Runner-up, Best Novel, 2025
A Sorceress Comes to Call
T. Kingfisher (opens in a new tab)
A girl whose mother is a sorceress who controls her body follows her to a country house, where her mother sets out to marry a rich man.
The ballot
- The Tainted CupRobert Jackson BennettDel Rey, Hodderscape UKWinner
- Alien ClayAdrian TchaikovskyOrbit US, Tor UK
- Someone You Can Build a Nest InJohn WiswellDAW
- Service ModelAdrian TchaikovskyTordotcom
- The Ministry of TimeKaliane BradleyAvid Reader Press, Sceptre