Kate Atkinson, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Michael Symmons Roberts, Chris Riddell and Nathan Filer have won prizes at this year's Costa awards.
Atkinson's Life After Life scooped the Costa Novel Award. The judges described Atkinson's latest novel which also won the writer UK Author of the Year at the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards in December - as "astonishing", saying: "This book does everything you could ask for in a work of fiction and so much more."
Click to view the 3 Costa winning books that are available in the USA at the time of writing.
Atkinson's Life After Life scooped the Costa Novel Award. The judges described Atkinson's latest novel which also won the writer UK Author of the Year at the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards in December - as "astonishing", saying: "This book does everything you could ask for in a work of fiction and so much more."
Click to view the 3 Costa winning books that are available in the USA at the time of writing.