Carnegie Shortlist Announced

One of my favourite literature-related events of the year has always been the announcement of the CLIP Carnegie Book Award shortlist, and as ever this year my anticipation has been justified with a list of not famous but consistently excellent novels that I can't wait to bring you reviews of in the near future. Here's the list:
PRISONER OF THE INQUISITION (THERESA BRENLIN)- Two children on opposite sides of class and wealth find their fates tragically intertwined as the Spanish Inquisition arrives on their doorstep.
THE DEATH DEFYING PEPPER ROUX (GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN)- Pepper Roux wakes up on his fourteenth birthday, the day he has to die...or does he?
MONSTERS OF MEN (PATRICK NESS)- The third book in the Chaos Walking trilogy takes Todd and Viola to the edge as they face an inevitable war where not everyone will survive...can their love for each other face the insurmountable odds before them, or does tragedy await?
THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL (MEG ROSOFF)- Pell Ridley leaves her family, knowing they are doomed to slavery, but as she tries to escape her choices Pell soon finds that the past always catches up with you!
WHITE CROW (MARCUS SEDGEWICK)- Two people, set apart by two centuries yet both obsessed with what comes after death, inadvertently set in motion a dark chain of events one relentlessly hot summer...
OUT OF SHADOWS (JASON WALLACE)- The civil war is over in 1980s Zimbabwe, leaving Robert Mugabe to promise hope and freedom for his land. But, as new student Robert Jacklin soon learns, all is not as it seems and his schoolmates still show him that the war to restore the old Zimbabwe rages on.
That's an exciting line-up of novels to be sure, with a particular theme of many of those books seeming to be the way in which fates are intertwined and the consequences that come with the intertwining. Keep checking On-Screen in the coming months for my full reviews of each of the books, and the announcement of the winner!