Portfolio Categories: Costa (formerly Whitbread) Novel of the Year

  • Pure by Andrew Miller

    Pure by Andrew Miller

    2011 Winner: A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love…A […]

  • Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel

    Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel

    2012 Winner: Continuing what began in the Man Booker Prize-winning ‘Wolf Hall’, we return to the court of Henry VIII, to witness the irresistible rise of Thomas Cromwell as he […]

  • Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

    Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

    2013 Winner: What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby […]

  • How to Be Both by Ali Smith

    How to Be Both by Ali Smith

    2014 Winner: A renaissance artist of the 1460s. A child of a child of the 1960s.Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, […]