2019 SHORTLISTS

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar (Harvill Secker)
Never Greener by Ruth Jones (Bantam Press)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (Zaffre)
Dear Mrs Bird by A. J. Pearce (Picador)
Lullaby by Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor (Faber & Faber)
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (Raven Books)

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Macmillan Children's Books)
The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson, illustrated by Elisa Paganelli and cover designed by Melissa Castrillo (Usborne)
Head Kid by David Baddiel, illustrated by Steven Lenton (HarperCollins Children's Books)
The Skylarks' War by Hilary McKay (Macmillan Children's Books)
The Ice Monster by David Walliams, illustrated by Tony Ross (HarperCollins Children's Books)
My Mum Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson, illustrated by Nick Sharratt (Doubleday)

Stories for Boys Who Dare To Be Different by Ben Brooks illustrated by Quinton Winter (Quercus)
Politics for Beginners by Alex Frith, Rosie Hore, Louie Stowell, illustrated by Kellan Stover (Usborne)
Oi Duck Billed Platypus! by Kes Grey, illustrated by Jim Field (Hodder Children's Books)
Fantastically Great Women who Made History by Kate Pankhurst (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
You Are Awesome by Matthew Syed, illustrated by Toby Triumph (Wren & Rook)
I Am The Seed That Grew The Tree: A Nature Poem For Every Day Of The Year by Fiona Waters, illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon (Nosy Crow)

Transcription by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday)
Milkman by Anna Burns (Faber & Faber)
Still Me by Jojo Moyes (Michael Joseph)
Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber)
Tombland by C. J. Sansom (Mantle)
Why Mummy Swears by Gill Sims (HarperFiction)

Our House by Louise Candlish (Simon & Schuster)
The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn (HarperFiction)
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen (Pan Books)
Close to Home by Cara Hunter (Viking | Penguin Paperbacks)
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo (Hogarth)
In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin (Orion)

Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinene (4th Estate)
Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and Other Lies) curated by Scarlett Curtis (Penguin)
Bosh! by Henry Firth and Ian Theasby (HQ)
Lose Weight for Good by Tom Kerridge (Absolute Press)
Ottolenghi Simple Yotam Ottolenghi and Tara Wigley (Ebury Press)
The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book Ordnance Survey (Trapeze)

Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton
First Man In: Leading from the Front, Ant Middleton
Becoming, Michelle Obama
The Secret Barrister, The Secret Barrister
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story, Christie Watson
Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff

Milkman by Anna Burns, narrated by Bríd Brennan 
Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis, narrated by Richard Armitage 
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith, narrated by Robert Glenister 
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking, narrated by Ben Whishaw 
First Man In: Leading From the Front, written and narrated by Ant Middleton 
Becoming, written and narrated by Michelle Obama

Francis Bickmore, Canongate
Jessie Botterill, Bookouture
Alison Hennessey, Raven Books
Rebecca Hill, Usborne Publishing
Louisa Joyner, Faber & Faber
Arabella Pike, 4th Estate and William Collins
Michael Schmidt, Carcanet Press
Anna Valentine, Orion Publishing Group

Sophie Lambert, C&W
Arabella Stein, The Bright Agency
Cathryn Summerhayes, Curtis Brown
Jo Unwin, JULA
Chris Wellbelove, Aitken Alexander Associates

Camilla Ferrier, The Marsh Agency 
Amy Joyner, Kogan Page
Krystyna Kujawinska, Orion
Stephanie Purcell, Simon & Schuster UK
Andrew Sharp, Hachette Children's Group
Meixia Wang, The Quarto Group
Pippa Wright, Penguin Random House
Michele Young, Pan Macmillan

Aude Bolechala, Nomad Books
Andrew Forster, Waterstones
Joe Hedinger, The Book Hive
Noor Hemani, Lighthouse Bookshop
Euan Hirst, Blackwell's
Jonathan Taylor Golden Hare Books

Atlantic Books
Canongate
Cicerone Press 
Elliott & Thompson
Faber & Faber
Hardie Grant UK
Nosy Crow
Wild Things Publishing, Winner of Small Press of the Year

Little, Brown/Abacus 
HQ
Jonathan Cape
Picador
Trapeze
Two Roads
Viking
Zaffre

DK
Hachette Children's Group
HarperCollins Children's Books
Nosy Crow
Macmillan Children's Books
Scholastic
Usborne Publishing
Wonderbly

Bloomsbury 
Collins Learning
Emerald Publishing
Historic Environment Scotland
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Kogan Page
Rowman & Littlefield International
SAGE Publishing

Bloomsbury
Bonnier Books UK
HarperCollins
John Murray Press
Little, Brown Book Group
Orion Publishing Group
Pan Macmillan
Penguin General

Amelia Fairney and Poppy North for Michelle Obama's Becoming (Viking, Penguin General)
Sophie Calder and Megan Carver for Henry Firth and Ian Theasby's BOSH! (HQ, HarperCollins)
Maura Wilding & Harriet Venn for Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (and Other Lies) (Penguin Random House Children’s)
Maria Garbutt-Lucero for Sally Rooney's Normal People (Faber & Faber)
Louise Court and Lucie Cuthbertson Twiggs for The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar (Harvill Secker, Vintage)
Hannah Corbett for The Secret Barrsiter by Anonymous (Pan Macmillan)

The President is Missing by Bill Clinton & James Patterson, Cornerstone, Penguin Random House
BOSH! by Henry Firth and Ian Theasby, HarperCollins
First Man In: Leading From the Front by Ant Middleton, HarperCollins
The Colour of Time by Dan Jones and Marina Amaral, Head of Zeus 
Tombland by C. J. Sansom, Pan Macmillan 
Jack Reacher 2018 by Lee Child, Transworld, Penguin Random House
Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and Other Lies) curated by Scarlett Curtis, Penguin Random House Children’s 
Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan, Simon & Schuster UK 
The Mainstreet Trading Company, 10th Birthday Campaign, The Mainsteet Trading Company 

DRAKE - The Bookshop, North England
Five Leaves Bookshop, Midlands 
Newham Bookshop, London
Sevenoaks Bookshop, South-East England
Niche Comics & Bookshop, East England
Golden Hare Books, Scotland
Gullivers Bookshop, South-West England
Charlie Byrne’s, Bookshop Ireland
Bookish, Wales

ASDA
Golden Hare Books
Hewson Books: The Kew Bookshop
Nomad Books
Norfolk Children's Book Centre
The Blessington Bookstore
The Edinburgh Bookshop
Waterstones

Blackwell's
Daunt Books
Waterstones
WHSmith High Street
WHSmith Travel