NEWS

We are proud to say that Felicity Bryan has been awarded an honorary doctorate at Oxford Brookes - see the website for details and photograph: Oxford Brookes honorary doctorate

Rupture by SIMON LELIC is on the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger shortlist for 2010.

ROMA TEARNE has been given a Travelling Scholarship, one of the 2010 Society of Authors Awards, presented by Baroness James on 15th June.

The twelve longlisted titles for this year's Royal Society Prize for Science Books – the world's most prestigious award for science writing – have been announced and include We Need to Talk About Kelvin by MARCUS CHOWN.

LOB by LINDA NEWBERY is on the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2010 longlist. 

JULIE HEARN'S Rowan the Strange is one of the eight shortlisted novels for the 2010 Carnegie Medal.

The medal is presented annually to the writer of an outstanding book for children.  It is also on the shortlist for the UKLA (United Kingdom Literary Association) Children's Book Award 2010 in the 12-16 category.

Bottom's Up! by Jeanne Willis has won the Younger Readers Category of the 2010 Red House Awards.

Christianity by DIARMAID MACCULLOCH is the winner of the 2009 Longman History Today Trustees Award and the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History (for 'the best non-fiction work with historical content' of the year, of literary merit but not necessarily academic) Hessell Tiltman Prize.  It is also a New York Times bestseller.

DAVID ALMOND is the winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award.  The Award is presented by IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People, and is regarded as the world's most prestigious prize for children's literature.

LAUREN ST JOHN's The Last Leopard and SALLY GARDNER's The Silver Blade are on the children's books shortlist for the Independent Booksellers Week IBW Books of the Year Award.

Stone's Fall by IAIN PEARS is on the shortlist of the inaugural Walter Scott Prize for Historial Fiction, 2010.  The winner will be announced at the Borders Book Festival in June.  

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.

TIM BIRKHEAD'S The 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, received the Community of Christ Peace Award at the 2009 Peace Colloquy in the United States.  The theme of the colloquy was "Justice for Women, Peace for All".