Forbes wins £50k Warwick Prize for Writing

Publication Date: Wed, 23/03/2011 - 07:50 Writer, journalist and editor Peter Forbes' exploration of mimicry and camouflage in nature, art and warfare has been awarded the £50,000 Warwick Prize for Writing. His Dazzled and Deceived (Yale University Press) was described by chair of judges Michael Rosen as a "book of massive surprises" at a ceremony in London yesterday evening [22nd March]. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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