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Costa Book Awards: Hilary Mantel takes on graphic novel

The Costa Book Awards have for the first time nominated two graphic books, in the novel and biography categories.

Hilary Mantel and Joff Winterhart were nominated for the Costa Prize shortlist on Wednesday
Hilary Mantel and Joff Winterhart were nominated for the Costa Prize shortlist on Wednesday 

The shortlists for the Costa Book Awards announced today pit established names such as Hilary Mantel and Artemis Cooper against graphic novelist Joff Winterhart and graphic memoirists Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot.

There are five categories in all -- novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children's -- each with four books on each shortlist. After the winner of each category is announced (and is awarded £5,000) the five books compete for the overall Costa Prize worth £30,000.

In the novel category Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies is shortlisted alongside Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart, a graphic novel that charts the relationship between 52-year-old librarian Sue and her 15-year-old son Daniel. The other two books nominated are Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May, the author's second novel, and journalist and novelist James Meek's The Heart Broke In.

In the biography category three traditional titles -- Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper, The Crocodile by the Door by Selina Guinness and Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard -- are up against the remarkable Dotter of her Father’s Eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot, in which the tortured life of James Joyce's daughter Lucia is compared with that of one of the author's Mary Talbot, whose father was an eminent Joyce scholar.

The poetry award has debut collection Bee Journal by Sean Borodale, a verse account of being an apiarist, up against another nature poet Kathleen Jamie for The Overhaul. The other two shortlisted titles are The World’s Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus and People Who Like Meatballs by Selima Hill.

The best first novel shortlist is as follows: The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by JW Ironmonger, Snake Ropes by Jess Richards, The Innocents by Francesca Segal and The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood. The best children's book shortlist has Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner, The Seeing by Diana Hendry, What’s up with Jody Barton? by Hayley Long, and A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton.

The overall winner will be announced in London on January 29 2013.

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