Costa First Novel Award

Costa First Novel Award
2017
Winner
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Shortlist

The Clocks in the House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks

Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
The Haunting of Henry Twist by Rebecca F John

2016
Winner
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

Shortlist
The Good Guy by Susan Beale My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd

2015
Winner
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley

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Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
Things We Have In Common by Tasha Kavanagh

2014
Winner
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

Shortlist A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray Academy Street by Mary Costello Chop Chop by Simon Wroe

2013
Winner
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer *

Shortlist
Idiopathy by Sam Byers
Meeting the English by Kate Clanchy
Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera

2012
Winner
The Innocents by Francesca Segal

Shortlist
The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by JW Ironmonger
Snake Ropes by Jess Richards
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood

2011
Winner
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson

Shortlist City of Bohane by Kevin Barry The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness Pao by Kerry Young

2010
Winner
Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai

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Coconut Unlimited by Nikesh Shukla
The Temple Goers by Aatish Taseer
Not Quite White by Simon Thirsk

2009
Winner
Beauty by Raphael Selbourne

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The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath
John the Revelator by Peter Murphy
The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

2008
Winner
The Outcast by Sadie Jones

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The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
Inside the Whale by Jennie Rooney
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

2007
Winner
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn

Shortlist A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam Gifted by Nikita Lalwani Mosquito by Roma Tearne

2006
Winner
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney *

Shortlist
The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
Cloth Girl by Marilyn Heward Mills
The Amnesia Clinic by James Scudamore

Whitbread First Novel Award

2005
Winner

The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw

Shortlist
26a by Diana Evans
The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs
Gem Squash Tokoloshe by Rachel Zadok

2004
Winner

Eve Green by Susan Fletcher

Shortlist
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Land as Viewed from the Sea by Richard Collins
The Maze by Panos Karnezis

2003
Winner

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

Shortlist
Buddha Da by Anne Donovan
An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray
An Empty Room by Talitha Stevenson

2002
Winner

The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

Shortlist
The End of My Tether by Neil Astley
Homage to a Firing Squad by Tariq Goddard
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru

2001
Winner

Something Like a House by Sid Smith

Shortlist
The Oversight by Will Eaves
Burning Worm by Carl Tighe
August by Gerard Woodward

2000
Winner

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

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Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Danny Boy by Jo-Ann Goodwin
Born Free by Laura Hird

1999
Winner

White City Blue by Tim Lott

Shortlist
The Great Ideas by Suzanne Cleminshaw
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
A Foreign Country by Francine Stock

1998
Winner

The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden

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Shopping by Gavin Kramer
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
Jelly Roll by Luke Sutherland

1997
Winner

The Ventriloquist’s Tale by Pauline Melville

Shortlist
One Day as a Tiger by Anne Haverty
The Underground Man by Mick Jackson
Beach Boy by Ardashir Vakil
Eclipse of the Sun by Phil Whitaker

1996
Winner

The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester

Shortlist
Reading In the Dark by Seamus Deane
The Arizona Game by Georgina Hammick
Mother of Pearl by Mary Morrissy

1995
Winner

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson *

Shortlist
Gagarin & I by Stephen Blanchard
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner

1994
Winner

The Longest Memory by Fred D'Aguiar

1993
Winner

Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk

1992
Winner

Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington *

1991
Winners

Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn

1990
Winner

The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

1989
Winner

Gerontius by James Hamilton-Paterson

1988
Winner

The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer *

1987
Winner

The Other Garden by Francis Wyndham

1986
Winner

Continent by Jim Crace

1985
Winner

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

1984
Winner

A Parish of Rich Women by James Buchan

1983
Winner

Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller

1982
Winner

On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin

1981
Winner

A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd

Whitbread First Book Award

1975
Winner

The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelock by Ruth Spalding

1974
Winner

The Life & Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin

* Book of the Year