Guardian article and awards shortlists - for the Costa awards
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/23/costa-prize-2021-shortlists-highlight-climate-anxiety
Costa awards shortlists were announced on Tuesday 23 November.
The overall winner (and I think the category winners) are announced on 21 November
The 2021 shortlists in full
First novel
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson (Viking)
The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore (Granta)
Fault Lines by Emily Itami (Phoenix)
The Stranding by Kate Sawyer (Coronet)
Novel
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller (Fig Tree)
The High House by Jessie Greengrass (Swift Press)
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed (Viking)
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (Viking)
Biography
Consumed: A Sister’s Story by Arifa Akbar (Sceptre)
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest by Ed Caesar (Viking)
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston (Viking)
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi (Allen Lane)
Poetry award
All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus (Picador)
A Blood Condition by Kayo Chingonyi (Chatto & Windus)
Eat or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick (Carcanet Press)
The Kids by Hannah Lowe (Bloodaxe Books)
Children’s
Maggie Blue and the Dark World by Anna Goodall (Guppy Books)The Crossing by Manjeet Mann (Penguin)
The Midnight Guardians by Ross Montgomery (Walker Books)
The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh by Helen Rutter (Scholastic UK)
Thoughts? What have you read? What would you like to read? Your predictions and choices.