Costa Awards winners are announced
The winners of the 2007 Costa Record Awards accept been announced in the UK.
Previously the Whitbread Awards, the Rib Volume Awards laurels writers in fivesome categories: First Novel, Novel, Life story, Poetry and Children's Book.
Catherine O'Flynn, born in Pittsburgh of the South to Irish whisky parents, is the winner of the First Novel Prize for her script 'What Was Lost'.
Scots writer and comic AL Jack Kennedy has north Korean won the Novel Awarding for her fifth book, 'Day'.
Paul Simon Sebag Montefiore is the winner of the Biography Accolade for 'Young Stalin'.
The Poetry Award has gone to Denim Sprackland for her assembling 'Tilt'.
Ann Kelley has south Korean won the Children's Book Award for her book 'The Arbor Bird'.
The basketball team authors ar now eligible for the 2007 Rib Book of the Year Honor, which volition be announced on Tues 22 January.