The Costa First Novel Award

Costa Coffee announced 1 June 2006 a new sponsorship deal and took over the prestigious Whitbread Book Awards.

The First Novel Award receives £5,000. See the Costa Book Awards site.

2007

What Was Lost Winner

Catherine O'Flynn

A Golden Age

Tahmima Anam

Gifted

Nikita Lalwani

Mosquito

Roma Tearne

2006

The Tenderness of Wolves Winner (also Book of the Year)

Stef Penney

The Meaning of Night

Michael Cox

Cloth Girl

Marilyn Heward Mills

The Amnesia Clinic

James Scudamore