2019 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Sara Collins
2018 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
2017 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
2016 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Golden Hill
Francis Spufford
2013 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Shock of the Fall
Nathan Filer
2010 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Witness the Night
Kishwar Desai
2009 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Beauty
Raphael Selbourne
2003 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre
2002 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Song of Names
Norman Lebrecht
2001 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Something Like A House
Sid Smith
2000 Costa Book Award – First Novel
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
1999 Costa Book Award – First Novel
White City Blue
Tim Lott
1998 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Last King of Scotland
Giles Foden
1995 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson
1993 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Saving Agnes
Rachel Cusk
1992 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Swing Hammer Swing!
Jeff Torrington
1991 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Alma Cogan
Gordon Burn
1990 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Buddha of Suburbia
Hanif Kureishi
1989 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Gerontius
James Hamilton-Paterson
1988 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Comforts of Madness
Paul Sayer
1987 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Other Garden
Francis Wyndham
1986 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Continent
Jim Crace
1985 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
1984 Costa Book Award – First Novel
A Parish of Rich Women
James Buchan
1983 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Flying to Nowhere
John Fuller
1982 Costa Book Award – First Novel
On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin
1981 Costa Book Award – First Novel
A Good Man in Africa
William Boyd
1975 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke
Ruth Spalding
1974 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
Claire Tomalin
2015 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Loney
Andrew Michael Hurley
2014 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Elizabeth Is Missing
Emma Healey
2012 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Innocents
Francesca Segal
2011 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
Christie Watson
2008 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Outcast
Sadie Jones
2007 Costa Book Award – First Novel
What Was Lost
Catherine O’Flynn
2006 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney
2005 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Harmony Silk Factory
Tash Aw
2004 Costa Book Award – First Novel
Eve Green
Susan Fletcher
1997 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Ventriloquist’s Tale
Pauline Melville
1996 Costa Book Award – First Novel
The Debt to Pleasure
John Lanchester
1994 Costa Book Award – First Novel
