Sunday 19 September 2010

Winner of the Dolman Travel Book of the Year announced

Ian Thomson has been announced as the winner of the Dolman Travel Book of the year, in the fifth year that the award has been running. Thomson's book, The Dead Yard, won him a cheque for £2,500, presented to him at an award ceremony at the Author's Club.

Other shortlisted writers for the award this year included Along the Enchanted Way by William Blacker; A Single Swallow by Horatio Clare; Eleven Minutes Late by Matthew Engel; Lost and Found in Russia by Susan Richards; Out of Steppe by Daniel Metcalfe; and Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico by Hugh Thomson.

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