Jean Sprackland, winner of the 2007 Costa Poetry Award, talks about his book, Tilt.
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Jean Sprackland, winner of the 2007 Costa Poetry Award, talks about his book, Tilt.
This short film, commissioned by Costa Coffee, was shown at the Costa book of the Year awards ceremony in London on February 2008. The film made by Charles Turley at CTA Limited.
About the book:
Jean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in freefall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and hurricane; trains stand still, zoos are abandoned, migrating birds lose their way - all surfaces are unreliable, all territories unmapped. These poems explore the ambivalence and dark unease of slippage and collapse, but also carry a powerful sense of the miraculous made manifest amongst the ordinary.
About the author:
Jean Sprackland was born and brought up in Burton-on-Trent and now lives in Southport, Merseyside. She studied English and Philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury, then taught for a number of years before beginning to write poetry aged 30. Her first collection of poetry, Tattoos for Mothers Day, was shortlisted for the Forward First Book Award in 1999. Her second collection, Hard Water, was published by Cape in 2003 and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award and the Whitbread Poetry Award. In 2004, Jean Sprackland was named by the Poetry Book Society as one of the 'Next Generation' poets. She has held residencies in schools and universities, and is a tutor for the Arvon Foundation.
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Catherine O'Flynn, winner of the 2007 Costa First Novel Award, talks about her book, What
Catherine O'Flynn, winner of the 2007 Costa First Novel Award, talks about her book, What was Lost.
This short film, commissioned by Costa Coffee, was shown at the Costa book of the Year awards ceremony in London on February 2008. The film made by Charles Turley at CTA Limited.
About the book:
A lost little girl with her notebook and toy monkey appears on the CCTV screens of the Green Oaks shopping centre, evoking memories of junior detective, Kate Meaney, missing for 20 years. Kurt, a security guard with a sleep disorder and Lisa, a disenchanted deputy manager at Your Music, follow her through the centre's endless corridors - welcome relief from customers, colleagues and the Green Oaks mystery shopper. But, as this after-hours friendship grows in intensity, it brings new loss and new longing to light.
About the author:
Catherine O'Flynn was born in Birmingham in 1970 to Irish parents, The youngest of six children, she grew up in and around her parents' sweet shop. She has worked as a teacher, a web editor, a mystery customer and a postwoman. What Was Lost was rejected 15 times before being taken on by Birmingham-based publisher, Tindal Street Press. It has since been Radio 5 Live's Book of the Month, and been longlisted or shortlisted for literary awards including the Orange Prize and Man Booker. After a few years in Barcelona, Catherine now lives in Birmingham where she works in the box office of the local arts centre.
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Ann Kelley, winner of the 2007 Costa Children's Book Award, talks about her book, The Bowe
Ann Kelley, winner of the 2007 Costa Children's Book Award, talks about her book, The Bower Bird.
This short film, commissioned by Costa Coffee, was shown at the Costa book of the Year awards ceremony in London on February 2008. The film made by Charles Turley at CTA Limited.
About the book:
Gussie lives in Cornwall and, like most twelve-year-olds, is quickly growing up. She is also awaiting news of a heart transplant operation. When Gussie moves from the coast to a new house in town, she rebels, discovers her ancestors and an interest in photography, falls in love and has parent troubles - all whilst experiencing general adolescent angst and trying not to wait for what might never happen.
About the author:
Ann Kelley is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip and a lightning strike. The Bower Bird, Ann's second novel, is partly based on her first-born son, Nathan, who was born with a congenital heart and lung condition. He died 20 years ago at the age of 24, a week after a heart and lung transplant. Ann runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore, winner of the 2007 Costa Biography Award, talks about his book, Yo
Simon Sebag Montefiore, winner of the 2007 Costa Biography Award, talks about his book, Young Stalin.
This short film, commissioned by Costa Coffee, was shown at the Costa book of the Year awards ceremony in London on February 2008. The film made by Charles Turley at CTA Limited.
About the book:
Stalin, like Hitler, remains the personification of evil but also one of the creators of today's world. Based on massive research and astonishing new evidence in archives from Moscow to Georgia, Young Stalin is a chronicle of the Revolution, a pre-history of the USSR and an intimate biography unveiling the shadowy, adventurous journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who was to become the Red Tsar.
About the author:
Simon Sebag Montefiore is a historian and writer. Born in 1965 and educated at Harrow School and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, he spent much of the nineties travelling through the ex-Soviet Empire, particularly the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Asia, writing widely on Russia, especially for The Sunday Times, The New York Times and The Spectator. Young Stalin is the prequel and companion to Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar which won the History Book of the Year Prize at the 2004 British Book Awards. He has also published Catherine the Great & Potemkin, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography Prizes, and 101 World Heroes; an illustrated selection of great men and women from history. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, novelist, and television presenter, Montefiore lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children. He is currently writing Jerusalem: the Biography, a fresh history of the Middle East.
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A.L. Kennedy, winner of the 2007 Costa Novel Award, talks about her book, Day.
This sho
A.L. Kennedy, winner of the 2007 Costa Novel Award, talks about her book, Day.
This short film, commissioned by Costa Coffee, was shown at the Costa book of the Year awards ceremony in London on February 2008. The film made by Charles Turley at CTA Limited.
About the book:
Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Now, in 1949, Alfred is winding back time to see where he lost himself. He has taken the role of an extra in a POW film. Shipped out to Germany and an ersatz camp, he picks his way through the clichés that will become all that's left of his war and begins to do what he's never dared - to remember. He is looking for some semblance of hope: trying to move forward by going back.
About the author:
A.L. Kennedy is a novelist and stand-up comedian. She has published four previous novels, two books of non-fiction, and three collections of short stories, most recently Indelible Acts. She also writes for the stage, radio, film and TV. She has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a number of prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. A.L. Kennedy lives in Glasgow and is currently an Associate Professor with the Warwick University Creative Writing Programme.
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Stef Penney, winner of the 2006 Costa Book of the Year Award, talks about her book The Ten
Stef Penney, winner of the 2006 Costa Book of the Year Award, talks about her book The Tenderness of Wolves.
The interview, commissioned by Costa, was shown at the Costa book of the Year awards ceremony in London on Wednesday 7th February 2007.
The Costa Book Awards recognise the most enjoyable books of the last year by writers based in the UK and Ireland.
First-time writer Stef Penney, won the Award for The Tenderness of Wolves - a murder mystery set in the snowy landscapes of Canada. Penney, a recently recovered agoraphobic, researched The Tenderness of Wolves at The British Library in London and has never been to Canada.
The Tenderness of Wolves beat odds-on favourite Keeping Mum by Brian Thompson, novelist William Boyd for Restless, poet John Haynes for Letter to Patience and children's book Set in Stone by Linda Newbery.
For more info, see http://www.costabookawards.com
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The Costa Foundation supports projects in coffee-growing communities such as this one in N
The Costa Foundation supports projects in coffee-growing communities such as this one in Ntungamo, Uganda. For more information on the work of Costa Coffee and the Costa Foundation, visit http://www.thecostafoundation.org
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A video of the progress made at Anatoli in Colombia on the playground and other projects a
A video of the progress made at Anatoli in Colombia on the playground and other projects around the school. The work has been supported by funds from the Costa Foundation, of Costa Coffee. More info can be found at http://www.thecostafoundation.org
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A video of the progress made at Anatoli in Colombia; during a visit by the Costa Coffee te
A video of the progress made at Anatoli in Colombia; during a visit by the Costa Coffee team. Much work has been done on the new school supported by funds from the Costa Foundation. More info can be found at http://www.thecostafoundation.com
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