2024 British Book Awards Shortlists

• Yellowface, Rebecca F. Kuang (Borough Press)
• The Ghost Ship, Kate Mosse (Mantle)
• Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Piaktus)

Pageturner

• Icebreaker, Hannah Grace (Simon & Schuster)
• It Starts with Us, Colleen Hoover (Simon & Schuster)
• The Lost Bookshop, Evie Woods (One More Chapter)
• Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Piatkus)
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage)

Début Fiction

• Godkiller, Hannah Kaner (HarperVoyager)

Children’s Fiction

• The Boy Who Slept Through Christmas, Matt Lucas, illustrated by Forest Burdett (Farshore)
• Powerless, Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schusters Children’s)
• Impossible Creatures, Katherine Rundell (Bloomsbury Children’s)
• Skandar and the Phantom Rider, A.F. Steadman (Simon & Schusters Children’s)

Audiobook Fiction

• Poor Things, Alasdair Gray, narrated by Russ Bain and Kathryn Drysdale (W.F. Howes)
• Impossible Creatures, Katherine Rundell, narrated by Samuel West (Bloomsbury Children’s)

The British Book Awards, also called the Nibbies, “celebrates the intimate connection between the books, their makers and their audience” with nominees in a variety of categories. Winners will be honored on May 13, 2024 through both a livestream and at Grosvenor House in London. For the complete shortlist, see the official website.

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