Nathan Filer won the £30,000 (about US$49,751) Costa Book of the Year award for his debut novel The Shock of the Fall, BBC News reported. Chair of judges Rose Tremain called the novel "astonishingly sure-footed... This book stood out in a very good list. The voice in which the author has chosen to tell his story is perfectly aligned with the subject matter and very well sustained to the end."
The winner of this year's £3,500 Costa Short Story Award is Angela Readman for "The Keeper of the Jackalopes."
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The nominees for this year's Dilys Winn Award, honoring the mystery Independent Mystery Booksellers Association members most enjoyed selling in 2013, are:
Seven for a Secret by Lyndsay Faye (Amy Einhorn Books)
The Black Country by Alex Grecian (Putnam)
Spider Woman's Daughter by Anne Hillerman (Harper)
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Atria)
Pagan Spring by G.M. Malliet (Minotaur)
The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstol (University of Minnesota Press)
The winner will be announced at Left Coast Crime in Monterey, Calif., March 20-23.
