7 Best Costa Book Award Winners UK Readers Adore (2026 Guide)

A couple in a modern British living room with a large bay window and sash frames, reading novels featuring gold Costa Book Award winner stickers. Costa Book Award winners

The Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards) held a special place in British literary culture for half a century, recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland from 1971 to 2021. According to Wikipedia’s comprehensive history, the awards were discontinued in 2022, though the legacy of these remarkable books continues to … Read more