Glancing at the website for Stanfords, whose London shop I’m planning to pop into this week, I see that, though I covered the short list, I completely missed the announcement of the winners of the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. (Has my email fallen off the Stanfords press list?)
The travel book of the year was Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China; and the Viking award for fiction with a sense of place went to Elif Shafak for There are Rivers in the Sky. There’s a brief extract from Black Ghosts on Brittle Paper, an online magazine dedicated to African literature.