Costa Children’s Book Award
All shortlists for the 2009 Costa Book Awards were announced overnight. In the childen’s category we have:
- Siobhan Dowd for Solace of the Road
- Mary Hoffman for Troubadour
- Patrick Ness for The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking: Book Two)
- Anna Perera for Guantanamo Boy
The winners of each category (Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s) will be announced on January 5 and the overall winner on January 26. We see that Clive James is in the running for the Poetry Award.

