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RED Book Award History

Previous winners and shortlists:

RED 19 (2024-2025): This Book Kills by Ravena Guron

Nominated:

  • This Tale is Forbidden, Polly Crosby
  • How Far We’ve Come, Joyce Efia Harmer
  • 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café, Julian Sedgwick and Chie Kutsuwada

RED 18 (2023-2024): War of the Wind by Victoria Williamson

Nominated:

  • Skin of the Sea, Natasha Bowen
  • Dogs of the Deadlands, Anthony McGowan
  • Stateless, Elizabeth Wein

RED 17 (2022-2023): Last One to Die by Cynthia Murphy

Nominated:

  • Cardboard Cowboys, Brian Conaghan
  • The Younglings: Shadows and Magic, Helen Craggs
  • Needle, Patrice Lawrence

RED 16 (2021-2022): A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll 

Nominated:

  • Evernight, Ross MacKenzie
  • Run, Rebel, Manjeet Mann
  • Hold Back the Tide, Melinda Salisbury

RED 15 (2020-2021 award): Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin 

Nominated:

  • Summer Bird Blue, Akemi Dawn Bowman
  • A Pocketful of Stars, Aisha Bushby
  • My Name’s Not Friday, Jon Walter

RED 14 (2019-2020 award): The Quiet at the End of the World by Lauren James 

Nominated:

  • Orphan Monster Spy, Matt Killeen
  • The Closest Thing to Flying, Gill Lewis
  • Outwalkers, Fiona Shaw

RED 13 (2018-2019 award): Sunflowers in February by Phyllida Shrimpton

Nominated:

  • Kick, Mitch Johnson
  • I am Traitor, Sif Sigmarsdottir
  • Sky Thieves, Dan Walker

RED 12 (2017-2018 award): Welcome to Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird       

Nominated:

  • Boy X, Dan Smith
  • Hell and High Water, Tanya Landman
  • Rebel of the Sands, Alwyn Hamilton

RED 11 (2016-2017 award): 13 Hours by Narinder Dhami

Nominated:

  • The Apple Tart of Hope, Sarah M Fitzgerald
  • The Year of the Rat, Clare Furniss
  • Devil You Know, Cathy MacPhail

RED 10 (2015-2016 award): Mind Blind by Lari Don

Nominated:

  • Beneath, Gill Arbuthnot
  • Salvage, Keren David
  • Inflicted, Ria Frances

RED 9 (2014-2015 award): Raining Fire by Alan Gibbons

Nominated:

  • Rat Runners, Oisin McGann
  • Mosi’s War, Cathy MacPhail
  • Soul Shadows, Alex Woolf

RED 8 (2013-2014 award): Slated by Teri Terry

Nominated:

  • Mortal Chaos, Matt Dickinson
  • Torn, David Massey
  • Mr Creecher, Chris Priestly

RED 7 (2012-2013 award): An Act of Love by Alan Gibbons

Nominated:

  • My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Annabel Pitcher
  • Gladiator, Simon Scarrow
  • Blood Red Road, Moira Young

RED 6 (2011-12 award): Wasted by Nicola Morgan

Nominated:

  • Ausländer, Paul Dowswell
  • Koh Tabu, Ann Kelley
  • Black Out, Sam Mills
  • Timeriders, Alex Scarrow

RED 5 (2010-11 award): Grass by Cathy MacPhail

Nominated:

  • Wolfcry, Julia Golding
  • Colony, J A Henderson
  • Chalkline, Jane Mitchell
  • Deathwatch, Nicola Morgan

RED 4 (2009-10 award): Divided City by Theresa Breslin

Nominated:

  • Don’t Tell, Sandra Glover
  • Beast, Ally Kennan
  • Forged in the Fire, Ann Turnbull

RED 3 (2008-09 award): Worse Than Boys by Cathy MacPhail

Nominated:

  • Message from Mia, Sandra Glover
  • Bunker 10, J A Henderson
  • Fearless, Tim Lott
  • Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea, Michael Morpurgo

RED 2 (2007-08 award): Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie

Nominated:

  • The Ice Cream Con, Jimmy Docherty
  • Ostrich Boys, Keith Gray
  • Strangled Silence, Oisin McGann
  • Spider, Linda Strachan

RED 1 (2006-07 award): Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy

Nominated:

  • The Star of Kazan, Eva Ibbotson
  • Airborn, Kenneth Oppel
  • Tamar, Mal Peet
  • Montmorency, Eleanor Updale