204: Costa Book Award Special 2020

<div>This week Read On is focusing on The Costa Book Awards, which recognise the most enjoyable books published in the UK over the past year in five categories:<br> <br> </div> <div>Novel, Debut Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Books.<br> <br> </div> <div>The five category winners were selected earlier this month.<br> <br> </div> <div>And next week, one overall winner will be crowned Costa Book of the Year, winning the author £30,000.<br> <br> </div> <div>And Red Szell brings you interviews with four of the five authors in contention:  Ingrid Persaud, Monique Roffey, Lee Lawrence and Natasha Farrant, and talks to the friend and publisher of Eavan Boland, who died shortly before she won the Costa Poetry Award.<br> <br> </div>