EMBA Nominations 2011
The trustees for the East Midlands Book Award 2011 are pleased to announce the nominations for the prize. A shortlist of up to six books will be drawn from the nominations list and announced in due course. An award of £1000 will given to an East Midlands writer of Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, or Poetry.
EMBA trustee Jane Streeter, owner of The Bookshop in Lowdham and President of the Bookseller Association said:
The East Midlands has a rich literary seam and the East Midlands Book Award is an excellent way of highlighting the wonderfully diverse range of authors and writing in the area. As an independent bookseller it is wonderful to be involved in this award and to be able to share in the celebration of books from around the region.
The nominations are:
Abi Burlingham Grub’s Pups Piccadilly Press
Alan Baker Variations on Painting a Room Sksyill Press
Alice Grist The High Heeled Guide to Spiritual Living John Hunt Publishing
Alison Davies Help your Child Fall In Love With Books Featherstone Education
Amber Stewart Bramble the Brave Oxford University Press Children’s Books
Anne Zouroudi The Whispers of Nemesis Bloomsbury
Caryl Hart Wiffy Wilson Hachette children’s books
Chris Nickson Cold Cruel Winter Severn House Publishers
Dan Turnstall Out of Towners Five Leaves Press
Deborah Tyler-Bennett Revudeville The King Edward Press
Deborah White Wickedness Templar
Derrick Buttress Sing to Me Shoestring press
Elizabeth Baguley Ready, Steady, Ghost Oxford University Press Children’s Books
Gavin Smith War in Heaven Gollancz
Gregory Woods An Ordinary Dog Caranet Press
Jan Ormerod The Animal Bop wont stop! Oxford University Press Children’s Books
Jean Binta Breeze Third World Girl; Selected Poems Bloodaxe Books
Kerry Young Pao Bloomsbury
Laura Owen Winnie Takes The Plunge Oxford University Press Children’s Books
Laura Owen Winnie Shapes Up Oxford University Press Children’s Books
Laura Owen The Misadventures of Winnie the Witch Oxford University Press Children’s Books
Margaret Dickinson Forgive and Forget Pan Macmillan
Mark Charan Newton The Book of Transformations Tor
Mark Patterson Roman Nottinghamshire Five Leaves Press
Martin Davies The Year After Hodder & Stoughton
Maxine Linnell Closer Five Leaves Press
Neal James Threads of Deceit Pneuma Springs
Niki Valentine The Haunted Little Brown
Paula Rawsthorne The Truth About Celia Frost Usborne Publishing
Rebecca S. Buck Ghosts of Winter Bold Strokes
Spencer Coleman All the Rage Cambridge House Publishing
Stepehn Wade Rowlandson’s Human Comedy: A Biography of the Regency Artist Amberley
Stephen Booth The Devil’s Edge Little Brown
Stephen Edden The Wordsmith’s Tale Beautiful Books
Sue Moorcroft Love and Freedom Choc Lit
Sunjeev Sahota Ours are the Streets Picador
Val Derbyshire Blind Ambition Castaway Press
Vincent Caldey A Good Clean Edge Hachette children’s books
William Hussey Witchfinder 2: Gallows at Twilight Oxford University Press Children’s Books
William Hussey Witchfinder 3: The Last Nightfall Oxford University Press Children’s Books
Zoe Marriott Shadows on the Moon Walker Books ltd
