Winners 2012/2013 -
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Interpreters by Sue Eckstein Published by Myriad
Editions When Julia Rosenthal returns to her suburban childhood home, the unspoken tensions of family life come flooding back. In a different place and time, another woman struggles to tell the story of her early years in wartime Germany, gradually revealing the secrets she has carried through the century, until past and present collide. |
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One Woman's War by Eileen Younghusband
Published by Candy Jar Books A vivid first-hand account giving a unique and intimate picture of the Filter rooms and Bomber Command during World War Two, the operations of which were considered too secret to speak of for thirty years. |
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Ante’s Inferno by Griselda Heppel Published by
Troubador Publishing Ltd An accident on a balcony sends 12 year-old Ante on a perilous journey through the Underworld, accompanied by her sworn enemy, Florence, and Gil, a boy who died 100 years before. Battling with monsters is terrifying; but Ante’s growing fear is worse. Will any of them return? If so – who? |
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TPBP Beryl Bainbridge Award for a First Time Author |
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A Guide To Becoming Distinctly Average by Amy
Elliott-Smith Published by Crooked Cat Publishing
Depression is a bitch. Spending your life with depression, working with bitches is the worst of the worst. A Guide to Becoming Distinctly Average is a laugh-out-loud, dark comedy, which delves into the depths of a thirty-something dog groomer’s mind as she struggles to cope with life, depression and dogs who wee up her sofa. Ultimately, the question she must ask is... Can I carry on? |
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TPBP Best Achievement Prize |
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Email from the Soul By William Ayot Published by
PS Avalon Ayot’s poetry has helped leaders from around the world to pause, reflect and re-think, to re-engage with their imaginations and refresh themselves. This collection reminds us that timeless challenges can still find contemporary champions, and old virtues can find new venues, even in the jargon-polluted corporate world. |
Finalists 2012/2013 -
Finalists for Spring 2013 (March,
April May)
Fiction:
A Guide To Becoming Distinctly Average
by Amy Elliott-Smith, published by Crooked Cat Publishing
E-Mail From The Soul
by William Ayot,
published by PS Avalon
Whittington Manor
by Claire Louise Voet, published by Pneuma
Springs Publishing
Non-Fiction:
Elite! by Floyd
Woodrow and Simon Acland, published by Elliot &
Thompson
The Quirky Medium
byAlison Wynne-Ryder, published by Local
Legend
The Traumatised Society
by Fred Harrison
published by Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd
Children's:
The Little Raindrop
by Jaonna Gray
published by Top That! Publishing
Jimmy Threepwood and the Veil of Darkness
by Rich Pitman
published by Ghostly Publishing
Grandma Bendy
by Izy Penguin,
published by Maverick Arts Publishing Ltd
Finalists for Winter 2012 (December, January, February)
Fiction:
Painting By Numbers
by Tom Gillespie, published by Crooked Cat Publishing
The Day of the Swans
by Linda M James, published by Indigo Dreams Publishing
A Time for Silence
by Thorne Moore, published by Honno Press
Non-Fiction:
The Carbon Cycle
by Kate Rawles, published by Two Ravens Press Ltd
The Little Book of Prison
by Frankie Owens, published by Waterside Press
Drunk Chickens and Burnt Macaroni
by Mary Smith, published by Indigo Dreams Publishing
Travels with my Harp
by Mary O'Hara, published by Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd
For the first time 2
titles tied with equal votes each. Therefore
they have both become finalists
Children's:
Tamara Small and the Monsters' Ball
by Giles Paley-Phillips, published by Maverick Arts Publishing Ltd
Ante's Inferno
by Griselda Heppel, published by
Troubador
Publishing
The Silly Satsuma
by Allan Plenderleith, published by Ravette Publishing Ltd
Finalists for
Autumn 2012
(September, October, November 2012)
Fiction:
Interpreters by Sue Eckstein published by Myriad
Editions
Kangazang by
Terry Cooper published by Candy Jar Books
Cutting In by
Felicity Fair Thompson published Wight Diamond Press
Non Fiction:
One Woman's War by Eileen Younghusband
published by Candy Jar Books
Be The Worst You Can Be by
Charles Saatchi published by Booth-Clibborn Editions
A Little Book Of Pleasures by William Wood
published by Sunpenny Publishing Group
Children:
Goose Goes to the Zoo by Laura Wall
published by Award Publications Ltd
Dead Game by Claire Kinton published by New Age
Publishers
If Horses Were Wishes
by Elizabeth Sellers published by
Sunberry Publishing
Finalists for Summer 2012
(June, July, August 2012)
Fiction:
The Incomers
by Moira McPartlin
published by Fledgling Press Ltd
Not all Stars Sparkle by
Carys Jones published by Pegasus Elliot
Mackenzie
Within the Glade by Patrick
Moore published by SMH Books
Non Fiction:
The Psychic Biker meets The Extreme Ghost Hunter
by Paul Green & Stephen Lambert
published by Cauliay Publishing
Swatchway Magic by Paul Antrobus, Charles
Scooners published by Delancey Press
Butterflies and Sweaty Palms by Judy Apps
published by Crown House Publishing Limited
Children's:
Rabbityness by Jo Empson published
by Child's Play International
The Silent Owl by Clemency Pearce published by
Top That! Publishing
Firestorm Rising by John Clewarth published by
Mauve Square Publishing