Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards is a prestigious literary prize, presented annually to authors based in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Since 1971 winners have been selected across five categories, with one winner also awarded the overall Book of the Year prize.
Shop the nominees from each category below.
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
$20.00 NZD
Category: Novel
A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve, falling in love with the cold and unforgiving terrain and forging lifelong bonds with the Inuit people who have carved out an existence on its icy plains. She sets out to become a scientist and polar explorer, despit ...Show more
Useful Verses by Richard Osmond
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Richard Osmond's debut collection Useful Verses follows in the tradition of the best nature writing, being as much about the human world as the natural, the present as the past: Osmond, a professional forager, has a deep knowledge of flora and fauna as they appear in both natural and human history, as t ...Show more
Wed Wabbit (HB) by Lissa Evans
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children's | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
You're called Fidge and you're nearly eleven. You've been hurled into a strange world. You have three companions: two are unbelievably weird and the third is your awful cousin Graham. You have to solve a series of nearly impossible clues. You need to deal with a cruel dictator and three thousand Wimbley ...Show more