Costa Book Awards — Biography Home › Costa Book Awards › Biography Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston 2021CostaBiography The Louder I Will Sing by Lee Lawrence 2020CostaBiography The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather 2019CostaBiography The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es 2018CostaBiography In the Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott 2017CostaBiography Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew 2016CostaBiography The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf 2015CostaBiography H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald 2014CostaBiography The Pike by Lucy Hughes-Hallett 2013CostaBiography Dotter of Her Father's Eyes by Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot 2012CostaBiography Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas 2011CostaBiography The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal 2010CostaBiography The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo 2009CostaBiography Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill 2008CostaBiography Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore 2007CostaBiography Keeping Mum by Brian Thompson 2006CostaBiography Matisse the Master by Hilary Spurling 2005CostaBiography My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy 2004CostaBiography Orwell: The Life by DJ Taylor 2003CostaBiography Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin 2002CostaBiography Selkirk's Island by Diana Souhami 2001CostaBiography Bad Blood– A Memoir 2000CostaBiography Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness by David Cairns 1999CostaBiography Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman 1998CostaBiography Victor Hugo by Graham Robb 1997CostaBiography Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch 1996CostaBiography Gladstone by Roy Jenkins 1995CostaBiography D H Lawrence: The Married Man by Brenda Maddox 1994CostaBiography Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion 1993CostaBiography Trollope by Victoria Glendinning 1992CostaBiography A Life of Picasso by John Richardson 1991CostaBiography AA Milne – His Life by Ann Thwaite 1990CostaBiography Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes 1989CostaBiography Tolstoy by A. N. Wilson 1988CostaBiography Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan 1987CostaBiography Gilbert White by Richard Mabey 1986CostaBiography Hugh Dalton by Ben Pimlott 1985CostaBiography T. S. Eliot by Peter Ackroyd 1984CostaBiography Vita by Victoria Glendinning 1983CostaBiography Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw 1982CostaBiography Monty: The Making of a General by Nigel Hamilton 1981CostaBiography On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson, Diarist by David Newsome 1980CostaBiography About Time by Penelope Mortimer 1979CostaBiography Lloyd George: The People's Champion by John Grigg 1978CostaBiography Mary Curzon by Nigel Nicolson 1977CostaBiography Elizabeth Gaskell by Winifred Gerin 1976CostaBiography In Our Infancy by Helen Corke 1975CostaBiography Poor Dear Brendan by Andrew Boyle 1974CostaBiography CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman by John Wilson 1973CostaBiography Anthony Trollope by James Pope-Hennessy 1972CostaBiography Henrik Ibsen by Michael Meyer 1971CostaBiography
