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YoungMinds Book Award 2005

The winner of the YoungMinds Book Award 2005 is "Thirty years in a turtleneck sweater" by Nick Warren. The award ceremony was held on 10th November in central London.


Shortlist

  • Sleeping arrangements - Laura Shaine Cunningham
  • My life in orange - Tim Guest
  • Borrowed body - Valerie Mason-John
  • This is the country - William Wall
  • Thirty years in a turtleneck sweater - Nick Warren
  • Hide and seek - Clare Sambrook

Judges

  • Terry Philpot - journalist and editorial consultant for YoungMinds Magazine
  • Julie Myerson - novelist
  • Dame Denise Platt - Chair of the Commission for Social Care Inspection
  • Sir Michael Rutter - Research professor at the Institute of Psychiatry
  • Yvonne Roberts - novelist and journalist

For more information on the YoungMinds Book Award please contact bookaward@youngminds.org.uk