I got news...

I’ve been nominated for a Costa First Novel Award!

Look – proof

 

Costa First Novel Award

• Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai (more…)
• Coconut Unlimited by Nikesh Shukla (more…)
• The Temple-Goers by Aatish Taseer (more…)
• Not Quite White by Simon Thirsk (more…)

Costa Novel Award

• Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty (more…)
• The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale (more…)
• The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell (more…)
• Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (more…)

Costa Biography Award

• How to Live A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell (more…)
• My Father’s Fortune by Michael Frayn (more…)
• The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal (more…)

Costa Poetry Award

• Standard Midland by Roy Fisher (more…)
• The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson (more…)
• Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott (more…)
• New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts (more…)

Costa Children’s Book Award

• Flyaway by Lucy Christopher (more…)
• Annexed by Sharon Dogar (more…)
• Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud (more…)
• Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace (more…)

 

I’ve only read ‘The Temple-Goers’ from my category so not convinced of my chances… BUT… I’m so chuffed that ‘Skippy Dies’ by Paul Murray is up for best novel as it’s one of my favourites of the year!

Check back on 5 January 2010.

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