Long List: Novel Opening 2025

A Girl Called Redemption by Sophie Neville

And So Monsters We Became by Jesse Weiner

Before We Became Men by Osman Njai

Blood and Bloom in Las Vegas by Marié M. Mullany

Bluestocking by Ruth Goldstraw

Codename Charlotta by Katharine Rogers

Complete Gothic Tales from 1503 by G R McDougall

Disaster by Deborah Lee-Swaden

Distant Bodies by Beth Guza

Elefante by Dianne Bown-Wilson

Elita Moon and The Lesson of Twelve by Sara Spence

Fierce Siblings by Shirley Skeel

Girl in the Headline by Jane Keightley

It’s Some Kind of Life by Kelly Railton

Jane, Forgotten by Jinny Alexander

Joan of the Skies by Louise Mangos

Love is For the Brave by Sophie Neville

Parable of an Irish Girl by Edie Fletcher

Signals of Change by Mallery Turner

Small Boy by Jamie D Stacey

Sunrise on an Unlikely Safari by Zoe Dunkley

Suzanne by Michael Saxton

The Ages of Elizabeth by Anne Meale

The Betrothed by Jeffery Stephens

The Calm Blink of the Cane Toad by Peter Slater

The Dreaming Tree by Michelle Marie McGrath

The Egg Lady by Frances Colville

The House on Norfolk Street by Gill Edwards

The Jackpot by Joanne McClean

The Legacy by Kate Sheehan-Finn

The Melusine Murders by Jesse Weiner

The Nonchalant Ocelot by John Glander

The Otherside by Matthew PIckering

The Outrageously Fabulous World of Terry Logan by John Davies

The Rebuilding of Freya Michaels by Tessa Barrie

The Rhythm of Time by Richard Attree

The Shadow Puppet by David Griffiths

The Unravelling of Ivor Unthank by Jinny Alexander

The Warrior of Birds by Anita Bowden

The Witch and her Rose by Rachel Graham

Thread by Jane Yettram

Vale Queen by Matthew Tibble

What the Tide Took by Evie Quet

Where the Quiet Fought Back by Olive Nakakeeto

Who Lies in the Woods by HJ Hilo

Zafirah’s Gift by Greg Bayer

Zipporah’s Daughters by Kevin Gerard Neill