Costa First Novel Award

Kishwar Desai

Honored for : Witness the Night

Raphael Selbourne

Honored for : Beauty

Kate Atkinson

Honored for : Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Fred D'Aguiar

Honored for : The Longest Memory

Rachel Cusk

Honored for : Saving Agnes

Jeff Torrington

Honored for : Swing Hammer Swing!

Gordon Burn

Honored for : Alma Cogan

Hanif Kureishi

Honored for : The Buddha of Suburbia

James Hamilton-Paterson

Honored for : Gerontius

Paul Sayer

Honored for : The Comforts of Madness

Francis Wyndham

Honored for : The Other Garden

Jim Crace

Honored for : Continent

Jeanette Winterson

Honored for : Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

James Buchan

Honored for : A Parish of Rich Women

John Fuller

Honored for : Flying to Nowhere

Bruce Chatwin

Honored for : On the Black Hill

William Boyd

Honored for : A Good Man in Africa