2025 shortlist

• Crime/Thriller
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  Schroeder

  By Neal Cassidy

  • Designer: Jamie Keenan
  • Imprint: M&S Books

  www.keenandesign.com

• 

  Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark

  By Celia Fremlin

  • Designer: Robbie Porter
  • Art Director: Pete Adlington
  • Imprint: Faber

  cargocollective.com/robbieporter

• 

  Death at the Sign of The Rook

  By Kate Atkinson

  • Designer: Anna Morrison
  • Art Director: Richard Ogle
  • Imprint: Doubleday

  annamorrison.com

• 

  Clean

  By Alia Trabucco Zerán

  • Designer: Julian Humphries
  • Art Director: Julian Humphries
  • Imprint: 4th Estate
• 

  Cahokia Jazz

  By Francis Spufford

  • Designer: Henry Petrides
  • Art Director: Peter Adlington
  • Imprint: Faber

  henrypetrides.com

• 

  Winner Butter

  By Asako Yuzuki

  • Designer: Emma Pidsley
  • Art Director: Julian Humphries
  • Imprint: 4th Estate

  cargocollective.com/emmapidsley