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Simon Puttock shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize
Simon Puttock's The Baby That Roared has been shortlisted for the 2012 Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 'The funniest book for
Double triumph for Simon Schama’s The Story of the Jews
Last night the Sandford St Martin Trust announced that the BBC’s The Story of the Jews scooped two top accolades at its annual broadcast awards.
Simon Glass wins Red Planet Prize 2010
Simon Glass has been selected from over 1,500 applicants to win the 2010 Red Planet Prize for his darkly comic script,
André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards
Rachel Roddy won the coveted André Simon award for food writing for her debut book, FIVE QUARTERS: RECIPES AND NOTES FROM A KITCHEN IN
Jane Thynne
Jane Thynne was born in Venezuela and educated in London and at Oxford. She joined the BBC as a production trainee, and worked as a TV director. She then moved to Fleet Street, working at The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent.
In 2001, Moazzam Begg moved his wife and children from Birmingham to Kabul to begin a new job as a school teacher. After the war in Afghanistan that year, the family decided to wait out the hostilities in neighbouring Pakistan. But in February 2002 Begg was seized by the CIA in Islamabad.
Linda Buckley-Archer
Linda Buckley-Archer is a London-based novelist, scriptwriter and journalist.
Simon Mawer's Tightrope wins the 2016 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Congratualtions to Simon Mawer on winning the 2016 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his novel Tightrope.
Adam Foulds & Simon Mawer up for the Walter Scott Prize
Adam Foulds and Simon Mawer's Booker-shortlisted novels THE QUICKENING MAZE and THE GLASS ROOM are both on the shortlist for the inaugural Walter Scott Prize, worth £25,000.