2007 Costa Book Award Shortlists

Costa Novel Award
1. Skin Lane / Neil Bartlett
2. Day / A.L. Kennedy
3. Death of a Murderer / Rupert Thomson
4. The Road Home / Rose Tremain

Costa First Novel Award
1. A Golden Age / Tahmima Anam
2. Gifted / Nikita Lalwani
3. What Was Lost / Catherine O’Flynn
4. Mosquito / Roma Tearne

Costa Poetry Award
1. The Speed of Dark / Ian Duhig
2. The Space of Joy / John Fuller
3. Look We Have Coming to Dover! / Daljit Nagra
4. Tilt / Jean Sprackland

Costa Biography Award
1. Rudolf Nureyev / Julie Kavanagh
2. Agent Zigzag / Ben Macintyre
3. Young Stalin / Simon Sebag Montefiore
4. Fatty Batter / Michael Simkins

Costa Children’s Book Award
1. The Bower Bird / Ann Kelley
2. Crusade / Elizabeth Laird
3. What I Was / Meg Rosoff
4. Blood Red Snow White / Marcus Sedgwick

The winner of each category will be announced on January 3, 2008, and the overall Costa Book of the Year on January 22, 2008