Awards – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

The Spirit of Self-Help

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

Chosen for Spring 2017 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction When Dominic Sandbrook quoted Samuel Smiles extensively in his TV series on nineteenth-century work and leisure; when Ian Hislop flourished a copy of Smiles’s Self-Help (“the book that launched the genre”) in his programme on ‘Workers or Shirkers?’; when Andy Burnham reflected publicly on “lack of aspiration” as a…

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Pamela Hansford Johnson

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

Finalist in 2014-15 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE for Non-Fiction Pamela Hansford Johnson’s first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, published in 1935 when she was 22 and had no literary contacts to ease her path, was a succès de scandale. On the publication of her second, John Brophy wrote in Time and Tide: ‘I have no doubt at all that Miss Hansford Johnson is already one of the most gifted and interesting of…

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Mithras to Mormon

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:02 +0000

Chosen for Winter 2018 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction When the Romans settled in Britain in 43 CE they could hardly have imagined that the small agricultural settlement of Londinium on the Thames would eventually become one of the biggest cities in the world. Its people worshipped then in small buildings like the Mithraeum, but over the next two thousand years cathedrals…

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The Hidden Girl

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:55 +0000

Finalist in the PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE SUMMER COLLECTION 2019 for Non-fiction and First Time Author. This book charts the author’s long journey of healing from the trauma caused by having to go into hiding as a child and having to deny that she was Jewish. It is not intended as an autobiography or a clinical paper on the healing process but as an account of a very personal inner journey.

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