Rosanna Pike’s debut novel A LITTLE TRICKERIE has been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2025.
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction is the UK’s longest running prize for comic fiction and is designed to highlight the funniest novel of the past twelve months, which best evokes the Wodehouse spirit of witty characters and perfectly timed comic prose.
The shortlist was chosen from a record 107 submissions, published between 1st June 2024 and 31st May 2025. The winner will be announced at a reception on 1st December.
Rosanna is shortlisted alongside Sandi Toksvig’s Friends of Dorothy (Virago), Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), Last Acts by Alexander Sammartino (One), Murder Most Foul by Guy Jenkin (Legend Press), Kate Greathead’s The Book of George (Atlantic Books), Sanam Mahloudji’s The Persians (4th Estate Books), and The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade (Faber).
Judge Stephanie Merritt said: “Rosanna Pike’s debut is a glorious, Chaucerian romp written with a unique voice and a delight in bawdy and farce. I fell in love with the character of Tibb immediately, and with Pike’s take on medieval England.”