Shortlist & Winners 2024

Shortlist & Winners

Best British Book

Shortlist

Frozen Hell (Numbered Edition)
Areté Editions

William Edwards - England
Bahson Colour Print

Cannonball!
Colour Point

LVMH Métiers d’Art  
Colour Point

A Savage Kingdom
Hurtwood 

Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Folio Society

Fine Binding & Limited Edition

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The Starless Sea
Books Illustrated Ltd

The Culture: The Drawings - Deluxe 'Special Circumstances' Edition
Little, Brown Book Group

All Around the Block: The Fleece Press from Start to Finish 
Northend

Project UrbEx (Collector's Edition)
Thames & Hudson

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
The Folio Society

Brand / Series Identity

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Little Guides to Nature
Hachette Children's Group

Little Experts Series
Farshore

Iain M Banks: The Culture Series
Little, Brown Book Group

Little People, Big Dreams Series
Quarto

Women Writers Series
The British Library

Agatha Christie
The Folio Society

Self-Published Books

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LVMH Métiers d’Art  
Colour Point

Leading with Impact
Empress London

New Romantics
Empress London

Great Ormond Street Passport Book
FE Burman

Alta – A Human Atlas of a City of Angels
The Glassworks

Exhibition Catalogues

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Henry Moore in Miniature
Empress London

Patrick Hughes: The Newest Perspective 
Empress London

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine
Hayward Publishing

When Forms Come Alive: Sixty Years of Restless Sculpture
Hayward Publishing

Leonor Antunes - The Apparent Length of a Floor Area
The Fruitmarket Gallery

Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection
V&A Publishing

Photographic Books

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Boys! Boys! Boys!
Empress London

Bittersweet: A Story of Food and Yemen
Medina Publishing

Portraits by Kate Friend
Ridinghouse

Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage
Thames & Hudson

Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective
Thames & Hudson

The Planets
The Folio Society

Art / Architecture Monographs

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Sea Pools B.T.
Batsford Ltd

Humanise Ben
Prescott Design

Roundhouse
Empress London

Ptolemy Mann: Thread Painting
Hurtwood 

An Atlas of Es Devlin
Thames & Hudson

Illustrators' Sketchbooks
Thames & Hudson

Graphic Novels

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Rune: The Tale of a Thousand Faces
Flying Eye Books

Single Mothering
Flying Eye Books

Cross My Heart and Never Lie
Farshore

Witchcraft: A Graphic History
Quarto

Trade Illustrated

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The Animal Mind
Abrams Books

Marr's Guitars
Thames & Hudson

Underworlds
Thames & Hudson

The Book by Design
The British Library

42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams
Unbound

Lifestyle Illustrated

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Afro Sport dlm 
Creative

Natural Wine, No Drama
Pavilion Books

Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen
Penguin Press

Pocha
Quadrille

Cabin
Thames & Hudson

Bold: Big Flavour Twists to Classic Dishes
Watkins Media

Literature

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Caliban's War
Little, Brown Book Group

Gitanjali
The Folio Society

The Night Before Christmas
The Folio Society

The Song of Achilles
The Folio Society

The Underground Railroad
The Folio Society

Educational Books

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My Lumps and Bumps Cancer
Get Better Books

This is Skateboarding
Farshore

British Museum: Celebrate!
Nosy Crow

Dig, Dig, Dinosaur
Nosy Crow

Britannica's Encyclopedia Infographica
What on Earth!

Scholarly, Academic and Reference Book

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The Oxford Companion to Wine
Oxford University Press

Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments
Thames & Hudson

Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words
Thames & Hudson

On the Origin of Species
The Folio Society

Pandaemonium
The Folio Society

Children’s Trade 0 to 8 Years

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Begin Again
HarperCollins Children's Books

Dinosaur's Wobbly Bottom
Farshore

D is for Dog
Nosy Crow

Hen in the Bed
Nosy Crow

National Trust: 'Tis the Season
Nosy Crow

Number Train
Nosy Crow

The Lucky Red Envelope
Quarto

The Skull
Walker Books

Children’s Trade 9 to 16 Years

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Rune: The Tale of a Thousand Faces
Flying Eye Books

Paper Dragons: The Fight for the Hidden Realm
Hachette Children's Group

Tales from Shakespeare
HarperCollins Children's Books

Evolution
What on Earth!

Best Jacket / Cover Design

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Brutto
Ebury, Penguin Random House

A New Way to Bake
Quadrille

Good Eggs
Quadrille

Occult
Thames & Hudson

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe
The Folio Society

The Planets
The Folio Society

The Underground Railroad
The Folio Society

Best Student Book

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For the Record
Zoe Davis, National College of Art and Design

Gut Feelings
Laura Flanagan, National College of Art and Design

A Relationship with Nature
Brynley Moore, UWE Bristol

The Mess of Consumerism
Erne Rodgers, National College of Art and Design

Ginger: A Book Featuring Everything Ginger
Charlie Rozario, UWE Bristol

You have just been diagnosed with ADHD
Roisin Scott, National College of Art and Design

Book of the Year