The 2008 Costa Book Awards were also announced. Sadie Jones's The Outcast won the first novel award. Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture won the novel award. Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End won the biography award. Adam Foulds's The Broken Word won the poetry award.
The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction announced its 2009 nominees: Elizabeth Abbott's Sugar: A Bittersweet History, Tim Cook's Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917 – 1918, Volume Two, and Ana Siljak's Angel of Vengeance: The "Girl Assassin," the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World.
The Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2009 Edgar Awards. The nominees for best novel are: Missing by Karin Alvtegen, Blue Heaven by C.J. Box, Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno, The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes, The Night Following by Morag Joss, and Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz. You can view the rest of the nominees here.
The nominees for the Dilys Award, given by the Independent Mystery Bookseller's Association, are: Trigger City by Sean Chercover, The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler, Silent in the Sanctuary by Deanna Raybourn, Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith, and The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow.
And just to be different, Citizen Reader has announced her picks for the Worst Books of 2008. Included on her list are Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded and Oprah's latest pick, David Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.
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