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Costa book awards 2013

July 2014

  • Nathan Filer

    Point of view
    Why you should ignore the superlatives on book jackets

  • woman wearing wellies looks at books

    Tips, links and suggestions
    Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading this week?

January 2014

  • Angela Readman

    Read the 2013 Costa short story award winner

    The Keeper of the Jackalopes by Angela Readman, who was also shortlisted last year, was chosen from 1,400 entries read blind. Judge for yourself below
  • Costa book awards

    Costa short story award finalists revealed

    Angela Readman and Sheila Llewellyn among six shortlisted authors – all chosen blind – for a second time

    • The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer – review

    • Books blog
      Costa prize judges take to echoing others' verdicts

    • Nathan Filer wins Costa first-novel award with The Shock of the Fall

December 2013

  • Costa book awards

    Public vote to decide Costa short story award

    Six shortlisted authors' stories available anonymously to download and consider

November 2013

  • Bernardine Bishop

    Books blog
    Margaret Drabble: Bernardine Bishop's miraculous achievement

    Margaret Drabble: Novelist's posthumous Costa prize shortlisting provides this amazing writer with some of the afterlife she deserves

  • Antonia Fraser

    Costa shortlist proves Women's prize is unnecessary, says Antonia Fraser

    All-female finalists for best novel category show 'we don't need' an award exclusive to female novelists
  • Bernardine Bishop

    Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist

    Posthumous nomination for Bernardine Bishop on list that also includes Kate Atkinson, Maggie O'Farrell and Evie Wyld
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