Another one that seems to have slipped past me:
The Branfrod Boase Shortlist
Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer, edited by Venetia Gosling, Simon & Schuster
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd, edited and published by David Fickling
Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher, edited by Anne McNeil, published by Hodder
Beast by Ally Kennen, edited by Marion Lloyd, published by Marion Lloyd/Scholastic
The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke by Sian Pattenden, edited by Aurea Carpenter, published by Short Books
You’re a bad man, Mr Gum by Andy Stanton, edited by Leah Thaxton, published by Egmont
Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma, edited by Charlie Sheppard, published by Random House
The judging panel included Nicolette Jones, writer and critic, Claudia Mody, fiction buyer for Waterstones, Annie Everall of Derbyshire Libraries and Frances Hardinge, who won last year for her debut novel, Fly by Night.
The winner will be announced at an award ceremony on Thursday, 28th June at Walker Books in London.
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