YA Book Prize 2024 Winner

Lex Croucher has won the YA Book Prize 2024 for Gwen & Art Are Not in Love (Bloomsbury YA). 
The novel was revealed as the winner of the award on 22nd August, at a ceremony hosted by judge Alice Oseman at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Other titles on the shortlist were:
How to Die Famous by Benjamin Dean (Simon & Schuster)
Girl, Goddess, Queen by Bea Fitzgerald (Penguin Children’s) 
This Book Kills by Ravena Guron (Usborne)
This Is How You Fall In Love by Anika Hussain (Hot Key Books)
The First Move by Jenny Ireland (Penguin Children’s)
Yours From the Tower by Sally Nicholls (Andersen Press) 
HappyHead by Josh Silver (Rock the Boat)
Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven (Electric Monkey)  
Murder on a School Night by Kate Weston (Electric Monkey)

The YA Book Prize was launched by The Bookseller in 2014 to celebrate fiction for teenagers and young adults from the UK and Ireland. 

Further details in The Bookseller