| British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Works over 40,000 words |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Fantasy Society |
| First award | 2012 |
| Most recent winner | Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi |
| Website | britishfantasysociety |
| Related | British Fantasy Award for Best Novel British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel |
The British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, also known as the Robert Holdstock Award, is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards. The award is named after British author Robert Holdstock. The British Fantasy Society originally awarded only one Best Novel award annually. After the awards were reorganized in 2012, the best novel category was divided into fantasy and horror categories.
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* Winners
| Year | Author | Work | Publisher | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Jo Walton * | Among Others | Tor Books | [1] |
| 2013 | Graham Joyce * | Some Kind of Fairy Tale | Gollancz | [2] |
| Joe Abercrombie | Red Country | Gollancz | [2] | |
| Margo Lanagan | The Brides of Rollrock Island | David Fickling Books | [2] | |
| China Miéville | Railsea | Macmillan Publishers | [2] | |
| Lou Morgan | Blood and Feathers | Solaris Books | [2] | |
| 2014 | Sofia Samatar* | A Stranger in Olondria | ||
| 2015 | Frances Hardinge* | Cuckoo Song | ||
| 2016 | Naomi Novik* | Uprooted | ||
| 2017 | Adrian Tchaikovsky* | The Tiger and the Wolf | ||
| 2018 | Jen Williams* | The Ninth Rain | ||
| 2019 | Jen Williams* | The Bitter Twins | ||
| Tasha Suri | Empire of Sand | |||
| Robert Jackson Bennett | Foundryside | |||
| Juliet E. McKenna | The Green Man's Heir | |||
| Aliya Whiteley | The Loosening Skin | |||
| Peter McLean | Priest of Bones | |||
| 2020 | R. J. Barker* | The Bone Ships | ||
| Helen Marshall | The Migration | |||
| Jen Williams | The Poison Song | |||
| Alix E. Harrow | The Ten Thousand Doors of January | |||
| 2021 | Alix E. Harrow* | The Once and Future Witches | ||
| Andrea Stewart | The Bone Shard Daughter | |||
| Lavie Tidhar | By Force Alone | |||
| N.K. Jemisin | The City We Became | |||
| Rym Kechacha | Dark River | |||
| Tiffani Angus | Threading the Labyrinth | |||
| 2022 | Shelley Parker-Chan* | She Who Became the Sun | ||
| Mike Brooks | The Black Coast | |||
| Tasha Suri | The Jasmine Throne | |||
| Lucy Holland | Sistersong | |||
| Lorraine Wilson | This is Our Undoing | |||
| C. L. Clark | The Unbroken | |||
| 2023 | Simon Jimenez* | The Spear Cuts Through Water | ||
| Sara A. Mueller | The Bone Orchard | |||
| Cat Hellisen | Cast Long Shadows | |||
| Oliver K. Langmead | Glitterati | |||
| Tasha Suri | The Oleander Sword | |||
| David Green | Path of War | |||
| 2024 | Jen Williams* | Talonsister | Titan Books | |
| Samantha Shannon | A Day of Fallen Night | Bloomsbury | ||
| David Green | At Eternity’s Gates | Eerie River Publishing | ||
| David Green | Beyond Sundered Seas | Eerie River Publishing | ||
| Wole Talabi | Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon | DAW Books | ||
| 2025 | O.O. Sangoyomi* | Masquerade | Forge Books | |
| Juliet E. McKenna | The Green Man’s War | Wizard's Tower Press | ||
| Eliza Chan | Fathomfolk | Orbit Books | ||
| Sarah Rees Brennan | Long Live Evil | Orbit Books | ||
| David Green | A Shadow Over Haven | Eerie River Publishing |