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Celebrating the best YA fiction in the UK & Ireland with @thebookseller and the Edinburgh International Book Festival ✨

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The YA Book Prize
19 days
And the winner of the #YABookPrize 2025 is... Songlight by Moira Buffini (@faberbooks)🏆✨ A stand-out speculative novel that shines a light on our own world, says the chair of the YA Book Prize Caroline Carpenter 📚 Find out more here 👉 https://t.co/uI5SIkvZtr
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@thebookseller
The Bookseller
19 days
Moira Buffini’s "captivating" dystopian debut novel, Songlight (@FaberBooks), has been named as the winner of the #YABookPrize 2025 (@yabookprize) 👇
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Moira Buffini’s "captivating" dystopian debut novel, Songlight (Faber), has been named as the winner of the YA Book Prize 2025.
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The YA Book Prize
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A huge congratulations and thank you to all of our amazing #YABookPrize shortlistees ✨📚🫶
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The YA Book Prize
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We're at Edinburgh International Book Festival (@edbookfest) for the #YABookPrize 2025 🏆 To celebrate it, we're offering 20% off subscriptions to The Bookseller for attendees 🎟️💡 Access the offer here 👉 https://t.co/YFbO2Je9dr
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The YA Book Prize
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‘When we decided to write a book together we realised we never saw representation of how we see the world. We wanted to show the diverse Muslim community that we came from’ says @adiba_j on Four Eids and a Funeral 📚
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The YA Book Prize
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‘I was mostly inspired by my own climate anxiety and how insane the world is’, said O R Sorrel on Apocalypse Cow 🐄
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The YA Book Prize
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For our next panel at the #YABookPrize we are joined by the fabulous @leanneeggg, O R Sorrel, @adiba_j and Farida Àbíké-Íyímídé 🤩
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The YA Book Prize
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@SarahCrossan “I had this idea of two women who said no and then men decided there were consequences’, Bea Fitzgerald says on The End Crowns All 👑
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The YA Book Prize
19 days
“I love love stories that are difficult. I loved twilight. I love those unrequited love stories. And I wanted to write about the great hunger”, says @SarahCrossan on Where the Heart Should Be 📚
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The YA Book Prize
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For our wonderful first panel at the #YABookPrize we were joined by Sarah Crossan, Bea Fitzgerald, Moira Buffini, Danielle Jawando and Margaret McDonald 📣
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The YA Book Prize
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The day has arrived! 🤩✨ Today we will be announcing the fabulous winner of the #YABookPrize and celebrating our wonderful authors and books 📚 Stay tuned to find out the winner…🥁
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The YA Book Prize
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We’ve just touched down in Edinburgh ready for the #YA Book Prize at @edbookfest 📍📚 Stayed tuned for more��✨
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The YA Book Prize
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We're on our way to Edinburgh International Book Festival for the #YABookPrize 2025 🏆 To celebrate it, we're offering 20% off subscriptions to The Bookseller for attendees 🎟️💡 Access the offer here 👉 https://t.co/YFbO2Je9dr
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The YA Book Prize
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It's nearly time...✨ The #YABookPrize 2025 winner will be announced on Thursday 21st August at Edinburgh Book Festival 🏆
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The YA Book Prize
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We'll be at Edinburgh International Book Festival next week for the #YABookPrize 2025🏆 To celebrate it, we're offering 20% off subscriptions to The Bookseller for attendees 🎟️💡 Access the offer here 👉 https://t.co/YFbO2JeH2Z
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The Bookseller
1 month
Bloomsbury YA has acquired Lex Croucher’s Bridget and Gabe Are Not Okay, the sequel to the queer medieval romcom Gwen and Art Are Not in Love (Bloomsbury YA) 👇
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Bloomsbury YA has acquired Lex Croucher’s Bridget and Gabe Are Not Okay, the sequel to the queer medieval romcom Gwen and Art Are Not in Love (Bloomsbury YA).
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The YA Book Prize
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We spoke to #YABookPrize shortlisted author, Margaret McDonald, about her book Glasgow Boys 📖
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The YA Book Prize
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We asked Margaret McDonald, author of Glasgow Boys, to describe her #YABookPrize shortlisted novel in three words 💙💛
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The YA Book Prize
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Danielle Jawando, author of If My Words Had Wings, talks to us about the inspiration behind her #YABookPrize shortlisted novel 🪽 Read more 👉 https://t.co/gDd8RUDFtB
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The YA Book Prize
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We asked author of The Reappearance of Rachel Price (@EMTeenFiction), Holly Jackson (@asgoodasdeadd), to describe her #YABookPrize shortlisted novel in three words 🎬✨
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