NEWS
Lucy Worsley is one of fifty Women to Watch in the Arts, a list of directors, producers and curators from across the UK voted by the panel of the Cultural Leadership Programme. Cultural Leadership Programme Women to Watch
Meg Rosoff's latest novel THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL has been awarded an Alex Award, for books for adults with a special appeal to young adults, by the American Library Association.
Congratulations to Claire Bertschinger, who has been made a Dame of the British Empire in the New Years Honours list and to Miriam Stoppard, who has been awarded an OBE.
CHRISTIANITY by Diarmaid MacCulloch is the winner of the 2009 Longman History Today Trustees Award and has been shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History (for 'the best non-fiction work with historical content' of the year, of literary merit but not necessarily academic) Hessell Tiltman Prize
Tim Birkhead's WISDOM OF BIRDS has won the Best Bird Book of the Year award from the British Trust for Ornithology & British Birds.
Halima Bashir, Sudanese doctor and author of TEARS OF THE DESERT, will receive the Community of Christ Peace Award at the 2009 Peace Colloquy in the United States. The theme of this year's colloquy is "Justice for Women, Peace for All".
MARY TUDOR: ENGLAND'S FIRST QUEEN, Anna Whitelock's first book, was one of the six shortlisted titles for the Biographer's Club 2009 Best First Biography Prize.
We are delighted to say that Mary Berry has been given a much-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award by the Guild of Food Writers. The Guild described Mary as one of their "most renowned members". Guild of Food Writers Awards
John Dickie's DELIZIA is shortlisted for another prestiguous food-related award, the French Prix Délice in correlation with the Festival de la Littérature gourmande at the Grande Epicerie of the renowned Bon Marché.
Sir Lawrence Freedman, author of A CHOICE OF ENEMIES, is the recipient of this year's Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature. The award is for a book by a living author who makes a notable and original contribution to the study of international and national security and defence. Sir Lawrence will deliver a lecture to a distinguished audience at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) in Whitehall. RUSI Duke of Westminster Medal
DOLPHIN SONG by Lauren St. John has won the 2009 KIND Children's Book Award in the Chapter Book category. Sponsored by the Humane Society Youth, the KIND Children’s Book Award recognizes an exceptional children's book with a humane focus on animals or the environment and also names a list of honor books. http://www.humanesocietyyouth.org/awards/best_books.asp
BEFORE I DIE by Jenny Downham has won the Leeds Book Award 14-16 category and is third in a prestigious Swedish prize for best books for children and young adults in the 14-19 year-old category, chosen by readers.
Karen Armstrong has received the Doctor Leopald Lucas Prize from the University of Tuebingen. T he prize ‘annually acknowledges outstanding achievements in the fields of theology, the history of ideas, history and philosophy. In particular the prize honours individuals who have contributed significantly to the advancement of relations between individuals and peoples, and, through their publications, rendered outstanding services to the spreading of the concept of tolerance’.
Stephen Law's book THE PHILOSOPHY GYM has won the Mindelheim Philosophie Preis in Germany. The prize goes to a book which supports and encourages young people in searching and asking questions.