2010 Costa Book Awards
The shortlists were announced on 17 November 2010. The winners in each category were announced on 4 January 2011.Book of the Year
Winner:
- Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability
Winner:
- Jason Wallace, Out of Shadows
Shortlist:
- Lucy Christopher, Flyaway
- Sharon Dogar, Annexed
- Jonathan Stroud, Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon
First Novel
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Nikesh Shukla, Coconut Unlimited
- Aatish Taseer, The Temple-Goers
- Simon Thirsk, Not Quite White
Novel
Winner:
- Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine
Shortlist:
- Louise Doughty, Whatever You Love
- Nigel Farndale, The Blasphemer
- Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
Biography
Winner:
- Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
Shortlist:
- Sarah Bakewell, How to Live A Life of Montaigne
- Michael Frayn, My Father's Fortune
Poetry
Winner:
- Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability
Shortlist: