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The Jhalak Prize 2024 Winners

The Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour 2024 Winner

It is our great pleasure to confirm Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo as the winner of the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour.

A jaw-dropping true story that reads like the most outlandish crime fiction, Yeebo's unputdownable account focuses on global scammer John Ackah Blay-Miezah and how he amassed millions through an intricate web of deception in the wake of Ghanian independence.

The Jhalak Prize 2024 Shortlist

A Flat Place
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£10.99 £9.49
Anansi's Gold
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Hardback
£20.00
Boundary Road
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Paperback
£9.99
Fire Rush
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Paperback
£9.99 £8.49
Self-Portrait as Othello
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Twelve Words for Moss
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The Jhalak Prize 2024 Longlist

A Flat Place
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Paperback
£10.99 £9.49
A Glasgow Girl
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Paperback
£12.99
Anansi's Gold
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Hardback
£20.00
Azucar
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Paperback
£10.99
Boundary Road
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Paperback
£9.99
Bright Fear
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Paperback
£10.99
Elsewhere
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£12.99
Fire Rush
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Paperback
£9.99 £8.49
River Spirit
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Self-Portrait as Othello
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Small Worlds
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Paperback
£9.99 £8.49
Twelve Words for Moss
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The Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize 2024 Winner

It is our great pleasure to confirm Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan as the winner of the Jhalak Children’s and Young Adult Prize.

Perfect reading for fans of Katherine Rundell and Emma Carroll, Safiyyah's War is a riveting, deeply poignant period novel set in occupied Paris which finds the titular girl engaged in dangerous Resistance work after her father is arrested by the Nazis.

The Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize 2024 Shortlist

Geoffrey Gets the Jitters
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How To Die Famous
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Safiyyah's War
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Steady For This
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To The Other Side
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Wild Song
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£7.99

The Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize 2024 Longlist

Friendship Never Ends
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Geoffrey Gets the Jitters
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How To Die Famous
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My Life As A Chameleon
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Poetry Prompts
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Safiyyah's War
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Steady For This
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Story of Now
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To The Other Side
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Wild Song
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Paperback
£7.99

Jhalak Prize Previous Winners

None of the Above
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When Our Worlds Collided
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The Roles We Play
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Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
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The First Woman
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Eight Pieces of Silva
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Afropean
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£10.99
In Our Mad and Furious City
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The Bone Readers
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