April 2013

Press Release | April 2013     

The People’s Book Prize announce important strategic partnership   

The People’s Book Prize and BOOKS etc. are delighted to announce a new partnership. All books showcased in The People’s Book Prize www.peoplesbookprize.com, (the UK's democratic literary prize voted exclusively by the public) will be available for purchase through BOOKS etc. www.booksetc.co.uk   Importantly, the partnership broadens the discoverability and the reach of The People’s Book Prize. As the exclusive online sales partner, BOOKS etc. will pass special discounts to The People’s Book Prize readers and voters in all three categories:  Fiction, Non-fiction and Children’s, who will continue, as they do now, to vote, comment and purchase the entries showcased quarterly in each of The People's Book Prize collections.
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Important dates:
Now to 20 May 2013:   The Spring 2013 collection can be voted for

21 May to 29 May:   Voting for finalists – the public choose the Winners

29 May 2013:   The People’s Book Prize Prestigious 4th Award Ceremony 2012/2013:  Winners  of The People’s Book Prize 2012/13 in the 3 categories:  Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children’s.  The Beryl Bainbridge Award for First Time Author and TPBP Best Achievement Award  are announced

Venue:   The exclusive Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers,  Ave Maria Lane, London EC4M 7DD www.stationers.org   7 pm. black tie dinner

To order your tickets please click here   

1 June 2013:   The beginning of The People’s Book Prize 5th year  starts on 1 June 2013 with the Summer 2013 collection that can be voted for from 1 June to 31 August 2013.

Other News:   Eradicating illiteracy: Pilot scheme for prison libraries:  a new step to open new doors

The charity Read & Grow has joined forces with The People’s Book Prize to donate the unique 121 reading tool Yes We Can Read, to a number of prison libraries.

The ease of delivery of Yes We Can Read and its ‘each one teach one’ philosophy enables anyone who can read fluently to teach a non or poor reader within 6 months or less.  No training is required.

Using the ethos ‘for the prisoner by the prisoner’ it is hoped that inmates will pick up Yes We Can Read in the prison libraries and teach fellow inmates to read. At present over half the prison population has poor or no reading skills. Prisons benefiting from this pilot scheme are HMP Holloway, Ford, Aberdeen, Maghaberry, Brixton, Parkhurst, Kingston, Dorchester and Aylesbury YOP.

The public voted for YES WE CAN READ written by Libby Coleman and Nick Ainley.  By awarding it TPBP Special Achievement Prize, The People’s Book Prize recognised the importance of this publication and identified it as the perfect tool to eradicate illiteracy – the intellectual cancer – and it is now part of its constitution

January 2013

The People's Book Prize is the democratic Book Prize voted exclusively by the public aimed at finding, supporting and promoting new and undiscovered works.  It is the public who choose Britain's Next Bestsellers.  

Supported by Patron Frederick Forsyth CBE the Award consists of prizes in three genres – fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature. Leading up to the ceremony titles are showcased on www.peoplesbookprize.com and the books which receive the most votes go forward as finalists with three authors emerging as winners. In addition, The Beryl Bainbridge Award for First Time Author is given in honour of TPBP founding patron and an award for Best Achievement for outstanding content to the author whose writing has led, or could lead to benefitting the community.