Three Scottish Books Shortlisted for Costa Book Awards - Category Winners Announced

Congratulations to Scottish authors William Boyd, Maggie Fergusson and Vicki Feaver, who all have books shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Book Awards. The awards, formerly the Whitbread Awards, were announced on the BBC's Radio 4 programme 'Front Row'.

UPDATE William Boyd's Restless won the Costa Book Award's "Novel of the Year" award, announced on 10th January 2007. Restless was described as:

"Restless remains in the mind long after you finish it. Its scenes of wartime tension, the smell of espionage and the consequences of deceitful lives. Double cross, double bluff - all written with effortless clarity resulting in an unputdownable read."

And the First Novel novel award went to The Tenderness of Wolves.

The novel will now go forward to the final Book of the Year Award, alongside the winners of the Poetry, Biography, First Novel and Children's Book category winners.

  • Cover scan of The Book Of Blood
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    The Book Of Blood - Paperback - Vicki Feaver
    Set in a territory which connects child with adult, myth with reality, the personal with the universal, the book shows a poet fully open to the richness and possibilities of the world but also aware of its violence and pain, not as a remote observer but as someone who is a part of it.
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    The Life Of George Mackay Brown: The Life - Hardback - Maggie Fergusson
    George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest 20th century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. Maggie Fergusson interviewed him several times and is the only biographer to whom he gave his blessing. Through his letters and through conversations with his acquaintance, she discovers that his life was vivid and surprising.
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    Restless - Hardback - William Boyd
    What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? Ruth Gilmartin discovers the strange and haunting truth about her mother, Sally, during the long hot summer of 1976.
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    The Tenderness Of Wolves - Paperback - Stef Penney
    As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a woman steers herself for the journey of a lifetime. A man has been brutally murdered and her 17-year old son has disappeared. To clear her son's name, she has no choice but to follow the tracks leaving the dead man's cabin.

The five category winners will be announced on 10th January 2007, and the final Costa Book of the Year winner will be announced at a ceremony on 7th February 2007.

Wednesday 29th November 2006