Book Award 2022

Browse through these submissions for the Page Turner Book Award 2022. This is an international writing contest for published authors to showcase their books.

A woman's face is hidden behind a bright red butterfly, surrounded by more butterflies in a underwater aqua color.
"The Wand, The Madigan Chronicles #3" by Marieke Lexmond Lexmond
Genre: Fantasy

In the third installment of the Madigan Chronicles, the struggle to keep the elemental powers safe continues, and the family dramas deepen.

A woman's face is hidden behind a bright red butterfly, surrounded by more butterflies in a underwater aqua color.
"The Wand, The Madigan Chronciles #3" by Marieke Lexmond Lexmond
Genre: Fantasy

In the third installment of the Madigan Chronicles, the struggle to keep the elemental powers safe continues, and the family dramas deepen.

Drawing of a girl riding a horse, drawn as a continuous piece of rope.
"Forget Me Knot" by Tammie Adele
Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Faced with the mortality of her beloved mare, Beauty, and while trying to provide guidance and support to her twelve-year-old niece, Trina starts to reminisce her twenty-year friendship with Beauty.

Cover reads from top–to-bottom: The Accidental Virgin; A Memoir; Amanda Quisenberry. Minimalist aesthetic with a Tiffany blue background and pink and white writing. The three-line title is in a large, scripted font with nice curvature. The single image is a large, vivid pink rosebud centered on the lower third of the cover.
"The Accidental Virgin" by Amanda Quisenberry
Genre: Memoir

Seventeen-year-old Amanda grew up believing love conquers all. But when a brutal accident leaves her paralyzed, she struggles to reconcile her sensuality while trapped in a broken body.

Alice the Albino spider, breaks free from the gloom of her home under the floorboards and out into the old bookshop. Dust covered books line the shelves, with hidden secrets from mankinds past.
"The Word Spider Cover" by chrisHorn_Author Horn
Genre: Childrens Chapter Books

Deep below the floorboards of the old bookshop, hidden away from the rest of the world is a community of Albino Spiders. Alice a brave young spiderling ventures beyond her home, uncovering secrets from her families past.

The Word Spider Book 1, front half shows Alice appearing through the cracks in an old bookcase, the rear cover looks over her shoulder and out in to the long abandoned bookshop.
"The Word Spider" by chrisHorn_Author Horn
Genre: Childrens Chapter Books

In a world without mankind, the minibeasts rule. Alice the Albino Spider wants more from life. More than hiding away in the darkness below the floorboards of the old bookshop. Venturing outside, secrets will be uncovered and a long forgotten enemy will threaten them all.

Silhouette of a young woman walking towards a stylised African Drummer
"Slaves of Men and Gods" by WordSmith-Jacqueline Smith
Genre: Young Adult

Tribes, Shrine Priests, Ancient Traditions and the oldest profession in the world.

Images of the back view of a young girl at the top of the cover and an older man at the bottom of the cover.
"The Two Seeings" by WordSmith-Jacqueline Smith
Genre: Paranormal & Supernatural

On Morag's journey from one life to the next; she wonders what to do when somehow ‘Betray Me’ seems to be stamped on her forehead.
A painted leaf, a clay whistle, a steamy bath and that voice whispering in her ear. Who knows where will it all end or does it ever end?

The image shows an abstract representation of a time portal. The title is in Old English and means The Wanderer.
"ANGENGA" by John Broughton
Genre: Paranormal & Supernatural

When metal detectorist Gary Marshall gives his old university colleague and philologist, Rick Hughes, a reliquary pendant, he unearthed, he has no idea of what he’s unleashed.

Rick is drawn to the site in Lindsey, where a portal opens taking him back in time to when the artefact was produced.

A book cover featuring a mermaid swimming under water.
"Marijuana Mermaid" by David-Matthew Barnes
Genre: Young Adult

After getting into trouble at her high school in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Leah Cassels moves to a small seaside town in California to live with her father. Leah's efforts to leave her past behind are put to the test by new friends Monica and Sabina, two popular girls who seem to have it all.

A young woman's haggard face cast in shades of dark green light. Text across the top reads: Rise. Text across the bottom reads: Lazerin, A Crown of Lilies Book Two, Melissa Ragland.
"Lazerin (A Crown of Lilies: Book Two)" by Melissa Ragland
Genre: Fantasy

An attempted coup d'etat ends in disaster, and highborn rebel Elivya is captured by the enemy infiltrators she and her family sacrificed so much to expose. A daring rescue sees her freed, but the scars of failure run deep. Elivya must conquer her past in order to protect her homeland and her people.

Cursed Vampire (Creatures of the Otherworld)
"Cursed Vampire (Creatures of the Otherworld)" by BroganThomas Thomas
Genre: Paranormal & Supernatural

Half unicorn, half bloodsucker, all trouble. When her secret gets out, can this feisty teenager survive? If you like never-say-die heroines, fiery forbidden love, and generous splashes of snark, then you’ll adore standalone urban fantasy.

boy embracing girl in front of a blue and purple starry-night sky, title FALLING FOR THE WINGMAN and author name Shannon Stults in white font
"Falling for the Wingman" by Shannon Stults
Genre: Young Adult

Seventeen-year-old Bentley recruits arrogant next-door neighbor Cooper Bradshaw to help her land the boy of her dreams, reuniting three childhood best friends. But two of them are keeping deep, dark secrets, and soon Bentley's heart is being torn apart.

Book cover: When North Becomes South
"When North Becomes South" by Becky Bronson
Genre: Sci-Fi

How would we survive without technology and the internet? When a powerful solar flare completely disrupts life as we know it, a separated family attempts to reunite in a changed world where long-distance communication is next to impossible and modern methods of transportation no longer exist.

The cover shows Captain Heron and Felicity Rowanberg on the surface of Mars.
"Captain James Heron: First into the Fray" by Patrick G Cox
Genre: Sci-Fi

Captain James Heron is appointed to stand by his next command, the starship NECS Vanguard, while she is being built. He soon discovers that the Consortium seeks to steal the specs for the ship’s new super weapon. When they hire the Pantheon it becomes personal and Fleet Security take a hand ...

The cover image is Claude Monet's famous painting ot Japanese bridge over his lily pond at Giverny France.
"Monet & Oscar: The Essence of Light" by Joseph Byrd
Genre: Historical Fiction

A historically accurate story of the friends, family, and life of Claude Monet, the man behind his art.

An aged picture of a mother and daughter. The mother looks at the camera with a beaming smile. The younger daughter stares at her mother with a questioning look. A crack between them is filled with gold as in the Japanese art of Kintsugi.
"The Burning Light of Two Stars" by Laura S Davis S Davis
Genre: Memoir

After years of bitter estrangement, an elderly mother moves across the country to entrust her daughter with the rest of her life, bringing with her a faltering mind, a fierce need for independence, and the seeds of a second war between them. Can this volatile pair make peace before it's too late?

The cover is a composite showing Harry Heron, Ferghal O'Connor, the Captain of the Vanguard and his android secretary set against an alien landscape.
"Harry Heron: Into the Unknown" by Patrick G Cox
Genre: Sci-Fi

A freak event during a sea battle with the French navy in 1804 catapults Midshipman Harry Heron, Ferghal O’Connor and Danny Gunn four hundred years into the future. Catapulted onto the NECS Vanguard, flagship of the World Treaty Organisation Fleet, they must adapt to survive in an undreamed future