Yesterday one of my favourite books prizes announced their shortlists for their various prizes and her they all are:
Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year
Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
Minarets in the Mountains by Tharik Hussain
Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles
The Amur River by Colin Thubron
Wars of the Interior by Joseph Zarate
Food and Drink Travel Book of the Year
Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino
From Gujarat with Love: 100 Authentic Indian Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes by Vina Patel
How Wild Things Are: Cooking, Fishing and Hunting at the Bottom of the World by Analiese Gregory
Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from the Eastern Mediterranean by Yasmin Khan
Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria by Anas Atassi
Photographic Travel Book of the Year
Epic Train Journeys by Monisha Rajesh
Let’s Get Lost by Finn Beales
Only Us by Stuart Dunn
Southern Light by Dave Brosha
The Travel Photographer’s Way by Nori Jemil
Illustrated Travel Book of the Year
The Atlas of Unusual Languages by Zoran Niikolic
Antarctic Atlas by Peter Fretwell
Atlas of Imagined Places by Matt Brown
Black Girls Take World by Georgina Lawton
India: The Passenger
Wild Waters by Susanne Masters
Fiction with a Sense of Place
Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani
The High House by Jessie Greengrass
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Children’s Travel Book of the Year
Bandoola by William Grill
Journey to the Last River by Teddy Keen
Lionheart Girl by Yada Badoe
Spin to Survive Frozen Mountain by Emily Hawkins
Wild Child by Dara McAnulty
The Shark Caller by Zillah Bethell
Bradt Travel Guides New Travel Writer of the Year
“Waiting for Wilma” by Jane Adams
“Ghar Ghosts” by Ruth Cox
“The Quiet of Switzerland” by Neasa Murphy
I have some of them already, but my TBR has now got much much longer!
I’m going to resist until I read your reviews, I will not look them up, I will not look them up …
You know you want to…