Peter Turnham's Blog: Wonderful review of The Price of Freedom - Posts Tagged "award"

Unknown to me, last December my wife Carol entered my third novel "None Stood Taller" for this prestigious Award, and informed me 'out of the blue' at the beginning of April that my book had been shortlisted for the prize! We had to attend at the announcement of the Award, and this was held at the London Book Fair on 5th April. Accordingly we went up to London for the first time since before the pandemic started, and after looking around this amazing Book Fair, we took ourselves upstairs at the appointed time to the Author HQ for the announcement of the winners in the three categories: Memoir, Children's Fiction and Adult Fiction. Unfortunately I didn't win the actual Award, but it was a great honour to be among that small number of Finalists with what is only my third novel; a great incentive to try again some time with another book!

I'm thrilled to say that "None Stood Taller", the first novel in my WW2 series, has just been shortlisted a second time this year, 2022. This time it's in the Historical Fiction section of the "Book of the Year Award" judged and awarded by the Independent Author Network, known as the IAN. It had been shortlisted in the 2022 "Selfies Award" in April, when Carol and I had to attend at the London Book Fair for the announcements. It's a great honour to see how successful my novel has been in the two awards for which I entered it.