award

November 2006

  • Costa kicks off prize sponsorship with populist shortlist

    The first year of Costa Coffee chain's sponsorship of the awards formerly known as the Whitbreads is heralded tonight with an idiosyncratic set of shortlists, featuring an all-male novel category and no fewer than eight first-time authors.

January 2006

  • Here's to the Costa book prize

    Claire Armitstead: Whitbread's sponsorship of the literary prize that carries its name is coming to an end, as the company doesn't actually brew Whitbread beer any more. But among its other interests is Costa Coffee. Surely it should be able to make the association of books and coffee work?

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