2018 shortlist
- Young Adult
Winner Surrender
By Sonya Hartnett
- Designer: Jack Noel
- Illustrator: Jeffrey Alan Love
- Imprint: Walker Books
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A Change is Gonna Come
By Various Authors
- Designer: Paul Coomey
- Illustrator: Lucy Banaji
- Imprint: Stripes
Release
By Patrick Ness
- Designer: Ben Norland
- Illustrator: Levente Szabo
- Imprint: Walker Books
The Circus
By Olivia Levez
- Designer: Nathan Burton
- Art Director: James Jones
- Imprint: Oneworld Publications
This Book Will (help you) Change
the WorldBy Sue Torton
- Designer: Anna Morrison
- Imprint: Wren and Rook
Winter Magic
By Abi Elphinstone
- Designer: Jenny Richards
- Illustrator: Melissa Castrillon
- Imprint: Simon & Schuster UK
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Winner The Handmaid’s Tale
By Margaret Atwood
- Designer: Suzanne Dean
- Illustrator: Noma Bar
- Imprint: Vintage
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Annihilation
By Jeff Vandermeer
- Designer: Julian Humphries
- Imprint: 4th Estate
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Borne
By Jeff Vandermeer
- Designer: Jo Walker
- Imprint: 4th Estate
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Gnomon
By Nick Harkaway
- Designer: Glenn O’Neill
- Imprint: William Heinemann
Shadowless
By Hasan Ali Toptas
- Designer: Holly Ovenden
- Imprint: Bloomsbury
The Book of Bera
By Suzie Wilde
- Designer: Mark Ecob
- Illustrator: Joe Wilson
- Imprint: Unbound
- Non-Fiction
Winner Riot Days
By Marina Alyokhina
- Designer: Tom Etherington
- Art Director: Jim Stoddart
- Imprint: Allen Lane
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Bleaker House
By Nell Stevens
- Designer: Justine Anweiler
- Imprint: Picador
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I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down
By Allan Jones
- Designer: Gregg Heinimann
- Imprint: Bloomsbury
Revolution!
By Pete Ayrton
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
- Imprint: Harbour Books
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Rock Bottom
By Michael Odell
- Designer: James Jones
- Art Director: Kiera Jamison
- Imprint: Icon Books
The Diary of a Bookseller
By Shaun Bythell
- Designer: Steve Panton
- Illustrator: John McNaught
- Imprint: Profile Books
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The Dun Cow Rib
By John Lister-Kaye
- Designer: Pete Adlington
- Illustrator: Neil Gower
- Imprint: Canongate Books
The Illustrated Dust Jacket
By Martin Salisbury
- Designer: Bill Bragg
- Imprint: Thames & Hudson
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The Zoo of the New
By Nick Laird & Don Paterson
- Designer: Richard Green
- Art Director: Jom Stoddart
- Imprint: Penguin
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Timekeepers
By Simon Garfield
- Designer: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Canongate Books
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To Be a Machine
By Mark O'Connell
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Imprint: Granta Books
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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
By Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Designer: Gregg Heinimann
- Imprint: Bloomsbury
- Series Design
Winner Pan 70th Series
By Various Authors
- Designers: Justine Anweiler & Stuart Wilson
- Imprint: Pan Macmillan
Pushkin Japanese Series
By Various Authors
- Designer: Nathan Burton
- Imprint: Pushkin Press
Object Lessons Series
By Various Authors
- Designer: Alice Marwick
- Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Barbican Series
By Various Authors
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
- Imprint: Penguin
Vintage Russian Classic Series
By Various Authors
- Designer: Suzanne Dean
Penguin Essentials Series
By Various Authors
- Designers: John Hamilton, Gill Heeley, Chris Bentham, Jess Hart & Richard Bravery
- Illustrator: Young Jerks, Drew Millward, Richard Bravery, Danielle Kroll, Chris Bentham, George Morton-Clark, Geoff McFetridge, Angie Lewin, Hell'O & Camilla Perkins
- Imprint: Penguin
- Classics/Reissue
Winner The Communist Manifesto
By Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
- Designer: David Pearson
- Imprint: Pluto Press
Alias Grace
By Margaret Atwood
- Designer: David Mann
- Illustrator: Chloe Giordano
- Imprint: Bloomsbury
Generation X
By Douglas Coupland
- Designer: Mark Swan
- Photographer: Kid Ethic
- Imprint: Little, Brown
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New Collected Poems
By Marianne Moore
- Designer: Luke Bird
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
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The Doors of Perception
By Aldous Huxley
- Designer: La Boca
- Imprint: Vintage
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Under the Skin
By Michel Faber
- Designer: Rafi Romaya
- Illustrator: Yehrin Tong
- Imprint: Canongate
- Children’s 0-5
Winner Jill & Lion
By Lesley Barnes
- Designer: Lesley Barnes
- Illustrator: Lesley Barnes
- Imprint: Tate Publishing
Grumpy Frog
By Ed Vere
- Designer: Goldy Broad
- Illustrator: Ede Vere
- Art Director: Anna Bilson
- Imprint: Puffin
Hortense and the Shadow
By Natalia & Lauren O'Hara
- Designer: Keren Greenfeld
- Illustrator: Lauren O'Hara with Hand Lettering by Natalia O’Hara
- Imprint: Puffin
The Elephant in the Room
By James Thorp & Angus Mackinnon
- Designer: Genevieve Webster
- Illustrator: Angus Mackinnon
- Imprint: Templar Books
The Grotlyn
By Benji Davis
- Designer: Benji Davis
- Illustrator: Benji Davis
- Imprint: Harper Collins Childrens Publishers
Where’s My Jumper?
By Nicola Slater
- Designer: Jane Buckley
- Illustrator: Nicola Slater
- Imprint: Simon & Schuster
- Children’s 6-12
Winner Think and Make Like an Artist
By Claudia Bolt & Eleanor Meredith
- Designer: Shaz Mandani
- Illustrator: Jay Wright, Ola Niepsuj & Laura Bird
- Imprint: Thames & Hudson
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Birdy Flynn
By Helen Donohoe
- Designer: Ed Bettison
- Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Che Bello!
By Antonella Capetti & Melissa Castrillon
- Designer: Paolo Canton
- Illustrator: Melissa Castrillon
- Imprint: Topipittori
The Apprentice Witch
By James Nicol
- Designer: Leo Nickolls
- Imprint: Chicken House
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The Polar Bear Explorer’s Club
By Alex Bell
- Designers: & Emma Eldridge
- Illustrator: Tomislav Tomic
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
The Worm and the Bird
By Coralie Bickford-Smith
- Designer: Coralie Bickford-Smith
- Illustrator: Coralie Bickford-Smith
- Imprint: Particular Books
- Literary Fiction
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Winner The Blot
By Jonathan Lethem
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
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A Book of American Martyrs
By Joyce Carol Oates
- Designer: Anna Morrison
- Imprint: 4th Estate
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Black Moses
By Alain Mabanckou
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Imprint: Serpent's Tail
Ghachar Gochar
By Vivek Shanbhag
- Designer: Luke Bird
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
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The Graybar Hotel
By Curtis Dawkins
- Designer: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Canongate Books
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The Power
By Naomi Alderman
- Designer: Nathan Burton
- Art Director: Richard Bravery
- Imprint: Penguin
- Crime/Thriller
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Winner Dark Pines
By Will Dean
- Designer: Mark Swan
- Imprint: Oneworld Publications
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An English Murder
By Cyril Hare
- Designer: Alex Kirby
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
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Dark Asylum
By E. S. Thomson
- Designer: Tracey Winwood
- Illustrator: Jordan Metcalf
- Imprint: Constable
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See What I Have Done
By Sarah Schmidt
- Designer: Yeti Lambregts
- Imprint: Tinder Press
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The Anthill Murders
By Hans Olaf Lahlum
- Designer: James Annal
- Imprint: Mantle
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The Mayfly
By James Hazel
- Designer: Stuart Bache
- Imprint: Zaffre
- Mass Market
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Winner The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
By Martha Batalha
- Designer: Sinem Erkas
- Art Director: James Jones
- Imprint: Oneworld Publications
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
By Gail Honeyman
- Designer: Holly Macdonald
- Photographer: Hanka Steidle/PlainPicture
- Imprint: Harper Collins
How to Stop Time
By Matt Haig
- Designer: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Canongate Books
My Name is Leon
By Kit De Wall
- Designer: Helen Crawford-White
- Imprint: Penguin
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The Ice
By Laline Paull
- Designer: Jo Walker
- Imprint: 4th Estate
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Uncommon Type
By Tom Hanks
- Designer: Lauren Wakefield
- Imprint: William Heinemann
