North East Book Awards

The NE Teen Book Award (NETBA) was set up in 1999 and the NE Book Award (NEBA) was set up in 2005. The aim of our younger and YA awards remains the same; we want to make our young people more aware of the quality and variety of exciting writing out there, to celebrate and support both established and up and coming authors and to create opportunities for the authors to meet their avid readers.

WINNER 2025

Girl, Goddess, Queen

Fitzgerald, Bea ISBN: 9780241624289
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To hell with love, this goddess has other plans... Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie: how Persephone was a pawn in the politics of other gods. How Hades kidnapped Persephone to be his bride. How her mother, Demeter, was so distraught she caused the Earth to start dying. The real story is much more interesting. Persephone wasn't taken to hell: she jumped. There was no way she was going to be married off to some smug god more in love with himself than her. Now all she has to do is convince the Underworld's annoyingly sexy, arrogant and frankly rude ruler, Hades, to fall in line with her plan. A plan that will shake Mount Olympus to its very core. But consequences can be deadly, especially when you're already in hell . . . A fierce, fresh and enormously fun YA fantasy re-imagining from a growing TikTok superstar

- Browns Books Synopsis

Shortlist 2026

Crossan, Sarah ISBN: 9781526666574
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Downham, Jenny ISBN: 9781788453486
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Rosoff, Meg ISBN: 9781526646200
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Wood, Bill ISBN: 9780702338526
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Silver, Josh ISBN: 9780861549283
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Highly Commended

Four Good Liars

Wishart, Sarah ISBN: 9780008641955
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Layla. Kai. Liam. Fliss. Terrified big sister. Troubled surfer. Insecure genius. Pampered princess. They have nothing in common, except they were all on the school bus that morning. The morning of the crash. The morning they discovered the dead driver’s holdall, containing one million pounds – and a gun. All of them have secrets, and all of them need that money. But someone dangerous is hunting it down, and drawing closer every minute. If Layla, Kai, Liam and Fliss want to survive, they’ll need to stick together. But can four good liars really trust one another? Or are some truths just too powerful to stay buried…?

- Browns Books Synopsis