Tackling lockdown restrictions with ‘vigour, creativity and innovation’ — 48 honoured on regional and country shortlists for Independent Bookshop of the Year Award
The British Book Awards have revealed the regional and country shortlists for the 2021 Independent Bookshop of the Year Award, with this year seeing 48 bookshops from nine regional/country categories competing to be named the country’s best indie retailer for books.
Poet Jay Bernard wins Sunday Times/ University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award for ground-breaking collection exploring New Cross Fire of 1981
Poet Jay Bernard has been named winner of the 2020 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award for their collection Surge, a fearless exploration of the 1981 New Cross Fire, in which thirteen young black people were killed.
