English author Andrew Miller has won Britain’s $47,000 Costa Book Award for his sixth novel, Pure. Set in 18th century Paris, just four years before the French Revolution, Miller's novel is a historical thriller involving seduction, murder and suicide. A young engineer is tasked with cleaning out the congested medieval cemetery of Les Innocents, the stink of which taints the air of the surrounding neighbourhood. Before long, he begins to suspect that the cemetery's destruction might be a prelude to his own.
Miller beat out the award winners in the other categories to claim the Book of Year prize:
Best first novel: Christie Watson, Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
Poetry award: Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees
Biography award: Matthew Hollis, Now All Roads Lead to France
Children's Literature award: Moria Young, Blood Red Road (Dustlands)
The Costa Book Awards aim to name the "most enjoyable books of the year" by writers living in the U.K. or Ireland.
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