The British Book Awards’ three-hour digital prize program included Nibbie winners announcements in 28 categories.
An opening shot of the British Book Awards’ three hour streamed presentation set at the Battersea Arts Centre in London. Image: Publishing Perspectives
No Rest for the Video Editors
The British Book Awards this evening (May 13) have streamed for three hours from London their second annual digitally delivered awards program.
This year, the program’s interstitial hosting segments were set in the empty main hall of the Battersea Arts Centre in Lavender Hill, a handsome backdrop for
The Bookseller editor Philip Jones, publisher relations director Emma Lowe, and broadcaster Lauren Laverne.
Highways and Byways in Wiltshire by Edward Hutton
Cottages in Lacock village, Wiltshire. Photograph: Dave Henrys/Alamy
Years ago I came across a faded little volume in a secondhand bookshop near Salisbury: Highways and Byways in Wiltshire by Edward Hutton, published during the first world war. Inside its pages a world opened before me: little lanes, silent villages, rivers that meandered through unspoilt landscapes of willow and elm.
The books weren’t practical, but their idiosyncrasies were liberating
Hutton was also gloriously opinionated. An upper middle-class Edwardian gentleman, his writing was often snobbish. He praised Salisbury fulsomely, but disliked its ruined predecessor, Old Sarum, dismissing it as “all these dead stones”. He thought Stonehenge “sterile” and called Wilton’s breathtaking Italianate church “a horrible building”. Entire valleys displeased him.
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