2017 Costa book awards shortlists

Novel

Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (4^th Estate)
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney (Quercus)
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury Circus)
Tin Man by Sarah Winman (Tinder Press)

First novel

The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks (Salt)
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary (Harvill Secker)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (HarperCollins)
The Haunting of Henry Twist by Rebecca F John (Serpent’s Tail)

Biography

Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo (Chatto & Windus)
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead (Chatto & Windus)
In the Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott (4^th Estate)
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table by Stephen Westaby (HarperCollins)

Poetry

Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi (Chatto & Windus)
Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore (Bloodaxe Books)
On Balance by Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet)
Useful Verses by Richard Osmond (Picador)

Children’s book

Moonrise by Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans (David Fickling Books)
The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Chicken House)
The Explorers by Katherine Rundell (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)