2025 shortlist

• Young Adult
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  Trigger

  By C. G. Moore

  • Designer: Jack Smyth
  • Imprint: Little Island Books

  www.jacksmyth.co

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  Seven Million Sunflowers

  By Malcolm Duffy

  • Designer: Jon Gray
  • Art Director: Jessie Price
  • Imprint: Zephyr

  gray318.com

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  Nettle

  By Bex Hogan

  • Designer: Jessie Price
  • Illustrator: Laura El
  • Art Director: Jessie Price
  • Imprint: Zephyr
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  My Teeth in Your Heart

  By Joanna Nadin

  • Designer: Anna Morrison
  • Art Director: Becky Chilcott
  • Imprint: UCLan Publishing

  annamorrison.com

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  Winner Macbeth

  By William Shakespeare

  • Designer: Arabella Jones
  • Illustrator: Lucie Corbasson-Guévenoux
  • Art Director: Jacqui McDonough and Anna Billson
  • Imprint: Penguin Books

  www.arabellajones.co.uk

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  Glasgow Boys

  By Margaret McDonald

  • Designer: Jonathan Pelham
  • Art Director: Emma Eldridge
  • Imprint: Faber

  jpelham.co.uk