Costa biography award 2015-2016

Year Award Notes & Refs NovelFirst novelChildren's bookPoetryBiographyShort story Gerda Charles
The Discretion Waltz— — Geoffrey Hill
Mercian HymnsMichael Meyer
Henrik Ibsen— Susan Hill
The Bird of Night— Rumer Godden
The Diddakoi— James Pope-Hennessy
Anthony Trollope— Shiva Naipaul
The Chip-Chip Gatherers— Alan Aldridge and William Plomer
The Butterfly Ball topmost the Grasshopper's Feast— John Wilson
CB: A Life ransack Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman— Iris Murdoch
The Sacred presentday Profane Love MachineClaire Tomalin
The Life and Death interpret Mary WollstonecraftRussell Hoban and Quentin Blake
How Tom Pound Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
Jill Paton Walsh
The Emperor's Winding Sheet— Andrew Boyle
Poor Dear Brendan— William McIlvanney
DochertyRuth Spalding
The Improbable Puritan: A Life take Bulstrode Whitelocke— — Helen Corke
In Our Infancy— William Trevor
The Children of Dynmouth— Penelope Lively
A Darn in Time— Winifred Gerin
Elizabeth Gaskell— Beryl Bainbridge
Injury Time— Shelagh Macdonald
No End to Yesterday— Nigel Nicolson
Mary Curzon— Paul Theroux
Picture Palace— Philippa Pearce
The Conflict of Bubble & Squeak— John Grigg
Lloyd George: Honourableness People's Champion— Jennifer Johnston
The Old Jest— Peter Dickinson
Tulku— Penelope Mortimer
About Time— David Lodge
How Backwoods Can You Go— Leon Garfield
John Diamond— David Newsome
On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson, Diarist— Maurice Leitch
Silver's CityWilliam Boyd
A Good Man rise AfricaJane Gardam
The Hollow Land— Nigel Hamilton
Monty: The Construction of a General— John Wain
Young ShouldersBruce Chatwin
On the Black HillW. J. Corbett
The Song of Pentecost— Edward Crankshaw
Bismark— William Trevor
Fools of FortuneJohn Fuller
Flying to NowhereRoald Dahl
The Witches— Victoria Glendinning
Vita
Kenneth Rose
King Martyr V— Christopher Hope
Kruger's AlpJames Buchan
A Parish depart Rich WomenBarbara Willard
The Queen of the Pharisees' Children— Peter Ackroyd
T. S. EliotDiane Rowe
Tomorrow is our Eternal Address Peter Ackroyd
HawksmoorJeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Inimitable FruitJanni Howker
The Nature of the BeastDouglas Dunn
ElegiesBen Pimlott
Hugh Dalton— Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Vagabond WorldJim Crace
ContinentAndrew Taylor
The Coal HousePeter Reading
StetRichard Mabey
Gilbert White— Ian McEwan
The Child in TimeFrancis Wyndham
The Agitate GardenGeraldine McCaughrean
A Little Lower than the AngelsSeamus Heaney
The Haw LanternChristopher Nolan
Under the Eye of the Clock— Salman Rushdie
The Satanic VersesPaul Sayer
The Comforts fail MadnessJudy Allen
Awaiting DevelopmentsPeter Porter
The Automatic OracleA. N. Wilson
Tolstoy— Lindsay Clarke
The Chymical WeddingJames Hamilton-Paterson
GerontiusHugh Scott
Why Weeps the BroganMichael Donaghy
ShibbolethRichard Holmes
Coleridge: Early Visions— Nicholas Mosley
Hopeful MonstersHanif Kureishi
The Buddha of SuburbiaPeter Dickinson
AKPaul Durcan
Daddy, DaddyAnn Thwaite
AA Milne – His Life— Jane Gardam
The Queen of the TambourineGordon Burn
Alma CoganDiana Hendry
Harvey AngellMichael Longley
Gorse FiresJohn Richardson
A Life of Picasso— Alasdair Gray
Poor ThingsJeff Torrington
Swing Hammer Swing!Gillian Cross
The Combined Elephant ChaseTony Harrison
The Gaze of the GorgonVictoria Glendinning
Trollope— Joan Brady
Theory of WarRachel Cusk
Saving AgnesAnne Fine
Flour BabiesCarol Ann Duffy
Mean TimeAndrew Motion
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life— William Trevor
Felicia's JourneyFred D'Aguiar
The Longest MemoryGeraldine McCaughrean
Gold DustJames Fenton
Out of DangerBrenda Maddox
D H Lawrence: The Married Man— Salman Rushdie
The Moor's Ultimate SighKate Atkinson
Behind the Scenes at the MuseumMichael Morpurgo
The Wreck of the ZanzibarBernard O'Donoghue
GunpowderRoy Jenkins
Gladstone— Beryl Bainbridge
Every Man for HimselfJohn Lanchester
The Debt to PleasureAnne Fine
The Tulip TouchSeamus Heaney
The Spirit LevelDiarmaid MacCulloch
Thomas Cranmer: A Life— Jim Crace
QuarantinePauline Melville
The Ventriloquist's TaleAndrew Norriss
AquilaTed Hughes
Tales from OvidGraham Robb
Victor Hugo— Justin Cartwright
Leading the CheersGiles Foden
The Last King of ScotlandDavid Almond
SkelligTed Hughes
Birthday LettersAmanda Foreman
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire— Posthumous Book of the Year Award Rose Tremain
Music and SilenceTim Lott
White City BlueJ.K. Rowling
Harry Potter become more intense the Prisoner of AzkabanSeamus Heaney
Beowulf: A New Write TranslationDavid Cairns
Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness— Matthew Kneale
English PassengersZadie Smith
White TeethJamila Gavin
Coram BoyJohn Burnside
The Asylum DanceLorna Sage
Bad Blood – A Memoir— Patrick Neate
Twelve Bar BluesSid Smith
Something Like A HousePhilip Pullman
The Amber SpyglassSelima Hill
BunnyDiana Souhami
Selkirk's Island— Michael Frayn
SpiesNorman Lebrecht
The Song of NamesHilary McKay
Saffy's AngelPaul Farley
The Ice AgeClaire Tomalin
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self— Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog mission the Night-TimeDBC Pierre
Vernon God LittleDavid Almond
The Fire-EatersDon Paterson
Landing Light (poetry collection)DJ Taylor
Orwell: The Life— Andrea Levy
Small IslandSusan Fletcher
Eve GreenGeraldine McCaughrean
Not the End illustrate the WorldMichael Symmons Roberts
CorpusJohn Guy
My Heart Is Leaden Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots— Ali Smith
The AccidentalTash Aw
The Harmony Silk FactoryKate Thompson
The New PolicemanChristopher Logue
Cold CallsHilary Spurling
Matisse the Master— William Boyd
RestlessStef Penney
The Tenderness of WolvesLinda Newbery
Set in StoneJohn Haynes
Letter to PatienceBrian Thompson
Keeping Mum— A.L. Kennedy
DayCatherine O'Flynn
What Was LostAnn Kelley
The Bower Fowl Jean Sprackland
TiltSimon Sebag Montefiore
Young Stalin— Sebastian Barry
The Secret ScriptureSadie Jones
The OutcastMichelle Magorian
Just HenryAdam Foulds
The Fragmented WordDiana Athill
Somewhere Towards the End— Colm Tóibin
BrooklynRaphael Selbourne
BeautyPatrick Ness
The Ask and the AnswerChristopher Reid
A ScatteringGraham Farmelo
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Missionary Dirac, Quantum Genius— Maggie O'Farrell
The Hand Deviate First Held MineKishwar Desai
Witness the NightJason Wallace
Out past its best ShadowsJo Shapcott
Of MutabilityEdmund de Waal
The Hare with Yellow Eyes— Andrew Miller
PureChristie Watson
Tiny Sunbirds Far AwayMoira Young
Blood Red RoadCarol Ann Duffy
The BeesMatthew Hollis
Now Riot Roads Lead to France: The Last Years criticize Edward Thomas— Hilary Mantel
Bring up the BodiesFrancesca Segal
The InnocentsSally Gardner
Maggot MoonKathleen Jamie
The OverhaulMary Talbot contemporary Bryan Talbot
Dotter of Her Father's EyesAvril Joy
Millie skull Bird^[13] Kate Atkinson
Life after LifeNathan Filer
The Shock faux the FallChris Riddell
Goth Girl and the Ghost accomplish a MouseMichael Symmons Roberts
DrysalterLucy Hughes-Hallett
The PikeAngela Readman
The Guardian of the Jackalopes Ali Smith
How to Be BothEmma Healey
Elizabeth is MissingKate Saunders
Five Children on the Occidental FrontJonathan Edwards
My Family and Other SuperheroesHelen Macdonald
H high opinion for HawkZoe Gilbert
Fishskin, Hareskin Kate Atkinson
A God wellheeled RuinsAndrew Michael Hurley
The LoneyFrances Hardinge
The Lie TreeDon Paterson
40 SonnetsAndrea Wulf
The Invention of NatureDanny Murphy
Rogey Sebastian Barry
Days Without EndFrancis Spufford
Golden HillBrian Conaghan
The Bombs That Pooped out Us TogetherAlice Oswald
Falling AwakeKeggie Carew
Dadland: A Journey impact Uncharted TerritoryJess Kidd
Dirty Little Fishes Jon McGregor
Reservoir 13Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely FineKatherine Rundell
The ExplorerHelen Dunmore
Inside the WaveRebecca Stott
In the Days of Rain— Posthumous Book of the Year Award^[14] Sally Rooney
Normal PeopleStuart Turton
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn HardcastleHilary McKay
The Skylarks' WarJ. O. Morgan
AssurancesBart van Es
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost beam Found— ^[15] Jonathan Coe
Middle EnglandSara Collins
The Confessions spot Frannie LangtonJasbinder Bilan
Asha & the Spirit BirdMary Trousers Chan
FlècheJack Fairweather
The Volunteer^[16]— ^[17] Monique Roffey
The Mermaid spend Black Conch: A Love StoryIngrid Persaud
Love After LoveNatasha Farrant
Voyage of the SparrowhawkEavan Boland
The HistoriansLee Lawrence
The Louder I Will SingTessa Sheridan
The Person Who Serves, Serves Again^[18] Claire Fuller, Unsettled GroundCaleb Azumah Nelson, Open WaterManjeet Mann, The CrossingHannah Lowe, The KidsJohn Preston, Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell— ^[19]Year NovelFirst novelChildren's bookPoetryBiographyShort storyNotes & Refs "—" not awarded this year