2025 shortlist

• Young Adult
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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

  www.arabellajones.co.uk

• Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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  Winner Troll

  By Johanna Sinisalo

  • Designer: Jo Walker
  • Imprint: Pushkin Press

  www.jowalker.com

• Non-Fiction
• 

  Winner Dead Weight

  By Emmeline Clein

  • Designer: Lucy Scholes
  • Imprint: Picador
• Series Design
• 

  Winner Earl Lovelace

  By

  • Designer: Kishan Rajani
  • Art Director: Pete Adlington
  • Imprint: Faber

  www.kishanrajanidesign.com

• Classics/Reissue
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  Winner The Buddha of Suburbia

  By Hanif Kureishi

  • Designer: Kishan Rajani
  • Art Director: Pete Adlington
  • Imprint: Faber

  www.kishanrajanidesign.com

• Children’s 0-5
• 

  Winner Up High

  By Matt Hunt

  • Designer: Nia Roberts
  • Illustrator: Matt Hunt
  • Imprint: Nosy Crow

  nosycrow.com/staff/nia-roberts/?srsltid=AfmBOorahH-XltfWImI7xHKuXwU4V6oBsqh6EDJSkTAjOwHUob9MUcar

• Children’s 6-12
• 

  Winner Secrets of the Snakestone

  By Piu Dasgupta

  • Designers: Elisabetta Barbazza & Studio Helen
  • Illustrator: Studio Helen
  • Art Director: Elisabetta Barbazza
  • Imprint: Nosy Crow

  studiohelen.co.uk, https://nosycrow.com/staff/elisabetta-barbazza/?srsltid=AfmBOorZQHA5Dk6eAR7n2Q0oQPBS_qgLRHbjRFasC_fomz-iSu204Joe

• Literary Fiction
• 

  Winner Above Us the Sea

  By Ania Card

  • Designer: Emma Ewbank
  • Photographer: Anastasia Mukhina
  • Imprint: Dead Ink Books

  www.emmaewbank.com

• Crime/Thriller
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  Winner Butter

  By Asako Yuzuki

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

  cargocollective.com/emmapidsley

• Mass Market
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  Winner Girls

  By Kirsty Capes

  • Designer: Dan Jackson
  • Imprint: Orion