Costa book award: Andrew Miller wins for sixth novel, Pure
Vivid tale of life in pre-revolutionary Paris beats Matthew Hollis's biography of Edward Thomas to £30,000 prize cheque
A vividly told story of life in pre-revolutionary Paris on Tuesday won the 2011 Costa book award in what turned out to be a bitterly fought two-way tussle between fact and fiction.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 24 January, 2012
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