What Was Lost Was Lost" was the winner in the first novel category of the Costa Book Awards. O'Flynn received a £5,000 prize. It was short-listed for the overall Costa Book of the Year Award. The Costa Book Awards' judging panel, chaired by Joanna Trollope, praised the novel for "blending humour and pathos in a cleverly constructed and absorbing mystery." They described the novel as inventive, compelling, and poignant. "What Was Lost" was long-listed for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. It was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. It won the Jelf Group First Novel Award
Kate Newby Gambia Castle. She is represented in New York by the Laurel Gitlen gallery and in Auckland by Michael Lett. Work by Newby is held by the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. In 2012 Newby won the Walters Prize with her work "Crawl out your window" (first shown at Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen). Newby held a residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York, funded by Creative New Zealand. In 2013, she was an artist-in-residence at Fogo Island Arts. Artist files for Kate Newby are held at: Kate Newby Kate Newby (born 1979) is an artist