See the shortlist of books for the Indie Book Awards 2025.
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DJ Paulette
Welcome to the ClubFeaturing a foreword from Annie MacAn inspiring...Featuring a foreword from Annie MacAn inspiring memoir-manifesto from one of the UK’s leading DJs. In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of her th... -
Olivia Laing
The Garden Against TimeWhen Olivia Laing began to restore a walled gar...When Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants, the work drew them into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with g... -
Carol Atherton
Reading LessonsAn English teacher's love letter to reading and...An English teacher's love letter to reading and the many ways literature can make us, and our lives, better. How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encou... -
Callum Robinson
IngrainedIngrained is a love letter to trees, timber and...Ingrained is a love letter to trees, timber and craftsmanship – and to finding your own voice. The eldest son of a Master Woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surrounded by wood and tree... -
Jessica J. Lee
Dispersals:Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Wels...Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion. In Dispersals, she examines the echoes and counterpoints in the migrat... -
Jane Cholmeley
A Bookshop of One’s Own:The captivating true story of an underdog busin...The captivating true story of an underdog business – a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher’s Britain – from a woman at the heart of the women’s liberation movement. What was it like to start a fe... -
Jacqueline Wilson
Think AgainNo job. No love life. Perhaps it's time to THIN...No job. No love life. Perhaps it's time to THINK AGAIN. Ellie Allard isn’t quite where she thought she'd be by her late thirties. Though she’s got her beautiful daughter, her beloved cat and the be... -
Tracy Chevalier
The GlassmakerVenice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Ti...Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives perfecting. In secret, Orsola Rosso learns to craft glass. As a wom... -
Andrew O'Hagan
Caledonian RoadHe always knew: when his life came tumbling dow...He always knew: when his life came tumbling down, it would occur in public. Campbell Flynn is fuelled by an appetite for wealth and admiration, controversy and novelty. An art historian and celebri... -
Kevin Barry
The Heart in WinterHe was ready to die for love. He just needed to...He was ready to die for love. He just needed to find the right girl. October, 1891. Tom Rourke is a poet struggling to make a life amongst the Irish migrant workers in Butte, Montana. He is a doper... -
Elif Shafak
There Are Rivers in the SkyThere Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping...There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting chara... -
Percival Everett
JamesThe Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved ...The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson’s...
