Portfolio Categories: Costa (formerly Whitbread) Novel of the Year
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]