It also won the shorter novel category.
The novel category has provided the most overall winners since it was introduced in 1985.
When The Shock of the Fall won the first novel category, back in early January, they said: "It's so good it will make you feel a better person".
Catherine O'Flynn won the first novel category of the Costa prize with What Was Lost, set in one of those impersonal shopping centres that replaced so many factories.
Her story Eve Green, published by Fourth Estate, yesterday beat Susanna Clarke's bestselling Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell in the first novel category.
Winner of the best novel category, Leading The Cheers was praised by critics as a "complex and rewarding novel... from a talented and original writer".
Today White fits in a truly novel category of fame: a giant star with cult cachet among people who could be her great-grandchildren.
The video was produced to accompany a 2007 novel, "Category 7," co-written with Marianna Jameson, about an engineered super storm, Hurricane Simone.
She did not know whether Mr. Frayn -- who had been nominated in the novel category, along with several other novelists -- had also advanced to the finals of the competition, and she did not really like to ask.
Bishop was posthumously nominated in the novel category of the 2013 Costa awards for Unexpected Lessons in Love – part of an all-female shortlist that also includes Kate Atkinson, Maggie O'Farrell and Evie Wyld.
Mr. Frayn is the winner in the novel category, for "Spies," a story of suspicion and half-understood childhood memories set in an English suburb during World War II.
