2023 shortlist
- Young Adult
Winner All That’s Left in the World
By Erik J. Brown
- Designer: Michelle Brackenborough
- Illustrator: Luke Martin
- Imprint: Hodder Children’s Books
Once Upon a Fever
By Angharad Walker
- Designer: Micaela Alcaino
- Illustrator: Micaela Alcaino
- Imprint: Chicken House Books
Read Between the Lines
By Malcolm Duffy
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Illustrator: Jon Gray
- Art Director: Jessie Price
- Imprint: Zephyr
Stone
By Finbar Hawkins
- Designer: Ed Bettison
- Illustrator: Edward Bettison
- Art Director: Jessie Price
- Imprint: Zephyr
Truth Be Told
By Sue Divin
- Designer: Tiana Dunlop
- Illustrator: Tiana Dunlop
- Imprint: Macmillan
Waking the Witch
By Rachel Burgeons
- Designer: Nick Stearn
- Illustrator: Alice Pattullo
- Art Director: Nick Stearn
- Imprint: Hot Key Books
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Babel
By R F Kaung
- Designer: Holly Macdonald
- Illustrator: Nico Delort
- Imprint: Voyager
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Illuminations
By Alan Moore
- Designer: Gregg Heinimann
- Illustrator: Greg Heinimann
- Art Director: Greg Heinimann
- Imprint: Bloomsbury
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The Leviathan
By Rosia Andrews
- Designer: David Mann
- Imprint: Raven Books
Winner Out There
By Kate Folk
- Designer: Lydia Blagden
- Imprint: Hodder Studio
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Queen High
By C J Carey
- Designer: Nathan Burton
- Art Director: Andrew Smith
- Imprint: Quercus
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The Pharmacist
By The Pharmacist
- Designer: Nathan Burton
- Illustrator: Nathan Burton
- Art Director: Kate Brunt
- Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
- Non-Fiction
A Heart That Works
By Rob Delaney
- Designer: Will Speed
- Photographer: Hollie Fernando
- Imprint: Coronet
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Africa is Not A Country
By Dipo Faloyin
- Designer: Kishan Rajani
- Imprint: Harvel Secker
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Beyond Measure
By James Vincent
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Imprint: Faber
Winner Boy Friends
By Michael Pedersen
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Illustrator: Nathaniel Russell
- Art Director: Donna Payne
- Imprint: Faber
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Elite Capture
By Olúfémi O. Táíwò
- Designer: Steve Leard
- Art Director: Melanie Patrick
- Imprint: Pluto
Notes on A Heartbreak
By Annie Lord
- Designer: Anna Morrison
- Art Director: Rachael Lancaster
- Imprint: Trapeze
On Connection
By Kae Tempest
- Designer: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
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Strandings
By Peter Riley
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Steve Panton
- Imprint: Profile
The Italian Pantry
By Theo Randall
- Designer: Katherine Keeble
- Imprint: Quadrille
The Secret Life of Lego Bricks
By
- Designer: Mark Ecob
- Imprint: Unbound
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The Status Game
By Will Storr
- Designer: Steve Leard
- Art Director: Julian Humphries
- Imprint: William Collins
We Could Have Been Friends
By Raja Shehadeh
- Designer: Luke Bird
- Art Director: Steve Panton
- Imprint: Profile
- Series Design
Chaudhuri
By Amit Chaudhuri
- Designer: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
Winner Collins Modern Classics
By various
- Designer: Jo Thomson
- Imprint: Collins Modern Classics
Great Poets
By various
- Illustrator: Steve Marking
- Art Director: Steve Marking
- Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Miss Marple
By Agatha Christie
- Designer: Holly Ovenden
- Illustrator: Holly Ovenden
- Imprint: William Morrow
Outspoken
By various
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
- Art Director: Melanie Patrick
- Imprint: Pluto Press
P. G. Wodehouse
By P G Wodehouse
- Designer: Nathan Burton
- Art Director: Emma Grey Gelder
- Imprint: Penguin Random House
- Classics/Reissue
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Babbit
By Sinclair Lewis
- Designer: Nathan Burton
- Illustrator: Nathan Burton
- Art Director: Elisabetta Minervini
- Imprint: Alma Books
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Classic Ghost Stories
By Various
- Designer: Andrew Davis
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
Winner Kafka on the Shore
By Haruki Murakami
- Designer: Suzanne Dean
- Illustrator: Nakamura Kyoko
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Please Look After Mother
By Kyung- Sook Shin
- Designer: Anna Morrison
- Art Director: Steve Marking
- Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
The Romantics
By Pankaj Mishra
- Designer: Ceara Elliot
- Art Director: Jason Smith
- Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
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The Glass Pearls
By Emeric Pressburger
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Illustrator: Jack Smyth
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
- Children’s 0-5
An Unexpected Thing
By Ashling Lyndsay
- Designer: Myrto Dimitrakoulia
- Illustrator: Ashling Lindsay
- Imprint: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Edward and the Horse
By Ann Rand and Olle Eksell
- Designer: Avni Patel
- Illustrator: Olle Eksell
- Art Director: Avni Patel
- Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Winner The Boy with Flowers in His Hair
By Jarvis
- Designer: Audrey Keri-Nagy
- Illustrator: Jarvis
- Art Director: Deirdre McDermott
- Imprint: Walker Books
The Eyebrows of Doom
By Steve Smallman
- Designer: Heather Ryerson
- Illustrator: Miguel Ordónez
- Art Director: Rebecca Essilifie
- Imprint: Little Tiger – Picture Book Studio
The Gecko and the Echo
By Rachel Bright and Jim Field
- Designer: Grahame Lyus
- Illustrator: Jim Field
- Imprint: Orchard Books
Well Done, Mummy Penguin
By Chris Haughton
- Designer: Deirdre McDermott
- Illustrator: Chris Haughton
- Art Director: Deirdre McDermott
- Imprint: Walker Books
- Children’s 6-12
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Julia and The Shark
By Karin Millwood hargrave
- Designer: Alison Padley
- Illustrator: Tom de Freston
- Imprint: Orion Children’s Books
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Mike Falls Up
By Candy Gourlay
- Designers: Chen Kimberley & Sara Mognol
- Illustrator: Carles Ballesteros
- Art Director: Charlie Moyler
- Imprint: Little Tiger (Fiction Studio)
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Winner The Chestnut Roaster
By Eve McDonnell
- Designer: Holly Ovenden
- Illustrator: Holly Ovenden
- Imprint: Everything With Words
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The Drowning Day
By Anne Cassidy
- Designer: Becky Chilcott
- Illustrator: Jake Alexander
- Imprint: UCLan Publishing
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The King of the Copper Mountains
By Paul Biegel
- Designer: Jo Walker
- Art Director: Daniel Seton
- Imprint: Pushkin Children’s
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The Wind Child
By Gabriela Houston
- Designer: Becky Chilcott
- Illustrator: Alexis Snell
- Imprint: UCLan Publishing
- Literary Fiction
Fight Night
By Miriam Toews
- Designer: Anna Morrison
- Art Director: Donna Payne
- Imprint: Faber
Garden Physic
By Sylvia Legris
- Designer: David Pearson
- Art Director: Sarah Wasley
- Imprint: Granta Poetry
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Winner Joan
By Katherine J. Chen
- Designer: Holly Ovenden
- Illustrator: Holly Ovenden
- Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Sarahland
By Sam Cohen
- Designer: Holly Ovenden
- Illustrator: Holly Ovenden
- Imprint: Grand Central
The Last White Man
By Mohsin Hamid
- Designer: Chris Bentham
- Illustrator: Chris Bentham
- Art Director: Richard Bravery
- Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
The Visitor
By Jessi Jezewska Stevens
- Designer: Luke Bird
- Art Director: Tom Etherington
- Imprint: And Other Stories
- Crime/Thriller
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Winner A Helping Hand
By Celia Dale
- Designer: Luke Bird
- Art Director: Marigold Atkey
- Imprint: Daunt Books
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Black Lake
By Guy Morpuss
- Designer: Nathan Burton
- Illustrator: Nathan Burton
- Imprint: Viper Books
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Edith & Kim
By Charlotte Philby
- Designer: Ellie Game
- Imprint: The Borough Press
Marple
By Agatha Christie
- Designer: Holly Ovenden
- Illustrator: Holly Ovenden
- Imprint: William Morrow
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Punishment of A Hunter
By Yulia Yakovleva
- Designer: Jo Walker
- Imprint: Pushkin Press
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Sundial
By Catriona Ward
- Designer: Steve Panton
- Imprint: Viper Books
- Mass Market
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Keisha the Sket
By Jade Lb
- Designer: Henry Petrides
- Imprint: Merky Books
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None of This is Serious
By Catheribe Prasifka
- Designer: Gill Heeley
- Illustrator: Gill Heeley
- Imprint: Canongate
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Winner The Black Dog
By Kevin Bridges
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Patrick Insole
- Imprint: Wildfire
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The Dictator’s Wife
By Freya Berry
- Designer: Heike Schüssler
- Art Director: Yeti Lambregts
- Imprint: Headline Review
The Marriage Portrait
By Maggie O’Farrell
- Designer: Emma Ewbank
- Art Director: Yeti Lambregts
- Imprint: Headline
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Yinka, Where is Your Husband?
By Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
- Designer: Julia Connolly
- Art Director: Richard Bravery
- Imprint: Viking
