Jan 03 2018
The category award winners for the UK's Costa awards have been presented. The overall winner will be named January 30.
First novel: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman
Novel: Reservoir 13, by Jon McGregor
Biography: In the Days of Rain, by Rebecca Stott
Children's: The Explorer, by Katherine Rundell
Poetry: Inside The Wave by Helen Dunmore (who died last June)
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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