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COSTA Book Awards Shortlists 2009

Costa First Novel Award

• The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath 
    
• John the Revelator by Peter Murphy 
     
• Beauty by Raphael Selbourne 
   
• The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

Costa Novel Award

• Family Album by Penelope Lively 
     
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 
   
• The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson
  
• Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Costa Biography Award

• The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo 
     
• The Music Room by William Fiennes 
     
• Coda by Simon Gray 
    
• Dancing to the Precipice by Caroline Moorehead

Costa Poetry Award

• Angels Over Elsinore by Clive James 
   
• One Eye'd Leigh by Katharine Kilalea
  
• Darwin: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel
  
• A Scattering by Christopher Reid

Costa Children's Award

• Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd
  
• Troubadour by Mary Hoffman
  
• The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
  
• Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera

ITV3 Crime Thriller awards 2009

• CWA Gold Dagger 2009
  A Whispered Name by William Broderick
  
  
• CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
  The Last Child by John Hart
  
  
• John Creasey(New Blood) Dagger
  Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin
  
  
• Bestsellers Dagger
  Long Lost by Harlan Coben

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