Costa Book Award - Book of the Year

year	name	for
1986	Kazuo Ishiguro	An Artist of the Floating World
1994	William Trevor	Felicia's Journey
1996	Seamus Heaney	The Spirit Level
1997	Ted Hughes	Tales from Ovid
2001	Philip Pullman	The Amber Spyglass
2003	Mark Haddon	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2004	Andrea Levy	Small Island
2008	Sebastian Barry	The Secret Scripture
2012	Hilary Mantel	Bring Up the Bodies

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