Biography Award Winners • Living Canon

Biography Award-Winning Books

Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
2021 Costa Novel
The Kids by Hannah Lowe
2021 Costa Poetry
The Crossing by Manjeet Mann
2021 Costa Children's
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
2021 Costa First Novel
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston
2021 Costa Biography
Voyage of the Sparrowhawk by Natasha Farrant
2020 Costa Children's
The Person Who Serves, Serves Again by Tessa Sheridan
2020 Costa Short Story
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story by Monique Roffey
2020 Costa Novel
The Louder I Will Sing by Lee Lawrence
2020 Costa Biography
The Historians by Eavan Boland
2020 Costa Poetry
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
2020 Costa First Novel
The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather
2019 Costa Biography
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
2019 Costa First Novel
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
2019 Costa Novel
Flèche by Mary Jean Chan
2019 Costa Poetry
Asha & the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan
2019 Costa Children's
The Skylarks' War by Hilary McKay
2018 Costa Children's
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
2018 Costa First Novel
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es
2018 Costa Biography
Normal People by Sally Rooney
2018 Costa Novel
Assurances by J. O. Morgan
2018 Costa Poetry
The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
2017 Costa Children's
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
2017 Costa Novel
Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore
2017 Costa Poetry
In the Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott
2017 Costa Biography