The Dolman Travel Book Award, Britain’s only prize for narrative travel books, is rebranded today and its value doubled to £5,000.

From now on it will be known as the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. It will be the centre piece of a new scheme run by Stanfords bookshop, the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, which will start this year with a prize for an “outstanding contribution to travel writing” and be developed to honour other forms of travel writing in print and online. For more details, see my piece for Telegraph Travel.