annecater
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Costa Book Award ShortlistI'd love to see Chris Cleave win with The Other  - I loved it.
I've read Sadie Jones' The Outcast and enjoyed it too.
The Behaviour Of Moths has been on my wish list for ages.
I've not read any of the bio / poetry / childrens books.
Youth takes on experience in the shortlist for this year's Costa Book Awards, announced on Tuesday, with a debut writer pitted against a veteran author in her 90s in the best biography category.
A record number of entries were submitted for this year's awards, which are divided into five categories -- novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children's book. The winner of each, announced in January, receives 5,000 pounds.
In the biography category, journalist Sathnam Sanghera's first book "If You Don't Know Me By Now: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton" is up against "Somewhere Towards the End" by Diana Athill, who, born in 1917, already has five volumes of memoirs and one novel under her belt.
The shortlist also includes books by Louis de Bernieres, author of bestseller "Captain Corelli's Mandolin," and Sebastian Barry, who has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
To be eligible for the awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, books must have been first published in the United Kingdom or Ireland between November 1 last year and October 31, 2008.
The overall winner, crowned Costa Book of the Year, will be selected from the five category award winners, receiving a further 25,000 pounds in prize money.
The shortlisted books are:
Costa Novel Award:
* Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
* Chris Cleave - The Other
* Louis de Bernieres - A Partisan's Daughter
* Patrick McGrath - Trauma
Costa First Novel Award
* Poppy Adams - The Behaviour of Moths
* Sadie Jones - The Outcast
* Jennie Rooney - Inside the Whale
* Tom Rob Smith - Child 44
Costa Biography Award
* Diana Athill - Somewhere Towards the End
* Judith Mackrell - Bloomsbury Ballerina
* Sathnam Sanghera - If You Don't Know Me By Now
* Jackie Wullschlager - Chagall
Costa Poetry Award
* Ciaron Carson - For All We Know
* Adam Foulds - The Broken Word
* Kathryn Simmonds - Sunday at the Skin Launderette
* Greta Stoddart - Salvation Jane
Costa Children's Book Award
* Keith Grey - Ostrich Boys
* Saci Lloyd - The Carbon Diaries 2015
* Michelle Magorian - Just Henry
* Jenny Valentine - Broken Soup
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nicx27
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I'm glad to see The Outcast up for another prize. Unlike a lot of people, I thought it was spectacular. I have The Other on my TBR pile, having really enjoyed Incendiary.
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