The Whitbread / Costa Prize

The shortlisted and winning titles for the 2016 Costa Prizes are below:

Costa Novel

Days Without End
by Sebastian Barry

Published: Faber, 2016

Fine in fine wrapper. Booker short-listed author's latest novel with excellent reviews. Costa 2016 novel and overall winner. 2017 Booker longlisted. Signed copy.

Price: £ 55.00

The Confessions of Frannie Langton
by Sara Collins

Published: Penguin Viking, 2019

Near fine, with a couple of small bumps and very slight lean, in like wrapper. Very acceptable copy though of the extremely rare first printing of this Costa-winner.

Price: £ 25.00

This Must be the Place
by Maggie O'Farrell

Published: Tinder Press, 2016

Fine in fine wrapper. Wide-ranging and well-received novel from popular author. Increasingly scarce signed copy. Costa 2016 shortlisted.

Price: £ 35.00

Tin Man
by Sarah Winman

Published: Tinder Press, 2017

Fine in fine ill. boards, as issued. Well-received new novel, shortlisted for this year's Costa Novel Award. Signed copy.

Price: £ 35.00

Costa First Novel

Dadland
by Keggie Carew

Published: Chatto & Windus, 2016

Fine in fine wrapper. Superb memoir and winner of the 2016 Costa Biography Award. Signed copy.

Price: £ 20.00

Golden Hill
by Francis Spufford

Published: Faber, 2016

Fine in fine wrapper. Excellent debut by non-fiction writer and very scarce in hardback. Winner of the 2016 Costa first novel award and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017, the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2017, the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017 and the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year 2017 and longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize 2017. Signed by the author.

Price: £ 150.00

Costa Children's Novel

Falling Awake
by Alice Oswald

Published: Jonathan Cape, 2016

Fine limited, signed edition, in fine perspex slipcase. The celebrated poet's superb latest collection in signed form, limited to 100 numbered copies and covered in publisher's brown paper. This is a lovely limited edition that manages to be ethereal, ergonomic and coffee-table all at the same time! Costa 2016 poetry award winner.

Price: £ 175.00

The Bombs that Brought us Together
by Brian Conaghan

Published: Bloomsbury, 2016

Fine in fine wrapper. Excellent YA title and winner of the 2016 Costa Children's award.

Price: £ 15.00

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