The winner of the Costa Book of the Year award, The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children’s Books) is also listed, as is Asking for It by Louise O’Neill (Quercus), who won the 2015 YA Book Prize for her debut novel Only Ever Yours. The two books published by David Fickling Books on the shortlist are Jenny Downham’s Unbecoming, a novel about three generations of women in one family, and Lisa Williamson’s The Art of Being Normal, which is about transgender teenagers.
The shortlist for the prize, which is for YA authors based in the UK and Ireland, includes Bloomsbury’s Concentr8 by William Sutcliffe, a satire of contemporary urban life, and One by Sarah Crossan, a story about conjoined twins written in blank verse. Independent publishers Bloomsbury Children’s and David Fickling Books are leading the shortlist for this year’s Bookseller’s YA Book Prize, run in association with book printer Clays.
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