COSTA PRIZE SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED OVERNIGHT

2010 Costa Novel Award shortlist

Louise Doughty for Whatever You Love (Faber & Faber)
Nigel Farndale for The Blasphemer (Doubleday)
Maggie O'Farrell for The Hand That First Held Mine (Headline Review)
Paul Murray for Skippy Dies (Hamish Hamilton)

2010 Costa First Novel Award shortlist

Kishwar Desai for Witness the Night (Beautiful Books)
Nikesh Shukla for Coconut Unlimited (Quartet Books)
Aatish Taseer for The Temple-Goers (Viking)
Simon Thirsk for Not Quite White (Gomer Press)

2010 Costa Biography Award shortlist

Sarah Bakewell for How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and 20 attempts at an answer (Chatto & Windus)
Michael Frayn for My Father's Fortune (Faber & Faber)
Edmund de Waal for The Hare with Amber Eyes (Chatto & Windus)

2010 Costa Poetry Award shortlist

Roy Fisher for Standard Midland (Bloodaxe Books)
Robin Robertson for The Wrecking Light (Picador)
Jo Shapcott for Of Mutability (Faber and Faber)
Sam Willetts for New Light for the Old Dark (Cape Poetry)

2010 Costa Children's Book Award shortlist

Lucy Christopher for Flyaway (The Chicken House)
Sharon Dogar for Annexed (Andersen Press)
Jonathan Stroud for Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon (Doubleday Children's Books)
Jason Wallace for Out of Shadows (Andersen Press)

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