Costa Shortlists, and More

Publishers Lunch

In the UK, the shortlists were announced for the Costa Awards in four categories. Women claimed all the nominations for best novel, while men took most of the first novel slots:

Novel
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Unexpected Lessons in Love, Bernardine Bishop
Instructions for a Heatwave, Maggie O'Farrell
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

First Novel
Idiopathy, Sam Byers
Meeting the English, Kate Clanchy
The Shock of the Fall, Nathan Filer
Marriage Material, Sathnam Sanghera

In Canada, trade magazine Quill & Quire named their top six works of fiction of the year:

The Orenda, Joseph Boyden
The Luminaries, Elizabeth Catton
Savage Love, Douglas Glover
The Silent Wife, A.S.A. Harrison
Caught, Lisa Moore
1996, Sara Peters