The Edinburgh-based writer Kate Atkinson, and Scottish poet Don Paterson are in the running for this year's Costa Book Awards.
Ms Atkinson has been shortlisted on the Novel award short list for A God in Ruins, alongside Anne Enright, Patrick Gale and Melissa Harrison.
Paterson has been short listed for the poetry award for 40 Sonnets, alongside Kate Miller, Andrew McMillan and Neil Rollinson.
This year’s Costa Book Awards attracted 638 entries.
Winners in the five categories, who each receive £5,000, will be announced on January 4.
The overall winner of the 2015 Costa Book of the Year will receive £30,000 and will be selected and announced at the Costa Book Awards ceremony on January 26.
Christopher Rogers, managing director of Costa, said: "The quality and breadth of talent and writing in this year’s lists is staggering and there is something here for everyone.
"I’m looking forward to reading the books and don’t envy the judges task of whittling these fantastic shortlists down to just one winner per category."
The winner of the Costa Short Story Award, voted for by the public, will also be announced at the ceremony.
The shortlisted six stories for the Costa Short Story Award, now in its fourth year, will be revealed on the Costa Book Awards website, www.costabookawards.com, on November 30.
Since the introduction of the Book of the Year award in 1985, it has been won eleven times by a novel, five times by a first novel, six times by a biography, seven times by a collection of poetry and once by a children’s book.
The 2014 Costa Book of the Year was H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald.
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