Children's Book

• Jason Wallace
  Jason Wallace
  Jason Wallace is a web designer , living in South West London . He is the author of Out of Shadows, the 2010 Costa Children's Book of the Year .- Personal Life :...
  
  , Out of Shadows

• Lucy Christopher
  Lucy Christopher
  Lucy Christopher is a British/Australian author best known for her novel Stolen, which won the Branford Boase award 2010 in the UK, and the 2010 Gold Inky in Australia. Her second book, Flyaway, was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards 2010...
  
  , Flyaway
• Sharon Dogar, Annexed
• Jonathan Stroud
  Jonathan Stroud
  Jonathan Anthony Stroud is an author of fantasy books, mainly for children and young adults.-Biography:Born in 1970 in Bedford, England, Stroud began to write stories at a very young age. He grew up in St Albans where he enjoyed reading books, drawing pictures, and writing stories...
  
  , Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon

First Novel

• Kishwar Desai, Witness the Night

• Nikesh Shukla, Coconut Unlimited
• Aatish Taseer
  Aatish Taseer
  Aatish Taseer , is British-born writer-journalist, and the son of Indian journalist Tavleen Singh and late Pakistani politician and businessman Salmaan Taseer.-Early life:...
  
  , The Temple-Goers
• Simon Thirsk, Not Quite White

Novel

• Maggie O'Farrell
  Maggie O'Farrell
  Maggie O'Farrell is a British author of contemporary fiction, who features in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future It is possible to identify several common themes in her novels – the relationship between sisters is one, another is loss and the psychological impact of those losses on the lives...
  
  , The Hand That First Held Mine

• Louise Doughty
  Louise Doughty
  Louise Doughty is an English novelist, playwright and journalist from a Romany background. Doughty is an alumna of the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course....
  
  , Whatever You Love
• Nigel Farndale
  Nigel Farndale
  Nigel Farndale is a British author and journalist, known for his award-winning interviews in the Sunday Telegraph.He has written five books: two novels, two biographies and a collection of interviews...
  
  , The Blasphemer
• Paul Murray
  Paul Murray (author)
  Paul Murray is an Irish novelist, the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes and Skippy Dies.-Biography:Murray was born in Dublin in 1975, the son of a professor of Anglo-Irish Drama in UCD and a teacher mother. Murray attended Blackrock College in south Dublin, an experience that would...
  
  , Skippy Dies
  Skippy Dies
  Skippy Dies is a 2010 tragicomic novel by Paul Murray. It was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards, longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.-Plot:...
  
  

Biography

• Edmund de Waal
  Edmund de Waal
  Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal OBE is a British ceramic artist, and author of The Hare with Amber Eyes . He has worked as a curator, lecturer, art critic and art historian and is a Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster. He has received several awards and honours for his...
  
  , The Hare with Amber Eyes
  The Hare with Amber Eyes
  The Hare with Amber Eyes is a family memoir by British ceramicist Edmund de Waal. Waal tells the story of his family the Ephrussi, who were once a very wealthy European Jewish banking dynasty centered in Odessa, Vienna and Paris, peers of the Rothschild family. The Ephrussi lost almost everything...
  
  

• Sarah Bakewell, How to Live A Life of Montaigne
• Michael Frayn
  Michael Frayn
  Michael J. Frayn is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy...
  
  , My Father's Fortune

Poetry

• Jo Shapcott
  Jo Shapcott
  Jo Shapcott FRSL, is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award.-Career:...
  
  , Of Mutability

• Roy Fisher
  Roy Fisher
  Roy Fisher is a British poet and jazz pianist. He was one of the first British writers to absorb the poetics of William Carlos Williams and the Black Mountain poets into the British poetic tradition. Fisher was a key precursor of the British Poetry Revival.Fisher was born in Handsworth, Birmingham...
  
  , Standard Midland
• Robin Robertson
  Robin Robertson
  Robin Robertson is a Scottish poet.-Biography:Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, but has spent most of his professional life in London...
  
  , The Wrecking Light
• Sam Willetts, New Light for the Old Dark

External links

• "Costa prize shortlist falls short on biographies", Mark Brown, The Guardian, 16 November 2010
• "Costa judge laments a weak year for fiction", Arifa Akbar, The Independent, 17 November 2010