— Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Literary Award) 15 Titles found
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A Good Man in Africa
A Novel
Written by William Boyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $15.95
In the small African republic of Kinjanja, British diplomat Morgan Leafy bumbles heavily through his job. His love of women, his fondness for drink, and his loathing for the country prove formidable obstacles on his road to any kind of success. But when he becomes an operative in Operation Kingpin and... Read more >
A Novel
Written by William Boyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $15.95
In the small African republic of Kinjanja, British diplomat Morgan Leafy bumbles heavily through his job. His love of women, his fondness for drink, and his loathing for the country prove formidable obstacles on his road to any kind of success. But when he becomes an operative in Operation Kingpin and... Read more >
The Last King of Scotland
Written by Giles Foden
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 26, 1999
Price: $14.00
Winner of the Whitbread Award
"This decidedly quirky yet absorbing first novel—that brings to mind the diabolical Evelyn Waugh."—Los Angeles Times Book Review
Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in his red Maserati... Read more >
Written by Giles Foden
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 26, 1999
Price: $14.00
Winner of the Whitbread Award
"This decidedly quirky yet absorbing first novel—that brings to mind the diabolical Evelyn Waugh."—Los Angeles Times Book Review
Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in his red Maserati... Read more >
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Written by Mark Haddon
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2004
Price: $14.00
Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up... Read more >
Written by Mark Haddon
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2004
Price: $14.00
Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up... Read more >
An Artist of the Floating World
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 19, 1989
Price: $13.95
Ono, an artist who had put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II, struggles through the devastation of that war. His memories of his youth and of the "floating world"--the nocturnal realm of pleasure, entertainment, and drink--offer him both escape and redemption... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 19, 1989
Price: $13.95
Ono, an artist who had put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II, struggles through the devastation of that war. His memories of his youth and of the "floating world"--the nocturnal realm of pleasure, entertainment, and drink--offer him both escape and redemption... Read more >
Day
A novel
Written by A. L. Kennedy
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $24.00
The New York Times has called her “a world-class fiction writer.” One of Britain’s most iconoclastic and highly acclaimed young writers (“If you are at all interested in contemporary fiction, this is work you must not miss”—Richard Ford)—twice selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, winner of the Somerset... Read more >
A novel
Written by A. L. Kennedy
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $24.00
The New York Times has called her “a world-class fiction writer.” One of Britain’s most iconoclastic and highly acclaimed young writers (“If you are at all interested in contemporary fiction, this is work you must not miss”—Richard Ford)—twice selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, winner of the Somerset... Read more >
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English Passengers
A Novel
Written by Matthew Kneale
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $15.95
In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Matthew Kneale
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $15.95
In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other... Read more >
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The Song of Names
Written by Norman Lebrecht
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $14.95
Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the two boys are... Read more >
Written by Norman Lebrecht
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $14.95
Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the two boys are... Read more >
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eBook.
The Child in Time
Written by Ian McEwan
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $14.95
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Written by Ian McEwan
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $14.95
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Young Stalin
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $30.00
A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil.
What makes a Stalin? What formed this merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic... Read more >
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $30.00
A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil.
What makes a Stalin? What formed this merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
A Life of Picasso
The Prodigy, 1881-1906
Written by John Richardson
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $30.00
As he magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irresistible narrative appeal, Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, the collaboration of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to Picasso's studio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of the artist and his work.
“A powerhouse of a book... Read more >
The Prodigy, 1881-1906
Written by John Richardson
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $30.00
As he magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irresistible narrative appeal, Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, the collaboration of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to Picasso's studio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of the artist and his work.
“A powerhouse of a book... Read more >
The Accidental
Written by Ali Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $13.95
The Accidental is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts—parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid—encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her... Read more >
Written by Ali Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $13.95
The Accidental is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts—parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid—encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her... Read more >
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eBook.
White Teeth
A Novel
Written by Zadie Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $14.95
Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Zadie Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $14.95
Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Matisse the Master
A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
Written by Hilary Spurling
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $25.95
“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone,” wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat... Read more >
A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
Written by Hilary Spurling
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $25.95
“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone,” wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Matisse the Master
A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954
Written by Hilary Spurling
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2005
Price: $40.00
“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone,” wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat... Read more >
A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954
Written by Hilary Spurling
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2005
Price: $40.00
“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone,” wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Samuel Pepys
The Unequalled Self
Written by Claire Tomalin
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $17.95
For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would... Read more >
The Unequalled Self
Written by Claire Tomalin
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $17.95
For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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