2022 shortlist

• Non-Fiction
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  A Vertical Art

  By Simon Armitage

  • Designer: Luke Bird
  • Art Director: Donna Payne
  • Imprint: Faber

  www.lukebird.co.uk

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  Winner Autobibliography

  By Rob Doyle

  • Designer: Jack Smyth
  • Imprint: Swift Press

  www.jacksmyth.co

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  Below the Edge of Darkness

  By Dr. Edith Widder

  • Designer: Sophie Harris
  • Illustrator: WonderTheory
  • Imprint: Virago
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  Black Lion

  By Sicelo Mbatha

  • Designer: Luke Bird
  • Illustrator: Natasha Lisa
  • Art Director: Andrew Furlow
  • Imprint: Icon

  www.lukebird.co.uk

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  Britain Alone

  By Philip Stephens

  • Designer: Jonathan Pelham
  • Imprint: Faber

  jpelham.co.uk

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  Fear of Black Consciousness

  By Lewis R. Gordon

  • Designer: Simi Abe
  • Art Director: Jim Stoddart
  • Imprint: Allen Lane
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  Misfits

  By Michaela Coel

  • Designer: Jack Smyth
  • Art Director: Loulou Clarke
  • Imprint: Ebury Press

  www.jacksmyth.co

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  My Mess is a Bit of A Life

  By Georgia Pritchett

  • Designer: Holly Ovenden
  • Imprint: Faber
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  Orwell’s Roses

  By Rebecca Solnit

  • Designer: Jon Gray
  • Art Director: Sarah Wasley
  • Imprint: Granta

  gray318.com

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  What If We Stopped Pretending

  By Jonathan Franzen

  • Designer: Ellie Game
  • Imprint: 4th Estate
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  What It Feels Like For A Girl

  By Paris Lees

  • Designer: Tom Etherington
  • Art Director: Jim Stoddart
  • Imprint: Particular Books

  www.tometherington.com

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  William Blake vs. The World

  By

  • Designer: Estuary English
  • Illustrator: Lettering by Jon Gray
  • Art Director: Steve Marking
  • Imprint: W&N

  www.estuaryenglish.co.uk