Braithwaite has been shortlisted within the Fiction class for her new novel Cursed Daughters.
The complete shortlist, that includes books nominated in a number of classes, was printed on the Awards web site on twentieth November 2025.
This 12 months’s shortlisted books provide an unlimited vary of topics and themes for readers of all tastes. Histories of all types function, together with: forgotten crafts and tradition, under-recognised teams who’ve made nice contributions to British life, essential intervals in latest geopolitical historical past, forgotten artists, and historic prejudices – in addition to extra urgent up to date points such because the small boats disaster and the local weather.
Braithwaite is the best-selling creator of My Sister The Serial Killer (2018), which has now been translated into 30 languages and bought tens of millions of copies. It received the 2019 LA Instances Award for Finest Crime Thriller, the 2019 Morning Information Event of Books, the 2019 Amazon Publishing Reader’s Award for Finest Debut Novel, and the 2019 Anthony Award for Finest First Novel. It was additionally shortlisted for the 2019 Ladies’s Prize for Fiction, and longlisted for each the 2019 Booker Prize and the 2020 Dublin Literary Award.
Braithwaite has printed a number of quick tales over the previous couple of years for a wide range of publications and platforms, together with Audible and McSweeney’s. She additionally wrote a novella The Child Is Mine in help of grownup literacy. Alongside her work as a novelist, she can also be a screenwriter with two initiatives in growth for tv and one function movie, the latter an adaptation of her first novel.
Her e-book Cursed Daughters (printed by Atlantic Books) tells the story of a curse handed down from technology to technology, ruining households and breaking hearts. After falling in love with a good-looking boy she saves from drowning, daughter Eniiyi should lastly confront the household historical past or escape the mysterious destiny that befell her aunt. The Fiction judges for this 12 months’s awards — Sarah Gwonyoma, Sinéad Gleeson and Chrissy Ryan — have described it as “a mesmerising literary experience filled with superstition, humour and love.”
The mission of the Nero E-book Awards is to level readers of all ages and pursuits within the path of excellent books and writers. Uniquely celebrating books throughout a number of genres, the Awards function shortlists and winners throughout 4 classes — Kids’s Fiction, Fiction, Debut Fiction and Non-Fiction — and culminates with one e-book being topped total winner of the Gold Prize E-book of the 12 months. The Nero Gold Prize winner will obtain £30,000, whereas class winners will obtain £5,000 every.
Established as a not-for-profit organisation, the Nero E-book Awards are run by the impartial, family-owned espresso home group, Caffè Nero, in partnership with the Booksellers Affiliation and Brunel College of London.
“I’m vastly impressed by the standard of the books on this 12 months’s shortlists. It actually showcases the expertise and high quality of writing throughout the nation. I do know the judges discovered every class very sturdy and deciding on the shortlists took a variety of debate. After I arrange these Awards it was to have a good time nice writing and nice books to learn and to showcase books which you’d suggest to buddies, household and other people you understand. This listing greater than does that. That is the strongest listing of books the Nero E-book Awards has seen but and is indicative of the Awards going from power to power”, stated Gerry Ford, Founder and CEO of Caffè Nero, commenting on this 12 months’s shortlist.
The class winners shall be introduced on thirteenth January 2026. The 2025 Nero Gold Prize shall be introduced reside at a ceremony in London on 4th March 2026, when the E-book Of The 12 months shall be chosen from the 4 class winners.
