Costa Book Award Shortlists Include Graphic Works For First Time "
Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart will compete with works by Hilary Mantel, James Meek and Stephen May for the Costa novel of the year, while a biography-cum-memoir by Mary Talbot, drawn by her husband Bryan Talbot who also worked on
Judge Dredd and
Batman, is one of four books in the best biography shortlist."
The Guardian (UK) 11/20/12