Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f Costa Book Award – First Novel 2019 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Confessions of Frannie Langton Sara Collins Amazon 2018 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton Amazon 2017 Costa Book Award – First Novel Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman Amazon 2016 Costa Book Award – First Novel Golden Hill Francis Spufford Amazon 2013 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Shock of the Fall Nathan Filer Amazon 2010 Costa Book Award – First Novel Witness the Night Kishwar Desai Amazon 2009 Costa Book Award – First Novel Beauty Raphael Selbourne Amazon 2003 Costa Book Award – First Novel Vernon God Little DBC Pierre Amazon 2002 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Song of Names Norman Lebrecht Amazon 2001 Costa Book Award – First Novel Something Like A House Sid Smith Amazon 2000 Costa Book Award – First Novel White Teeth Zadie Smith Amazon 1999 Costa Book Award – First Novel White City Blue Tim Lott Amazon 1998 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Last King of Scotland Giles Foden Amazon 1995 Costa Book Award – First Novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson Amazon 1993 Costa Book Award – First Novel Saving Agnes Rachel Cusk Amazon 1992 Costa Book Award – First Novel Swing Hammer Swing! Jeff Torrington Amazon 1991 Costa Book Award – First Novel Alma Cogan Gordon Burn Amazon 1990 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi Amazon 1989 Costa Book Award – First Novel Gerontius James Hamilton-Paterson Amazon 1988 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Comforts of Madness Paul Sayer Amazon 1987 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Other Garden Francis Wyndham Amazon 1986 Costa Book Award – First Novel Continent Jim Crace Amazon 1985 Costa Book Award – First Novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson Amazon 1984 Costa Book Award – First Novel A Parish of Rich Women James Buchan Amazon 1983 Costa Book Award – First Novel Flying to Nowhere John Fuller Amazon 1982 Costa Book Award – First Novel On the Black Hill Bruce Chatwin Amazon 1981 Costa Book Award – First Novel A Good Man in Africa William Boyd Amazon 1975 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke Ruth Spalding Amazon 1974 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Claire Tomalin Amazon 2015 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Loney Andrew Michael Hurley Amazon 2014 Costa Book Award – First Novel Elizabeth Is Missing Emma Healey Amazon 2012 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Innocents Francesca Segal Amazon 2011 Costa Book Award – First Novel Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away Christie Watson Amazon 2008 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Outcast Sadie Jones Amazon 2007 Costa Book Award – First Novel What Was Lost Catherine O’Flynn Amazon 2006 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Tenderness of Wolves Stef Penney Amazon 2005 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Harmony Silk Factory Tash Aw Amazon 2004 Costa Book Award – First Novel Eve Green Susan Fletcher Amazon 1997 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Ventriloquist’s Tale Pauline Melville Amazon 1996 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Debt to Pleasure John Lanchester Amazon 1994 Costa Book Award – First Novel The Longest Memory Fred D’Aguiar Amazon