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We’re delighted to end 2025 with thirteen fiction and non-fiction Books of the Year selected across Swift and Forum:
• A Beginner’s Guide to Dying by Simon Boas
• Can We Be Great Again? by Jeremy Hunt
• Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt
• God is an Englishman by Bijan Omrani
• Hostage by Eli Sharabi
• Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow
• Pots of Gold by David Hendon
• Reparations by Nigel Biggar
• Taking Manhattan by Russell Shorto
• The Incidental Feminist by Tina Gaudoin
• Margaret Thatcher by Iain Dale
• The Seventh Floor by David McCloskey
• The War on Science edited by Lawrence Krauss

Ben Shattuck’s acclaimed collection of short stories The History of Sound is the winner of the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.

Ben Shattuck‘s acclaimed collection of short stories The History of Sound has been selected as one of 4 finalists. The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award is one of the nation’s leading literary prizes.

The ‘fascinating and persuasive’ (The Herald) I Can’t Stop Thinking About VAR by Daisy Christodoulou has been included in the longlist of fourteen books for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year that ‘demonstrate the power of sport to inspire, challenge and entertain’.

‘Loosely based on the real life of fur trader Alexis St Martin, The Voyageur is a critically acclaimed novel about the difficulties of finding agency in troubled times’ – Ottawa Book Awards

Ben Shattuck‘s acclaimed collection of short stories The History of Sound has been selected as one of 10 books. The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award is one of the nation’s leading literary prizes.

The ‘examination of the nature of business genius’ Alexander Starritt‘s Drayton and Mackenzie is the first novel in fifteen years to make the longlist for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025.

Moscow X by Sunday Times-bestselling author David McCloskey has been shortlisted for the Best International Crime Fiction Award.

Ben Shattuck‘s acclaimed collection of short stories The History of Sound has been selected as one of thirty books that reflect the ‘rich storytelling landscape in America today’.

This award is given every year by the International Psychology Division (52) of the American Psychological Association to the authors of the book that makes the most significant contribution to psychology as a global discipline.

Ruthless by Anne Mette Hancock has been longlisted in the 2025 Crime Writers Association Daggers Awards in The Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger category.

The Book of Days by Francesca Kay has been shortlisted alongside five novels for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025. The Judges said: ‘Like a medieval Book of Hours, in her Book of Days Kay intertwines the natural seasons with the liturgical year so the two are braided together like an illuminated manuscript.’