They've announced the winners of the Whitbread Costa Book Awards -- though not yet at the official site, last I checked (sigh ...); see, for example, Costa awards 2012: graphic biography wins category prize by Mark Brown in The Guardian.
The 'big' news is apparently that all five category winners were by female authors -- see, for example, Costa Book Awards: winning women fully deserve their prizes by Sameer Rahim in The Telegraph -- as well as the fact that a comic book won one of the category-prizes.
TheWhitbread Costa Book of the Year -- the pick of these five -- will be announced 29 January.
The 'big' news is apparently that all five category winners were by female authors -- see, for example, Costa Book Awards: winning women fully deserve their prizes by Sameer Rahim in The Telegraph -- as well as the fact that a comic book won one of the category-prizes.
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