The Whitbread Costa Book Awards have announced their shortlists (warning ! dreaded pdf format !).
This is the prize with five categories -- novel, first novel, biography, poetry, and children's -- where they select a winner in each category (announced 4 January), with those five then pitted against one another for the title ofWhitbread Costa Book of the Year (announced 26 January).
This is the prize with five categories -- novel, first novel, biography, poetry, and children's -- where they select a winner in each category (announced 4 January), with those five then pitted against one another for the title of