The Traitor Game by B R Collins has been announced as the winner of the tenth annual Branford Boase Award; the award was set up to reward excellence in new writers and their publishers.
The Traitor Game (edited by Emma Matthewson at Bloomsbury) is a fantasy novel set between two worlds - that of a boy's school and a dangerous world called Evgard.
Branford Boase Shortlist 2009
The Traitor Game by B R Collins, edited by Emma Matthewson (Bloomsbury).
The Toymaker by Jeremy De Quidt, edited by Bella Pearson (David Fickling Books)
Flood Child by Emily Diamand, edited by Imogen Cooper (published originally as Reavers’ Ransom by Chicken House)
Between Two Seas by Marie-Louise Jensen, edited by Liz Cross (OUP)
Bloodline by Katy Moran, edited by Denise Johnstone-Burt, (Walker Books)
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, edited by Denise Johnstone-Burt (Walker Books)
Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls, edited by Marian Lloyd (Marian Lloyd Books)
