The Carnegie Greenaway Shortlist for 2016 was released yesterday – these are the titles that are in the running for this prestigious prize:

• There Will Be Lies, by Nick Lake – featured here on the blog in January
• The Rest of Us Just Live Here, by Patrick Ness – which I need to get back from one of the S6 before it can be reviewed!
• Five Children on the Western Front, by Kate Saunders – featured in February this year here
• One, by Sarah Crossan – which I loved and raved about here
• The Lie Tree, by Frances Hardinge- it has already won the Costa Award this year, read about it here
• The Ghosts of Heaven, by Marcus Sedgwick – a wonderful spiral of a read
• Fire Colour One, by Jenny Valentine – on my reading list for next weekend
• Lies We Tell Ourselves, by Robin Talley – the only one of the shortlist that we do not have in the library, yet…

And on the Greenaway list is one of our Books of the Week from last year, The Sleeper and the Spindle, which is by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell, and has lovely words and beautiful pictures!

All the books are on the display area just inside the Library doors.