2010 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner
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The Hand That First Held Mine
Maggie O’Farrell
Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Hedged in by her parents’ genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who wears duck-egg blue ties and introduces her to the thri…
2010 Costa Book Award – Novel Shortlist
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Skippy Dies
Paul Murray
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The Blasphemer
Nigel Farndale
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