In an unnamed Northern Irish community, an eighteen-year-old narrator is pursued by a man known as Milkman and becomes trapped in rumor, surveillance, and communal pressure. The novel renders political division, sexual coercion, and silence through a radically distinctive voice.

An unnamed voice records the suffocation of a young woman living inside a violent age.

Beginning with the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville in Belfast, this nonfiction book investigates memory, silence, and the afterlives of political violence in Northern Ireland.

An unspoken crime continues to unsettle a society after peace.

Suzanne Moore's winning work was a body of journalism rather than a single book. Her columns addressed political culture after #MeToo, remembrance, and public life around Brexit with forceful commentary.

Through commentary, politics is brought back to feeling, memory, and the body.

Steve Bloomfield's winning work was a set of journalism pieces rather than a single book. His submitted articles examined diplomacy, Brexit, political leadership, and the state of investigative reporting.

The work probes political backrooms through careful reporting.

Max Daly's Behind County Lines was a series of reports, not a single book, investigating drug networks and the exploitation of young people in Britain. It exposed how urban gangs expanded into rural markets and drew children into harm.

Behind the criminal system lies the overlooked harm done to young people.