Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has won the Costa Poetry Award for The Bees (Picador), and debut biographer Matthew Hollis has scooped the Costa Biography Award, with both now entering the final race alongside three other category winners to be named the overall £30,000 Costa Book of the Year 2011. (Read the full story over at the Bookseller).
Former Great Ormond St. nurse Christie Watson picked up best first novel for Tiny Sunbirds Far Away and debut children's writer, Moira Young, won the children's book award for Blood Red Road.
We have five copies of The Bees for you to borrow. Visit the online catalogue to reserve your copy. You can also reserve and borrow Now All Roads Lead to France, the highly regarded debut biography of the last years of the poet Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis.
Who do you think should win the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011?
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