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This year's shortlisted books feature stories based on harrowing real-life events, such as Fukushima and the Blitz
The UK’s most prestigious children’s books prize and its sister award for illustration the Kate Greenaway medal highlight books that can help young readers
THE manager of The Grove Bookshop in Ilkley, Mike Sansbury, was recently approached by publishers Simon & Schuster to be champions of the Jhalak Prize, which is presented annually for the best fiction and poetry by a Writer of Colour. He was given sets of the Adult and Children’s longlists and invited to donate them to a local school and library. The prize has been going for five years and previous winners include Guy Gunaratne, Renni Eddo-Lodge and Jacob Ross. Mike said: “We chose as our recipients Ilkley Library and Bradford Grammar School. On Tuesday I went to BGS to present two sets...
Book lovers have spoken and the nominations are in for the inaugural Caribbean Readers’ Awards, hosted by Rebel Women Lit. Launched on December 1, 2020, phase one of the awards saw readers putting forward their favourite Caribbean books published between November 2019 and November 2020. Now, with the shortlists revealed, the voting phase of the awards has commenced and everyone is encouraged to vote for their top picks in each category. Voting ends on December 31, 2020, and the winners will be announced at the online awards ceremony on January 3, 2021. “It’s been so heartening to see th...