2025 shortlist
- Young Adult
Trigger
By C. G. Moore
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Imprint: Little Island Books
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Seven Million Sunflowers
By Malcolm Duffy
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Art Director: Jessie Price
- Imprint: Zephyr
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
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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
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Glasgow Boys
By Margaret McDonald
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Art Director: Emma Eldridge
- Imprint: Faber
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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Winner Troll
By Johanna Sinisalo
- Designer: Jo Walker
- Imprint: Pushkin Press
The Martian Way
By Isaaac Asimov
- Designer: Mike Topping
- Art Director: Claire Ward
- Imprint: Harper Voyager
The Edge of Solitude
By Katie Hale
- Designer: Valeri Rangelov
- Art Director: Rafaela Romaya
- Imprint: Canongate Books
The Cautious Traveller’s Guide
By Sarah Brooks
- Designer: Steve Marking
- Illustrator: Rohan Eason
- Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Hum
By Helen Philips
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Art Director: Holly Battle
- Imprint: Atlantic
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Hot Singles In Your Area
By Jordan Shiveley
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Mark Ecob
- Imprint: Unbound
- Non-Fiction
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The Bullet
By Tom Lee
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Art Director: Sarah Wasley
- Imprint: Granta Books
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The Body In The Library
By Graham Caveney
- Designer: David Pearson
- Art Director: Sam Fisher
- Imprint: Peninsula Press
Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake
By
- Designer: Henry Petrides
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
Strong Female Character
By Fern Brady
- Designer: Melissa Four
- Photographer: Raphael Neal
- Imprint: Brazen
Steak
By Tim Hayward
- Designer: Luke Bird
- Photographer: Sam Folan
- Imprint: Quadrille
Point Line Plane
By Kengo Kuma
- Designer: Tom Etherington
- Imprint: Thames & Hudson
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Neu Klang
By Jack Smyth
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
Milf
By Paloma Faith
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Imprint: Ebury Spotlight
Lobster
By Hollie McNish
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Nico Taylor
- Imprint: Fleet
High Jump as Icarus Story
By Gustav Parker Hibbett
- Designer: Anna Morrison
- Imprint: Banshee Press
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Winner Dead Weight
By Emmeline Clein
- Designer: Lucy Scholes
- Imprint: Picador
Avantgardists
By Sjeng Scheijen
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Clare Turner
- Imprint: Thames & Hudson
- Series Design
Sarah Waters
By Sarah Waters
- Designer: Nico Taylor
- Illustrator: Jesse Mockrin
- Imprint: Little Brown
Pocket Perspectives
By various
- Designer: Matthew Young
- Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Penguin Weird Fiction
By various
- Designer: Chris Bentham
- Illustrator: Kate Dehler
- Imprint: Penguin
Éditions Zulma
By various
- Designer: David Pearson
- Art Director: Laure Leroy, Evelyne Lagrange, Héloïse Bailly
- Imprint: Éditions Zulma
Winner Earl Lovelace
By
- Designer: Kishan Rajani
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
Banana Yoshimoto
By Banana Yoshimoto
- Designer: Sophie Harris
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
- Classics/Reissue
The Collected Short Stories
By Roberto Bolaño
- Designer: Suzanne Dean
- Illustrator: Diego Becas
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Winner The Buddha of Suburbia
By Hanif Kureishi
- Designer: Kishan Rajani
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
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Roger McGough: The Collected Poems
By
- Designer: Chris Bentham
- Imprint: Penguin Viking
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McGlue
By Ottessa Moshfegh
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
- Imprint: Vintage
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Kitchen
By Banana Yoshimoto
- Designer: Sophie Harris
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
Brave New World
By Aldous Huxley
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Matt Broughton
- Imprint: Vintage
- Children’s 0-5
Winner Up High
By Matt Hunt
- Designer: Nia Roberts
- Illustrator: Matt Hunt
- Imprint: Nosy Crow
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Tummy Time Farm
By Louise Lockhart
- Designer: Zoe Gregory
- Illustrator: Louise Lockhart
- Imprint: Nosy Crow
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The Cat Who Couldn’t Be Bothered
By Jack Kurland
- Designer: Jack Kurland
- Imprint: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books
The Boy And The Octopus
By Lewis & Carmen Saldaña
- Designer: Clare Doughty
- Illustrator: Carmen Saldana
- Imprint: Puffin
Letters From The North Pole
By Annie Atkins
- Designers: Annie Atkins & Stephanie Jones
- Illustrator: Fia Tobing
- Art Director: Nicola Price
- Imprint: Magic Cat Publishing
Flower Block
By Lanisha Butterfield and Hoang Giang d. Keren Greenfeld i. Hoang Giang - Puffin
- Designer: Keren Greenfeld
- Illustrator: Hoang Giang
- Imprint: Puffin
- Children’s 6-12
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Stitch
By Pádraig Kenny
- Designer: Maia Fjord
- Illustrator: Steve McCarthy
- Imprint: Walker Books
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Shadow Creatures
By Chris Vick
- Designer: David Dean
- Illustrator: David Dean
- Art Director: Jessie Price
- Imprint: Zephyr
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Winner Secrets of the Snakestone
By Piu Dasgupta
- Designers: Elisabetta Barbazza & Studio Helen
- Illustrator: Studio Helen
- Art Director: Elisabetta Barbazza
- Imprint: Nosy Crow
Dear Vincent
By Michael Bird
- Designer: Leigh Heynike
- Illustrator: Ella Beech
- Imprint: Thames & Hudson
BANG
By Jennifer N R Smith
- Designer: Kate Haynes
- Illustrator: Jennifer N. R. Smith
- Imprint: Thames & Hudson
12 Ways to Get a Ticket to Space
By Kate Peridot & Terri Po
- Designer: Sasha Moxon
- Illustrator: Terri Po
- Art Director: Karissa Santos
- Imprint: Wide Eyed Editions
- Literary Fiction
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Sinking Bell
By Bojan Louis
- Designer: Tom Etherington
- Imprint: Dead Ink Books
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Napalm in the Heart
By Pol Guasch
- Designer: Henry Petrides
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
Intermezzo
By Sally Rooney
- Designer: Kishan Rajani
- Illustrator: Kishan Rajani
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
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Cecilia
By K-Ming Chang
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
- Imprint: Harvill Secker
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Beautiful Days
By Zach Williams
- Designer: Chris Bentham
- Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
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Winner Above Us the Sea
By Ania Card
- Designer: Emma Ewbank
- Photographer: Anastasia Mukhina
- Imprint: Dead Ink Books
- Crime/Thriller
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Schroeder
By Neal Cassidy
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
- Imprint: M&S Books
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Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark
By Celia Fremlin
- Designer: Robbie Porter
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
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Death at the Sign of The Rook
By Kate Atkinson
- Designer: Anna Morrison
- Art Director: Richard Ogle
- Imprint: Doubleday
Clean
By Alia Trabucco Zerán
- Designer: Julian Humphries
- Art Director: Julian Humphries
- Imprint: 4th Estate
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Cahokia Jazz
By Francis Spufford
- Designer: Henry Petrides
- Art Director: Peter Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
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Winner Butter
By Asako Yuzuki
- Designer: Emma Pidsley
- Art Director: Julian Humphries
- Imprint: 4th Estate
- Mass Market
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The Tower
By Flora Carr
- Designer: Henry Petrides
- Illustrator: Julien Brogard and Henry Petrides
- Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
Mongrel
By Hanako Footman
- Designer: Anna Morrison
- Imprint: Footnote
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Marigold Mind Laundry
By Jungeun Yun
- Designer: Holly Ovenden
- Illustrator: Holly Ovenden
- Art Director: Marianne Issa El-Khoury
- Imprint: Transworld
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James
By Percival Everett
- Designer: Ami Smithson
- Illustrator: Joe McLaren
- Imprint: - Mantle
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Winner Girls
By Kirsty Capes
- Designer: Dan Jackson
- Imprint: Orion
Company
By Shannon Sanders
- Designer: Anna Morrison
- Imprint: One (Pushkin Press)
