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The Wishing Shelf Book Award highly recommends: The Colour of Memory by Christopher Bowden
‘A compelling novel about art, creativity, and the human heart.” Philip Hook
Lucy Potter is a successful artist but she has done no new work in months. She fears she has lost the creative spark that sustained her and enabled her to express her view of the world. Will she ever regain it?
The chance discovery of an old notebook while on a walk in the woods provides a welcome distraction, raising questions she cannot answer. Who wrote it, why is it in code, what secrets does it hide? And why does it include the address of a house that does not exist?
Partial decoding of the notebook, surely written many years ago, reveals troubling incidents in the life of an unnamed girl. Deeply affected by the girl’s plight, Lucy feels impelled to find out who she is or was and what happened to her. Could she still be alive?
Lucy’s search for answers has an outcome she could never have anticipated. But will the re-appearance in Lucy’s life of fellow artist Rex Monday help or hinder her attempts to re-establish her position in the art world – and provide the stability she needs in her personal life?
As the story unfolds, we are drawn into the world as seen through Lucy’s eyes. A world of colour and light, of shape and pattern and texture, inviting us to see it that way too.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Colour-Memor...

Bertram's Emporium of Things People Say

In the madness of contemporary culture wars, the Emporium serves no ideology. It serves up iconoclasm. From hillbilly erotic philosophy to a cancel rag that declares the Sun triggering, from The Pronoun Simulator to The Abortion Avatar, from neocon unicorn princess to Antifa blackshirt, no extreme of the ideological spectrum is too self-absurd to spare. On one end, the far-right’s demands for freedom from sweeping government powers evaporate the moment their own sacred cows of religious education and fetuses are at stake. On the other, militant gender identity ideology undermines the rights of the very people it patronizingly claims to protect, with dangerous implications for women, trans people, and detransitioners. On the whole, the absurdity of those ideologies is on plain display to those residing between the extremes who long for a more reasoned approach. Bertram’s Emporium delivers one in the guise of humorist social commentary vignettes. It also delivers purely comedic pieces at a time when everybody can use a laugh.
*Finalist of The Wishing Shelf Book Awards and Semi-Finalist of the Chanticleer International Book Awards in Humor and Satire
https://www.arielpeckel.com/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
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THE WISHING SHELF BOOK AWARDS 2017
WINNERS
www.thewsa.co.uk/winners2017
Below is a list of the 2017 WINNERS in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards. The adult books were read and judged by 2 Reading Groups, 1 in London and 1 in Stockholm; the children’s books by 8 UK primary and secondary schools. The books were marked according to EDITING, THEME, STYLE, COVER and, in the case of many of the children’s books, ILLUSTRATIONS.
If you happen to be looking for a good read, the readers at The Wishing Shelf Awards thoroughly recommend the following:


Category 1 Pre-School Picture Books
GOLD
Zak and Jen’s Astronomical Adventures, Tinsel Town, Natalie Page, Chris Rivers Nuttall
SILVER
Space Cop Zack, GARG's Secret Mission, Don M Winn
Crazy Crab, Mark C, Evans
BRONZE
Goodnight Wishes! Leea Baltes
Eli’s Magic Moment, Kevin Poplawski
An Omelet For Evan, Sheri Wall

Category 2 Books for 6 – 8 Year Olds
GOLD
Ship Rats, Rhian Waller
SILVER
The Cowboy who was Scared of Horses, Michelle Path
Herakles: Book 5- Early Myths: Kids Books on Greek Myth (Volume 5), Dr. Simon Spence and Colm Lawton
BRONZE
Hollie and Figgs Magical Adventures, Annette Sharman
The Railway Mice of Countesthorpe, Sharon E Laker
Finnigan and the Lost Circus Wagon, Mary T. Wagner


Category 3 Books for 9 – 12 Year Olds
GOLD
Time Shifters: Into the Past, Kate Frost
SILVER
Jodie and the Book of the Rose, Julie Hodgson
Hemlock Jones & The Angel of Death, Justin Carroll
BRONZE
The Trouble with School! Stephanie Awbery
Breaking Magic, Alex C. Vick
Pandora’s Lunch Box, Richard Clark


Category 4 Books for Teenagers
GOLD
Huntress, Life After, (Book 1), Julie Hall
SILVER
Playing by Heart, Carmela Martino
The Oldest Soul - Animus: Volume 1 (The Oldest Soul Trilogy), Tiffany FitzHenry
BRONZE
Ignite, Tracy Lawson
Apocalypse: Diary of a Survivor 2, Matt J. Pike
Dreadmarrow Thief (The Conjurer Fellstone Book 1), Marjory Kaptanoglu

Category 5 Books for Adults (fiction)
GOLD
Illegal: a true story of love, revolution and crossing borders, John Dennehy
Brought To Our Senses, Kathleen H. Wheeler
The One Apart: A Novel, Justine Avery
SILVER
Whirligig, Richard Buxton
Night Eyes, Claire Stibbe
The After War, Brandon Zenner
BRONZE
Whiskey Kills, Lolli Powell
None of Us the Same, Jeffrey K. Walker
Alignment, Tracy Chollet

Category 6 Books for Adults (non-fiction)
GOLD
Henry: A Polish Swimmer’s True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America, Katrina Shawver
Tilting: A Memoir, Nicole Harkin
SILVER
Liberty Lady: A True Story of Love and Espionage in WWII Sweden, Pat DiGeorge
The Thinking Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer: Take Charge of Your Recovery and Remission, Janet Maker
BRONZE
The MECE Muse, Christie Lindor
I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships, Michael S Sorensen
Wiggaz With Attitude: My Life as a Failed White Rapper, Andrew Emery

Hi,

The Wishing Shelf Book Award is delighted to announced the FINALISTS of the 2015 awards. The children's books were read and judged by children in 8 UK primary and secondary schools, the adult books by 2 Reading Groups, 1 in London and 1 in Stockholm. The books were marked according to EDITING, THEME, STYLE, COVER and, in the case of many of the children's books, ILLUSTRATIONS.

The WINNERS will be announced on April 1st, 2016.

If you happen to be looking for a good read, the readers at The Wishing Shelf Awards thoroughly recommend the following: http://www.thewsa.co.uk/finalists2015/

Cheers,

Edward

The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards
thewsa.co.uk
The Wishing Shelf Book Awards is growing fast. Check it out at www.thewsa.co.uk. It's a new breed of book awards run very differently from any other book awards on or off the web. The entry fee is very, VERY low and everybody 'EVERYBODY!' who enters gets feedback from the judging, a catchy quote and reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. But the best bit is the judging. The children's book are read and judged by children in 7 schools in the UK; the adult books by readers in two established Reading Groups, 1 in Stockholm and 1 in London. Every book entered is read by a minimum of 15 readers and you will get all the feedback.

If you're interested, please do visit the webpage