The People's Book Prize (UK)

The People's Book Prize is an annual UK literary award, first awarded in July 2010. There is no panel of judges. Titles are nominated by publishers, and are voted for by the public.

The prize is administered by Tatiana Wilson, an independent publisher, for The People's Book Prize Limited. One of its roles is to recognize the work of first-time authors.

Patron

Dame Beryl Bainbridge DBE was the prize's founding patron. Following her death in July 2010, she was succeeded as patron by Frederick Forsyth CBE.

At the launch of the prize at the 2009 London Book Fair, Bainbridge said: "Something like this, this idea – which is absolutely amazing – once it takes off, it will be of enormous importance to writers. I look forward to the time when we mention this particular prize as the greatest – and look back – and remember I was at the meeting at the London Book Fair and think where it has gone! So I wish it tremendously good luck."

Winners

2009/2010

Category Author Title
Fiction Lesley Thomson A Kind of Vanishing
Non-Fiction Brett Alegre-Wood The 3+1 Plan
Children David Walliams Mr Stink
The Beryl Bainbridge Award for a First Time Author Adam Perrott Eerie Deirdre Darkly

2010/2011

Category Author Title
Fiction Sara Allerton Making Shore
Non-Fiction Polly Higgins Eradicating Ecocide
Children Henry Fisher When I Dream of ABC
TPBP Beryl Bainbridge Award for First Time Author Morag Ramsay Alex McLean Time Traveller
TPBP Special Achievement Award Libby Coleman and Nick Ainley Yes We Can Read

2011/2012

Category Author Title
Fiction Valerie Thornhill In Restoration
Non-Fiction Johan Bakker Behind the Rainbow
Children Giles Paley-Phillips The Fearsome Beastie
TPBP Beryl Bainbridge Award for a First Time Author Daphne Fong Revenge of the Thirteen
TPBP Special Achievement Award David Cohen Calling London

2012/2013

Category Author Title
Fiction Sue Ecktein Interpreters
Non Fiction Eileen Younghusband One Woman's War
Children Griselda Heppel Ante's Inferno
TPBP Beryl Bainbridge Award for First Time Author Amy Elliott-Smith A Guide to Becoming Distinctly Average
TPBP Special Achievement Award William Ayot Emails from the Soul

2013/2014

Category Author Title
Fiction RJJ Hall Theatres of War
Non Fiction Danny Bent You've Gone Too Far This Time Sir
Children Billy Bob Buttons I Think I Murdered Miss
TPBP Beryl Bainbridge Award for First Time Author Margaret Skea Turn of the Tide
TPBP Special Achievement Award Helen J. Bate Proverbs and Sayings in Pictures

References

    http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/book.php?id=179

    External links