Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking

Han Smith

Han Smith’s debut novel, Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking, was shortlisted for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize.

poyums

Len Pennie

poyums, the #2 Sunday Times-bestselling debut poetry collection by Scots language poet and author Len Pennie, won Scots Book o the Year at the 2024 Scots Language Awards. poyums was also shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Award 2024.

Len’s debut won the Discover Award at the 2025 British Book Awards.

Zero Days

Ruth Ware

Zero Days, the New York Times-bestselling propulsive thriller by Ruth Ware, was shortlisted for the 2024 Best International Crime Fiction Ned Kelly Award.

Crossing the Line

Tia Fisher

Crossing the Line, the gripping narrative verse YA novel by Tia Fisher, won the UKLA Book Awards 11-14 category as well as the prestigious Yoto Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice Medal for Writing. Learn more about the Carnegies here.

Rock Paper Killers

Alexia Mason

Rock Paper Killers, the addictive debut YA thriller by Alexia Mason, won the 2023-2024 Panda Book Award for mature readers.

The Real Happy Valley

Alice Vinten

The Real Happy Valley, the collection of real-life stories about female police officers serving across Yorkshire by former police officer Alice Vinten, was shortlisted for the True Crime Awards Book of the Year 2024.

Deadlock

Simon Fox

Deadlock, the exhilarating heist thriller from Branford Boase-longlisted author Simon Fox, won the Chapter Chasers Secondary Book Award.

The It Girl

Ruth Ware

Ruth Ware’s “irresistible” (Crime Monthly) mystery New York Times-bestselling thriller The It Girl was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023 and the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for Best Mystery. It was selected as a Richard and Judy Summer Book Club Collection.

Running Out of Time

Simon Fox

Running Out of Time, the unputdownable debut novel by author Simon Fox, was longlisted for the 2023 Branford Boase Award.

One by One

Ruth Ware

Ruth Ware’s One by One was shortlisted for the The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for blockbuster thrillers in the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger awards.

Nightingale Point

Luan Goldie

Luan Goldie’s debut novel Nightingale Point was longlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction and the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020.

This Little Dark Place

A. S. Hatch

A. S. Hatch’s debut novel This Little Dark Place was longlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2020.

The Stopping Places

Damian Le Bas

The Stopping Places by Damian Le Bas was longlisted for The Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award and the Society of Authors’ Somerset Maugham Awards.

Daughter

Jane Shemilt

Jane Shemilt’s debut psychological suspense novel Daughter was selected for the Richard & Judy Autumn Collection 2014.

The Twins

Saskia Sarginson

Saskia Sarginson’s The Twins was selected as a Richard and Judy Book Club pick for the Autumn 2013 Collection.

A Cupboard Full of Coats

Yvvette Edwards

Yvvette Edwards’s debut novel A Cupboard Full of Coats was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011 and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum!

Andy Stanton

Andy Stanton’s hilarious middle-grade debut, You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum!, was picked as one of  four Richard & Judy Book Club picks for children aged 7+.