Stef Penney - Winner of 2006 Costa Book of the Year Award

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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[bulakaiser]

Great videos - thank you! Do you have any footage from the Whitbread years?

[costabookawards]

Not at the moment, but it's something for us to consider.

[xxxini]

Nice video Stef! I`m readng your book at the moment!

Love the place where they took the interview. Want to go there when we are at London again? Love, Ineke