Lord Browne to lead Pushkin House Russian Book Prize judges

Lord Browne of Madingley, chairman of the Tate Galleries and a former chief executive of BP, will lead the judging panel for Pushkin House’s 2015 Russian Book Prize. Now in its third year, the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, run in association with Waterstones, awards £5,000 to the best non-fiction writing on Russia. The Prize was created to encourage public understanding and intelligent debate about the Russian-speaking world. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Sheikh Zayed Book Prize’s Ali Bin Tamim: ‘Timeless Globalized Values’

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The Sheikh Zayed Book Prize’s Ali Bin Tamim: ‘Timeless Globalized Values’

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Caroline Criado Perez's gender data gap 'exposé' takes £25k Royal Society Science Book Prize

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#DisabledandCute is more than a hashtag. Keah Brown’s book shows us why.

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