Sebastian Barry, Keggie Carew, Alice Oswald and first novelist Francis Spufford all take £5,000 category prizes and go into contention for overall award
It is a list of guaranteed to gladden the hearts of anyone who thinks they have left it too late to write their first book. Baby boomers, including Sebastian Barry, Keggie Carew, Francis Spufford and Alice Oswald have swept the board of category winners for the 2016 Costa book awards.
Celebrating books across five categories – novel, first novel, children’s fiction, poetry and biography – the Costa awards pit the winners of each category against each other for the overall book of the year award, to be announced this year on 31 January.
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