“I’ve Got The Sauce, If You’ve Got The Pasta” by Susan Morritt “Manik” by Gabrielle Rupert “The Lion” by Judy Upton Bridget Lawless established the prize in 2018 in reaction to the number of films that used rape as a plot device in the 2017 BAFTA award nominees, and was inspired by the Time’s Up and Me Too movements, to encourage alternatives to violence-against-women tropes. The award website says the award is for “a novel in the thriller genre in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered.” The Staunch Book Prize is open to traditionally published, self-published and not-yet-published works