Costa Book Awards category winners announced
Award-winning short story writer Ingrid Persaud scoops the Costa First Novel Award for her ‘outstanding’ debut novel set in Trinidad, Love After Love. Writer and memoirist Monique Roffey triumphs in the Costa Novel Award category, winning her first major UK literary prize for her seventh book, The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story. Lee […]
Riot Director Adele Minchin on how the PR industry can help colleagues thrive, simply by listening to their needs
Aged seven, my son was diagnosed with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), also known as dyspraxia. Lots of well-known figures also have the condition including Daniel Radcliffe, Cara Delevigne, Florence Welch and Albert Einstein was even believed to have had dyspraxia. You have probably known someone with dyspraxia and been unaware of their condition – the […]
Riot x Costa Coffee Christmas Campaign
100,000 books gifted across the nation by Christmas Eve, in partnership with leading charity The Reading Agency Bestselling authors lend their support to the campaign to share the joy of reading, including Malorie Blackman, Simon Callow, Candice Carty-Williams, Konnie Huq, Michael Morpurgo, Andy McNab, Bobby Seagull and Jacqueline Wilson Costa Coffee, the Nation’s Favourite Coffee […]
Costa Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced
20 authors announced today across five categories for the only major UK book prize open solely to authors resident in the UK and Ireland. 2020 shortlists feature 10 debuts, four previously shortlisted authors, two all-female category shortlists and author ages ranging from 28-74. The First Novel category shortlist includes a ‘highly original’ small-town portrait of […]
