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YA Book Prize 2024 Winner

It is our great pleasure to confirm Lex Croucher’s Gwen and Art Are Not in Love as the winner of this year’s YA Book Prize.

This unputdownable, hilarious historical romp sees a whip-smart princess and a duke-to-be who hate each other join forces as their best-kept secrets risk public exposure. Bringing all the wit, sass and sweeping romance of Croucher’s beloved novels Reputation and Infamous, Gwen and Art Are Not in Love is a simply stellar read from start to finish.

 

The YA Book Prize Shortlist 2024

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This unputdownable, hilarious historical romp from the author of Reputation and Infamous sees a whip-smart princess and a duke-to-be who hate each other join forces as their best-kept secrets are at risk of exploding into the open.
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Both a searing YA thriller and a timely takedown of the pitfalls of instant fame, this page-turner from the author of The King is Dead sees an undercover journalist take a Hollywood role to investigate the suspicious death of his brother.
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Tearing up the Greek myth of Persephone with irresistible exuberance, rising TikTok star Fitzgerald crafts an irreverent romcom retelling where Demeter's headstrong daughter feels the heat with a seriously smoking Hades.
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A high school killer is slaying their victims in line with a student's short story ideas in this gripping and original YA thriller, perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen M. McManus.
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A wonderfully sweet-natured fake dating romcom, This is How You Fall in Love sees idealist Zara reluctantly play girlfriend to her best friend.
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Inclusive and adorable, The First Move finds a girl with arthritis and the obnoxious new boy unexpectedly hit it off in the world of online chess.
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From former Waterstones Children's Book Prize winner Sally Nicholls comes a stunning historical epistolary novel revolving around the hopes, dreams and loves of a trio of a young women at the end of the nineteenth century.
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A radical retreat designed to fix the epidemic of teenage unhappiness turns sinister in Josh Silver’s dark and electrifying YA debut.
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A deliciously sly retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray for the TikTok generation, Steven's seductive thriller finds the students at an elite drama school being picked off one by one through their enchanted likenesses.
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Blackly hilarious and scathingly satirical, Weston's impossibly cool murder mystery revolves around Kerry and her BFF Annie's investigations into a spate of killings carried out by the so-called menstrual murderer.
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Previous Winners

When Our Worlds Collided
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Loveless
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Meat Market
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Goodbye, Perfect
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After The Fire
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Orangeboy
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One
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Only Ever Yours YA edition
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