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World Book Night 2015

28 April 2015 • News

On 23 April 2015, volunteers and organisations across the UK shared their love of reading in their communities for World Book Night, our annual celebration of the written word. See how the event unfolded in our Storify.

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World Book Night 2015

23 April 2015 • News

Join thousands of book lovers, authors, libraries, bookshops, prisons, hospitals and schools in communities throughout the UK to celebrate reading and the written word.

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Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015

22 April 2015 • News

Farmer and writer John Lewis-Stempel was tonight awarded the Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015 for Meadowland: the Private Life of an English Field, his lyrical account of a year in the life of a farmland meadow. The Thwaites Wainwright Prize celebrates the best in UK nature and travel writing.

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