Awards

Winner

American Library Association's Best Graphic Novels for Adults 2022

Sabba Khan

Shortlisted

Broken Frontier Breakout Talent 2023

Veronika Muchitsch

Winner

Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2022

Florian Grosset

Shortlisted

British Book Design & Production Awards 2022

Sabba Khan

Shortlisted

British Book Design & Production Awards 2022

Veronika Muchitsch

Nominated

Ignatz Awards: Outstanding Graphic Novel 2022

Sabba Khan

Longlisted

Diverse Book Awards 2022

Lisa Allen-Agostini

Shortlisted

Diverse Book Awards 2022

Yvonne Bailey-Smith

Shortlisted

Women's Prize for Fiction 2022

Lisa Allen-Agostini

Longlisted

World Illustration Awards (AOI) 2022

Zara Slattery

Longlisted

World Illustration Awards (AOI) 2022

Sabba Khan

Shortlisted

V & A Book Illustration Awards 2022

Jenny Robins

Shortlisted

Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2022

Yvonne Bailey-Smith

Shortlisted

Society of Authors Paul Torday Memorial Prize 2022

Yvonne Bailey-Smith

Winner

Jhalak Prize 2022

Sabba Khan

Shortlisted

RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2022

Yvonne Bailey-Smith

Shortlisted

Graphic Medicine Awards 2022

Zara Slattery

Longlisted

RSL Ondaatje Prize 2022

Sabba Khan

Winner

Broken Frontier Awards: Breakout Talent 2021

Sabba Khan

Shortlisted

Broken Frontier Awards: Best Publisher 2021

Shortlisted

Broken Frontier Awards: Breakout Talent 2021

Zara Slattery

Shortlisted

Broken Frontier Awards: Best Writer 2021

Darryl Cunningham

Shortlisted

Broken Frontier Awards: Best Graphic Non-fiction 2021

Florian Grosset

Shortlisted

Broken Frontier Awards: Best Graphic Non-fiction 2021

Sabba Khan

Winner

The Jewish Children’s Book Awards Writing Prize 2021

Carol Isaacs (The Surreal McCoy)

Books of the Year

Guardian BOOKS OF THE YEAR: GRAPHIC NOVELS 2021

Sabba Khan

Winner

British Book Design and Production Awards 2021

Zara Slattery

Winner

Diverse Book Awards 2021

Tammye Huf

Shortlisted

Edge Hill Prize 2021

Hannah Vincent

Top 50

BBC National Short Story Awards for ‘The Mermaid and the Tick’ 2021

Hannah Vincent

Winner

Frome Festival Short Story Competition 2021

Tony Peake

Lifetime Achievement Award

London Book Fair 2021

Margaret Busby

Longlisted

Fish Prize for ‘Her Fluttering Womb’ 2021

Elaine Chiew

Longlisted

Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year 2021

Tammye Huf

Longlisted

Mogford Prize 2021

Elaine Chiew

Shortlisted

Broken Frontier Awards Best Publisher 2020

Shortlisted

Broken Frontier Awards Best Graphic Nonfiction 2020

Carol Isaacs (The Surreal McCoy)

Shortlisted

Thrill Zone, Best Translated Thriller for the Dutch Edition 2020

Elizabeth Haynes

Runner-up

ALCS Educational Writers' Award 2020

Charlotte Amelia Poe

Shortlisted

Poetry Book Awards 2020

Elizabeth Ridout

Shortlisted

First Graphic Novel Competition 2018

Sabba Khan

Winner

Arnold Bennett Prize 2020

Lisa Blower

Winner

East Anglian Book Awards: Biography & Memoir 2020

Charlotte Amelia Poe

Longlisted

Not the Booker Prize 2020

Lisa Blower

Longlisted

Edge Hill Prize 2020

Lisa Blower

Longlisted

Edge Hill Prize 2020

Elleke Boehmer

Shortlisted

Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2020

Kate Charlesworth

Shortlisted

Polari First Book Prize 2020

Kate Charlesworth

Longlisted

Not the Wellcome Prize 2020

Ian Williams

Longlisted

Comedy Women in Print: Graphic Novel Category 2020

Kate Charlesworth

Shortlisted

Wordsmith category, 2020 DIVA Awards 2020

Kate Charlesworth

Special Mention

Best Collaborative Work, Saboteur Awards 2020

Special Mention

Best Short Story Collection, Saboteur Awards 2020

Elaine Chiew

Special Mention

Best Novella, Saboteur Awards 2020

Tara Gould

Shortlisted

Mogford Prize for 'How to Boil an Egg' 2020

Peter Adamson

Honorary Doctorate

University of Iceland 2020

Cynthia Enloe

Shortlisted

Communication Arts Illustration Competition 2020

Sarah Lightman

Shortlisted

The Arts Foundation Futures Awards, Comics Category 2020

Zara Slattery

Shortlisted

Manchester Fiction Prize 2020

Elaine Chiew

Nominated

NAACP Awards for Outstanding Literary Work 2020

Margaret Busby

Best Graphic Nonfiction

Broken Frontier Awards 2019

Darryl Cunningham

Best Graphic Nonfiction

Broken Frontier Awards 2019

Kate Charlesworth

Shortlisted

Cinnamon Literature Prize 2020

Jacqueline Haskell

Shortlisted

British Book Design and Production Awards: Graphic Novel 2019

Sarah Lightman

Shortlisted

British Book Design and Production Awards: Graphic Novel 2019

Olivier Kugler

Shortlisted

Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for ‘Supermarket Love’ 2019

Elleke Boehmer

Longlisted

Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown 2019

Elizabeth Haynes

Highly Commended

BMA Medical Book Awards: Health and Social Care 2019

Olivier Kugler

Lifetime Achievement in African Literature

Africa Writes 2019

Margaret Busby

Fellow

Royal Society of Literature 2019

Elleke Boehmer

Benson Medal Award

Royal Society of Literature 2019

Susheila Nasta

Honorary Fellow

Royal Society of Literature 2019

Susheila Nasta

Longlisted

LDComics Award 2019

Zara Slattery

Shortlisted

AOI World Illustration Awards 2019

Olivier Kugler

Winner

The Queen's Medal for Poetry 2019

Lorna Goodison

Winner

The Prix Artémisia: Fight for Feminism 2019

Una

Hall of Fame: Corinne Pearlman, Myriad Creative Director

Broken Frontier 2019

Shortlisted

Broken Frontier Best Book on Comics Award 2018

Simon Grennan

Winner

Broken Frontier Best Book on Comics Award 2018

Nicola Streeten

Shortlisted

Broken Frontier Best Nonfiction Graphic Novel Award 2018

Olivier Kugler

Longlisted

BBC National Short Story Award for ‘Fron’ 2018

Lisa Blower

Longlisted

The Sunday Times Short Story Award for ‘Abdul’ 2018

Lisa Blower

Shortlisted

Staunch Book Prize 2018

Peter Adamson

Winner

First Graphic Novel Competition 2018

Jenny Robins

Winner

Prix du Carnet de Voyage International 2018

Olivier Kugler

Winner

Coup de Coeur Médecins Sans Frontières Prize 2018

Olivier Kugler

Nominated

International Travel Sketchbook Prize 2018

Olivier Kugler

Shortlisted

First Graphic Novel Competition 2018

Zara Slattery

Longlisted

Bangalore Literary Festival Book Prize 2018

Manu Joseph

Shortlisted

DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018

Manu Joseph

Longlisted

LDComics Award 2018

Jenny Robins

Jury Prize

European Design Awards 2018

Olivier Kugler

Second Prize

Bridport Prize for ‘The Heartsick Diaspora’ 2018

Elaine Chiew

Longlisted

Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2018

S.V. Berlin

Shortlisted

Manchester Fiction Prize 2017

Hannah Vincent

Highly Commended

The Bridport Prize 2017

Ruth Figgest

Selection Officielle

Festival d'Angoulême 2018

Gareth Brookes

Longlisted

Not the Booker Prize 2017

Nicholas Royle

Shortlisted

The Polari First Book Prize

Jules Grant

Shortlisted

CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

Jules Grant

Shortlisted

Waverton Good Read Award 2017

Umi Sinha

Selected

New York Times: Season's Best Graphic Novels 2016

Una

Longlisted

Tata Literature Live! First Book Award 2016

Umi Sinha

Shortlisted

British Book Design and Production Awards 2016

Una

Longlisted

Historical Writers' Association Goldbsoro Debut Crown 2016

Umi Sinha

Shortlisted

Cross Sports Book Awards: New Writer of the Year 2016

Emily Bullock

Shortlisted

Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2016

Umi Sinha

Winner

Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2016

Benjamin Johncock

Longlisted

Waverton Good Read Award 2016

Sara Marshall-Ball

Shortlisted

Broken Frontier Awards: Best Graphic Novel 2015

Una

Highly Commended

Bridport Prize for ‘The Land of Make Believe’ 2015

Lisa Blower

Shortlisted

British Comic Awards – Best Book 2015

Darryl Cunningham

Longlisted

Not the Booker Prize 2015

Emily Bullock

Longlisted

Not the Booker Prize 2015

Benjamin Johncock

Shortlisted

EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards 2015

Benjamin Johncock

Shortlisted

Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize 2015

Una

Highly Commended

British Medical Association Book Award: Primary Health Care Category 2015

Ian Williams

Shortlisted

Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize 2015

Ian Williams

Shortlisted

British Book Design and Production Awards 2015

Darryl Cunningham

Shortlisted

Premio Letteraria 2015

Sally O'Reilly

Shortlisted

Wales Book of the Year 2015

Tyler Keevil

Shortlisted

AOI World Illustration Award 2015

Darryl Cunningham

Longlisted

CWA Dagger in the Library 2015

Elizabeth Haynes

Longlisted

The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2015

Tyler Keevil

Longlisted

Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2015

Tyler Keevil

Silver

IPPY Award 2015

Tyler Keevil

Winner

Broken Frontier Awards – Best Writer 2014

Darryl Cunningham

Longlisted

British Comic Awards – Best Book 2014

Gareth Brookes

Shortlisted

First Graphic Novel Competition 2014

Henny Beaumont

Winner

Writers’ Trust of Canada / McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize 2014

Tyler Keevil

Best Thriller

Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award 2014

Lisa Cutts

Finalist

People's Book Prize for Fiction 2014/2015

Nina de la Mer

Winner

People's Choice Wales Book of the Year Award 2014

Tyler Keevil

Winner

First Graphic Novel Competition 2014

Jade Sarson

Nominated

Kirkus Reviews Fiction Prize 2014

Sally O'Reilly

Pick of the Year

Scottish Book Trust 2014

Liam Murray Bell

Shortlisted

Scottish Book Awards Best First Book 2013

Liam Murray Bell

Longlisted

Waverton Good Read Award 2013

Lisa Cutts

Winner

Broken Frontier Awards – Best Original Graphic Novel 2013

Gareth Brookes

Shortlisted

BBC National Short Story Award for ‘Barmouth’ 2013

Lisa Blower

Winner

De Crimezone Best Debut Thriller 2013

Elizabeth Haynes

Shortlisted

Graphic Scotland 9th Art Award 2013

Hannah Eaton

Shortlisted

Sainsbury's First Book Award 2013

Fayette Fox

Shortlisted

Amazon Rising Stars 2013

Fayette Fox

Winner

People's Book Prize for Fiction 2013

Sue Eckstein

Nominated

YALSA – Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2013

Darryl Cunningham

Longlisted

Waverton Good Read Award 2012

Liam Murray Bell

Longlisted

Waverton Good Read Award 2012

Ed Siegle

Shortlisted

First Graphic Novel Competition 2012

Paula Knight

Longlisted

First Graphic Novel Competition 2012

Ian Williams

Shortlisted

First Graphic Novel Competition 2012

Hannah Eaton

Shortlisted

British Comic Awards: Best Book 2012

Darryl Cunningham

Winner

First Graphic Novel Competition 2012

Gareth Brookes

Highly Commended

British Medical Association Book Award: Popular Medicine Category 2012

Nicola Streeten

Winner

Prix des Lecteurs 2012

Elizabeth Haynes

Shortlisted

Thrillerboek.nl Best Debut Thriller 2012

Elizabeth Haynes

Shortlisted

Hookline Novel Competition 2012

Hannah Vincent

First Book Award

Anobii 2012

Natasha Soobramanien

Shortlisted

Amazon Rising Stars 2012

Natasha Soobramanien

Shortlisted

Brit Writers Published Writer of the Year Award 2011

Tom Connolly

Shortlisted

Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award 2011

Tom Connolly

Longlisted

CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2011

Elizabeth Haynes

Longlisted

Desmond Elliott Prize 2011

Tom Connolly

Winner

Amazon Rising Stars 2011

Elizabeth Haynes

Shortlisted

Waverton Good Read Award 2010

Elizabeth Haynes

Shortlisted

Waverton Good Read Award 2010

Tom Connolly

Shortlisted

The Green Carnation Prize 2010

Jonathan Kemp

Shortlisted

Polari First Book Prize 2010

Jonathan Kemp

Winner

QRG Best Book (Fiction) 2010

Jonathan Kemp

Winner

Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2010

Jonathan Kemp

Winner

People's Book Prize for Fiction 2010

Lesley Thomson

Shortlisted

People's Book Prize for Fiction 2010

Elizabeth Haynes

Selected title

Waterstones New Voices 2010

Ed Hillyer

Shortlisted

Waverton Good Read Award 2009

Isabel Ashdown

Winner

The Guardian National Short Story Award for ‘Broken Crockery’ 2009

Lisa Blower
Atlas of health

Winner

BMA Board of Science Award for the Public Understanding of Science 2008

Kate Evans

Runner-up

Earthworks Ken Sprague International Cartoon Competition 2008

Winner

Mail on Sunday Novel Competition 2008

Isabel Ashdown

Winner

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards – Best Culinary History Book 2008

Winner

Bridport Prize for ‘Face’ 2008

Elaine Chiew

Best of Reference

New York Library Association 2008

Joanne O'Brien

Best of the Best

American Library Association Books You Should Know About 2007

Dan Smith OBE
Atlas of health

Winner

BMA Medical Book Award for Public Health 2008

Winner

Planeta Environment Book of the Year 2006

Kirstin Dow

Highly Commended

BMA Medical Book Award 2005

Diarmuid O'Donovan

Winner

American Association of Geographers Media Achievement Award 2005

Winner

André Simon Memorial Fund Book Award 2003

Highly Commended

BUPA Medical Writing and Illustration 1994

Diarmuid O'Donovan