…for the Carnegie Medal! I don’t normally bother getting too excited about longlists – there are a lot of other contenders, and they’re all excellent (read them!)  – but the Carnegie is a very good longlist to be longlisted on, and it’s nice to have a chance to shout about Station Zero, which I think got a bit drowned out last year by the various  Mortal Engines spin-offs. Nice, too, despite what the Guardian calls  a ‘trend for gritty children’s books‘ to see the Carnegie recognising genre titles (the Railhead trilogy is more unashamedly sci-fi than anything else I’ve done). Thank you, everyone who nominated it!

You can see the full longlist here.