RCW Authors Shortlisted for Costa Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Useful Verses by Richard Osmond, Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans and The Explorer by Katherine Rundell have been shortlisted for Costa Book Awards 2017. Useful Verses has been nominated for the Poetry Award, while Wed Wabbit and The Explorer have both been shortlisted for the Children's Book Award.
The Costa Book Awards honour some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the UK and Ireland. There are five categories - First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book - with one of the five winners chosen as Book of the Year. The awards will be announced in January 2018.
For more information, please see here.
(Agent for Richard Osmond: Matthew Turner; Agent for Lissa Evans: Georgia Garrett; Agent for Katherine Rundell: Claire Wilson)
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