Two comic-style books have been shortlisted for this year's Costa Book Awards alongside the latest novel by double Man Booker winner Hilary Mantel.
A graphic novel about the mother-son relationship, Days Of The Bagnold Summer, by Joff Winterhart, and a graphic biography of James Joyce's daughter, Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes, by husband and wife Mary M and Bryan Talbot, are both in the running, in a first for the prize.
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