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James Patterson’s Young Bookseller Special Achievement Award winners announced
11/07/2019
Twenty winners of James Patterson’s Young Bookseller Special Achievement Award receive £500 prize
The twenty winners of
James Patterson’s Young Bookseller Special Achievement Award
have been announced and will receive a prize of £500 each. Of all the candidates nominated, the winners were carefully selected for their outstanding work.
Bestselling author and bookshop devotee, James Patterson, announced the award in March this year to recognise the outstanding contribution of young booksellers. James Patterson is committed to
bringing attention
to bookshops, and he is especially concerned with encouraging young people into the industry to continue to inspire lifelong reading.
The award commends booksellers aged 25 and under who have worked in a bookshop for a minimum of 12 months. Candidates were nominated by their managers or colleagues from high street bookshops across Britain and Ireland.
Tom McKnight, one of the recipients of the award from The Haslemere Bookshop, says
“This award means a massive amount to me as it offers a hopeful future for bookshops all over the UK and Ireland. I know reading will continue to inspire young minds as it always has thanks to awards like this.”
This award is the latest of James Patterson’s numerous financial donations to support bookshops. In the past five years, Patterson has donated £500,000 to independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland to encourage children to read. This funded projects ranging from refurbishment and expansion of children’s sections to organising a bedtime reading project. And in 2013, Patterson pledged $1million to US bookshops which funded everything from customising a school bus as a mobile bookshop to providing free books for underprivileged children.
James Patterson commented:
“I am delighted for the twenty winners who were chosen for their talent and extraordinary contribution to the bookselling industry. The passion and energy of all the young booksellers that were nominated has been overwhelming.”
Nic Bottomley, President of The Booksellers Association, says:
“The BA is in the business of celebrating and improving bookselling, and I can think of no better way to do both those things than to award outstanding young booksellers in this way. James Patterson’s generosity and vision in deciding to reward our rising young stars in the bookselling landscape is a wonderful way for us to celebrate our emerging leaders and watch their careers develop.”
The Winners
Amy Vale – Book-ish, Crickhowell, Powys
Callum Churchill – Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath
Callum McAllister – Foyles, Bristol
Charlotte Elizabeth – Blackwell’s Bookshops, Reading
Emily Smith – Waterstones, Crewe
Helen Mair – The Alligator’s Mouth, Richmond, Surrey
Imogen Hargreaves – Mostly Books, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Inga Maciulyte – Foyles Waterloo Station, London
Jacob Tunks – Kett’s Books, Wymondham, Norfolk
James Firth – The Stripey Badger, Skipton, North Yorkshire
Meg Prince – The Ironbridge Bookshop, Telford, Shropshire
Mia Colleran – Dubray Books, Dublin
Miriam Mathie – The GLO Bookshop, Motherwell, North Lanarkshire
Olivia Farmery – Magic Alley, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Olivia Kekewich – The Edinburgh Bookshop, Edinburgh
Phoebe Edwards – Little Ripon Bookshop, North Yorkshire
Saoirse Behan – Woodbine Books, Kilcullen, County Kildare
Sarah Gillett – East Grinstead Bookshop, West Sussex
Taylor McDonald – Bookpoint, Dunoon, Argyll
Tom McKnight – The Haslemere Bookshop, Haslemere, Surrey
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