2023 shortlist

• 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
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  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