2010 Costa Book Awards

The shortlists were announced on 17 November 2010. The winners in each category were announced on 4 January 2011.

Book of the Year

Winner:

• Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability

Children's Book

Winner:

• Jason Wallace, Out of Shadows

Shortlist:

• Lucy Christopher, Flyaway
• Sharon Dogar, Annexed
• Jonathan Stroud, Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon

First Novel

Winner:

• Kishwar Desai, Witness the Night

Shortlist:

• Nikesh Shukla, Coconut Unlimited
• Aatish Taseer, The Temple-Goers
• Simon Thirsk, Not Quite White

Novel

Winner:

• Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine

Shortlist:

• Louise Doughty, Whatever You Love
• Nigel Farndale, The Blasphemer
• Paul Murray, Skippy Dies

Biography

Winner:

• Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes

Shortlist:

• Sarah Bakewell, How to Live A Life of Montaigne
• Michael Frayn, My Father's Fortune

Poetry

Winner:

• Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability

Shortlist:

• Roy Fisher, Standard Midland
• Robin Robertson, The Wrecking Light
• Sam Willetts, New Light for the Old Dark

References

• Previous winners

External links

• "Costa prize shortlist falls short on biographies", Mark Brown, The Guardian, 16 November 2010
• "Costa judge laments a weak year for fiction", Arifa Akbar, The Independent, 17 November 2010