May 2025
A multiplicity of awards including Edgar, Pulitzer, British Book, Romantic Novel Association and James Tait Black for books, BAFTA for TV, ARIAS for radio, Ivor Novello for music and Cannes for film
Here are the top arts awards and bestsellers of last month, almost hot off the press. Especially look out for the Palm Dog Award at Cannes…
2025 EDGAR AWARDS
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards or Edgars were presented by The Mystery Writers of America on 1 May at the Marriott Marquis Times Square hotel in New York
Running since: 1954
Eligibility: books, short stories and TV shows published in the mystery, crime, suspense and intrigue fields in America the previous year; the first novel prize is only for Americans, but the rest are open to any nationality
Judging: Judging panels of Mystery Writers of America members are set up for each category, who determine the nominees—approximately five per category—and the winners
Categories: Nine main Edgar Awards, four sponsored awards for specific categories such as short story by a US author, plus some industry special recognition awards
Links: Edgar Awards website; Wikipedia Edgars Best Novel Awards
Selected Results
Best Novel: The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell, a British author. This is her second novel and both feature the same detective, this time working a current and a cold case simultaneously, which I suspect will merge.
Best Paperback Original: The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle, a 57-year-old US thriller writer with seven novels under her belt. It follows a wife investigating the murder of her husband, who wasn’t all he seemed.
Best Short Story: Eat My Moose by Erika Krouse, published in Conjunctions magazine—read the start of the story at the link and purchase the magazine to read the rest and a bunch of other stories (Conjunctions publishes stories that are “innovative, culturally transformative, and ahead of its time”.)
Best Episode in a TV Series: Monsieur Spade, episode one, written by Tom Fontana & Scott Frank. This is a mini-series with six episodes, starring Clive Owen as Dashiell Hammett's fictional detective Sam Spade (who appeared in The Maltese Falcon and four short stories), who has retired to the South of France and gets enmeshed in a murder mystery involving nuns.
2025 PULITZER PRIZES
The Pulitzer Prizes for achievement in journalism, literature and musical composition in the US were announced on 6 May on the Pulitzer website and on YouTube
Running since: 1917
Eligibility: For journalism, any nationality is eligible as long as the work is published by US media; for the books, drama and music prizes, these either have to be by US citizens or (new from this year) permanent residents of the US
Judging: Administered by Columbia University (in New York) following instructions in the will of the publisher Joseph Pulitzer; a 19-member Pulitzer Prize Board votes on each award after juries that the board appoints nominate three works in each category
Categories: There are fifteen prizes for journalism and eight categories in books, drama and music (the latter are the subject of this post, particularly the Prize for Fiction)
Links: Pulitzer website; Pulitzer website, all winners by year; Wikipedia, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners
Selected Results
Fiction: James by Percival Everett, a 68-year-old American author of 24 novels plus works in various other formats, including poetry collections and short stories. He’s twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Trees in 2022 and James, last year) and won the Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with The Trees in 2022. James is a retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of Jim, the slave who ran away with Huck Finn—looks great from the Amazon sample and a fascinating perspective if you read Huck Finn as a kid.
Drama: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, this is about the Soviet dissident movement from the 1960s onward.
Music: Sky Islands, by Susie Ibarra, a 54-year-old American composer and percussionist. This was inspired by southern Filipino gong ensembles and the rainforest ecosystems of Luzon, an island in the Philippines—check out highlights on the YouTube link given.
Others: Descriptions of all winners of the journalism and books, drama and music prizes are at Pulitzer site, 2025 winners.
2025 BAFTA TV
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) TV Awards were presented at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 11 May and broadcast live on BBC One
Running since: 1955
Eligibility: For British TV programmes and performances from the previous year
Judging: Nominations are voted for by BAFTA Academy members, creating a shortlist of four (more or less) for each category, the winners of which are decided by juries of nine Academy members
Categories: 27
Links: BAFTA TV website; Wikipedia BAFTA TV, including links to historic winners in various categories such as Best Drama Series, Best Mini-Series and Best Scripted Comedy
Selected Results
Best Drama Series: Blue Lights (BBC One, second series), a police procedural drama set in Belfast. The first and second series aired in 2023 and 2024 respectively, and each had six sixty-minute episodes. Third and fourth seasons have been commissioned.
Best Scripted Comedy: Alma's Not Normal (BBC Two, second series), written by and starring Sophie Willan and inspired by her experience of the care system. Quoting from Wikipedia, the series “follows Alma, from Bolton, as she tries to give her life meaning and the fabulous outcome she has always dreamed of, while coping with the strained relationships of her family that saw her spend time in care”. There was a pilot episode in 2020, then two seasons of six 30-minute episodes in 2021 and 2024. The second season is the last, although there may be a Christmas special to come.
Best Limited Drama: Mr Bates vs The Post Office (ITV1), four-part dramatisation of the British Post Office scandal, where over 900 subpostmasters were wrongly convicted—and more were prosecuted, sacked or forced to cover erroneous shortfalls—between 1999 and 2015 for theft, false accounting or fraud due to Fujitsu’s faulty Horizon accounting software. Alan Bates was a subpostmaster wrongly sacked and a leading campaigner for victims of the scandal. This also won at last year’s National Television Awards and TRIC Awards.
Best International Programme: Shogun (Disney+), an American drama based on James Clavell’s terrific 1975 novel and set in 1600s Japan. The series has ten episodes of approx one hour long, has been renewed for two more series, and uses mostly Japanese actors and mostly Japanese dialogue. This was also dramatised in a 1980 mini-series starring Richard Chamberlain.
Others: See Wikipedia BAFTA TV 2025 for a concise summary of winners and shortlisted works.
2025 BRITISH BOOK AWARDS
The British Book Awards were presented on 12 May at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel, London
Running since: 1990, with a gap in 2015 and 2016
Eligibility: Run by The Bookseller magazine, this is for books published in the UK and Ireland in the previous year (2024)
Judging: Books are nominated by publishers and then longlists, shortlists and winners are selected by appointed judging panels for each award
Categories: Fourteen, with one voted as overall Book of the Year
Links: British Book Awards website; Wikipedia British Book Awards
Extras: The Bookseller also present the Book Trade Awards at the same time, which are trade awards for editing, marketing, publishing and the like; the awards are also known as The Nibbies, after the nib-shaped trophy
Selected Results
Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Narrative: Patriot by Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and political prisoner who died in prison in February 2024 at the age of forty-seven, after previously being poisoned—believed to be by the Russian security services—with a nerve agent. The book is a memoir of his life, with the second part his prison diary, entries of which were smuggled out of jail. The book was pieced together with the help of his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, was first published in the US and UK in Oct 2024, and was translated into eleven languages, including Russian—though it won’t be shipped to Russia as his team says “we cannot guarantee delivery and the absence of problems at customs.”
Fiction: James by Percival Everett—also winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (see above), a retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Crime and Thriller: Hunted by Abir Mukherjee, a 51-year-old British-Indian crime author. He’s written five books in the Wyndham and Banerjee series set in the British Raj era in India and following two Calcutta policemen, with a sixth due out soon. Hunted is his first novel outside this series, and is a thriller concerning the attempt to stop a terrorist act on US soil by the FBI and, separately, two of the parents of the two young people being hunted…though things may not be quite as they seem.
Children’s Fiction: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess by Jeff Kinney, a 54-year-old American author and illustrator, who created the phenomenally successful illustrated children’s novel series Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The series started in 2007 (although an online version was available from 2004), has sold over 290 million copies, has generated four live action films and three animated films, and Hot Mess is the nineteenth book in the series. Hot Mess relates to a family holiday and the need to unpack the secret recipe behind his grandmother’s famous meatballs. Reading the sample of Amazon, it’s very funny.
Book Trade Awards: among the 20 awards for categories such as Editor of the Year, Literary Agent of the Year and Publicity Campaign of the Year, The Heath Bookshop in Kings Heath near Birmingham won Independent Bookshop of the Year and Waterstones won Book Retailer of the Year—though I couldn’t get my local branch to take Culture Man.
2025 ARIAS AWARDS (UK RADIO)
The Audio and Radio Industry Awards (ARIAS) were presented at ODEON Luxe, Leicester Square in London on 14 May
Running since: 2016, with the predecessor award, The Sony Awards, running from 1983 to 2013
Eligibility: Run by the Radio Academy, a charity for the celebration and promotion of excellence in radio and audio (including podcast and streaming services).
Judging: A panel of judges is appointed for each award, with Gold, Silver and Bronze being awarded for each. The nominations are split 50-50 between BBC radio and commercial radio.
Categories: 21, plus two special awards
Links: ARIAS website; Wikipedia ARIAS (previous winners shown at either site)
Selected Results
Best Music Breakfast Show: Boogie in the Morning (Forth 1), for the second year running. The shows runs from 6am to 10am, Mon to Fri, and features the presenters Boogie (Andy Bouglas) and Arlene Stuart, and is produced by Marty (Martn Ewart). The show started in 2003 and dominates the breakfast listening figures in the Edinburgh, Lothians, Fife and Falkirk area. Forth 1 is an independent station based in Edinburgh, owned by Bauer Media Audio UK, who own several other UK stations. Listen live at Forth 1 (you’ll need to create an account and login).
The Comedy Award: The Skewer by Unusual Productions (BBC Radio 4). This won for three straight years from 2021-23, has run for thirteen series, starting in 2020, and is “a sound collage which combines topical soundbites with excerpts from popular culture, historical quotations and songs, often in unsettling or surreal ways”.
Best Drama or Fiction Award: One Hundred and Fifty Days, a play which formed one of the Drama on 4 episodes on BBC Radio 4, produced by BBC Audio Scotland. It was written by Olivier Emanuel, a playwright and radio dramatist, and is a combination of his unfinished audio drama (The Great Wave) and extracts from his autobiographical work (All My Reading). The drama was unfinished because he found he couldn’t read, which was due to brain cancer. He died in December 2023 at the age of forty-three, after being diagnosed in Apr 2023, and the play was put together with the help of his widow, Victoria Beesley. You can listen to it at the link above.
Best Sports Award: Premier League Sunday (BBC Radio 5 Live).
Others: All winners and shortlisted entries are listed at ARIAS 2025 winners.
2025 ROMANTIC NOVELIST ASSOCIATION AWARDS
The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) Awards were presented on 19 May at the Leonardo Royal Hotel, St Paul’s, London
Running since: 1960
Eligibility: English-language romance novels published last year by UK, Irish or Commonwealth authors
Judging: Awards are based on reader judgment, with volunteer judges assigned work by the RNA, except for Popular Romantic Fiction, which is selected by booksellers, bloggers and librarians.
Categories: Eleven; an overall Romantic Novel of the Year (RoNA) was chosen from the category winners between 1960 to 2018, but, for reasons best known to the RNA, this has been scrapped so there is no longer a “blue ribbon” or most prestigious award
Links: RNA website; Wikipedia RNA Awards
Extras: It took fifty-seven years for a man to be named as a winner of one of the RNA's romance awards, with two winners in 2018. However, in 2009, it was discovered that the winner of the 1978 Romantic Novel of the Year, Merlin's Keep by Madeleine Brent, picked up by "her" publisher at the time, was actually by Peter O'Donnell. I’m still working on my romantic bestseller.
Selected Results
I’ve put these in order of the number of Amazon reviews, with the most at the top. As a secret, which I don’t admit to, once you start reading the Amazon samples of these, they’re very good!
Contemporary Romantic Novel: A Love Letter to Paris by Rebecca Raisin, an Australian romance author with twenty-plus books to her name. About a mystery matchmaker in Paris who receives a love note herself—but who is it from?
Historical Romantic Novel Award: Jointly won by The Wicked Lady by Elena Collins (who also writes as Judy Leigh), a Somerset-based author of twenty-plus books including romance and cosy mystery, and The Last Song of Winter by Lulu Taylor, a Dorset-based author of fifteen-odd romance novels. The Wicked Lady is a “timeslip” novel, partly set in the 1600s about a woman, Katherine Ferrers, unhappily betrothed and married, and partly in the present about a man renovating an old cottage once owned by the constable charged with ridding the area of highwaymen. The stories coalesce (clue: she’s a highwaywoman). Actually, Katherine Ferrers was a real person and posthumously rumoured to be a highwaywoman and labelled The Wicked Lady. Is it true? Who knows, but a number of novels and films have been based on her legend. The Last Song of Winter is, coincidentally, another timeslip novel, set in the 1940s, where a woman retreats to an island off the Welsh coast for solace from the war and lost love; and in the present day, where a woman arrives on the island, now a bird sanctuary, with just the warden for company, and starts to uncover the story of the previous woman along with her secrets and associated tragedy, heartbreak and redemption.
Jackie Collins Award for Romantic Thrillers: Whatever it Takes by Joy Wood, a retired nurse living in Lincolnshire who first published in 2015 and now has nine books under her belt. Two couples become friends, but when they go on holiday there is a fatal accident and a secret that one of them is determined to stop coming out.
Popular Romantic Fiction: All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny, an author of queer historical romance. This is her second book and the second book of the Barden Series, set in the middle ages. The lady protagonist discovers her female best friend’s hand in marriage is being awarded as the prize at a tournament and disguises herself as a knight to infiltrate the contest. Various adventures ensue and they fall in love (I’m guessing a bit, but I think that’s fairly accurate).
Romantic Comedy Award: Love Me Till Wednesday by Suzanne Lissaman, an author, artist and photographer living in the West Midlands. Her first novel won last year’s RNA Debut Romantic Novel Award and Love Me Till Wednesday is her fourth book, with two more available on pre-order. That’s pretty quick progress, but then Barbara Cartland once wrote 23 books in a year. Anyway, the book is about Lisa, who’s in a rut and resurrects her old singing career, discovering secrets and an unexpected second-chance romance along the way.
Others: All eleven awards can be see on the RNA website 2025 awards
2025 IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS (for songwriting)
The Ivor Novello Awards (The Ivors) were presented on 22 May at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel, London
Running since: 1956
Eligibility: Awarded to British, Irish or UK resident songwriters and composers for works released in the UK in the previous year (2024)
Judging: Run by the The Ivors Academy, a professional association for music writers with about 2,000 members; each category is judged by panels of seven established songwriters and composers to decide the nominations—approximately five—and the winner; anyone eligible can enter via an online form
Categories: Thirteen; in addition, some people may be elected to the Academy Fellowship
Links: Ivors website; Ivors Award Archive; Wikipedia Ivor Awards; Wikipedia Best Song Musically and Lyrically (list of winners)
Extras: Note that the awards are for the songwriters not the performers, though sometimes they coincide. The Ivors Classical Awards (formerly the Ivors Composer Awards) are sister awards in Nov/Dec that started in 2003, and celebrate excellence in UK classical, jazz and sound arts, currently with ten categories such as Best chamber ensemble composition or Best orchestral composition. We don’t cover that here, but the historic winners can be found at the archive link in the above bullet.
Selected Results
Best Song Musically and Lyrically: Mine by Orla Gartland, a 30-year-old Irish singer and songwriter (writer and performer). The song is from her second album, Everybody Needs a Hero. Her genre is described variously as folk-pop, alt-pop, indie-pop or acoustic—“Mine” itself is a stripped back production with just “her vocal, a slender guitar line, and a haunting four-piece string part” (clashmusic.com). In former years, the winner of this would often, though not always, be a blockbuster by the likes of Sting, Elton John or Amy Winehouse. “Mine” didn’t make an impact on the charts but the point is to award great songwriting, so give it a try—I like it!
Best Contemporary Song: Circumnavigating Georgia, the title song of the debut album by Sans Soucis (writer and performer). This is the stage name of the London-based Italian-Congolese artist Giulia Grispino, who grew up in Italy. Scanning online, her (or their—the person’s pronouns are described as she/they or they/them) genre is referred to, for example, as experimental pop or “classical Italian song writing, alternative R&B and electronica, plus Congolese Rumba influences”. Howsoever classified, it’s a good, melodic song in my expert opinion.
Album of the Year: Who Am I, the first studio album by Berwyn, a Trinidadian rapper, producer and songwriter, based in East London (writer and performer). His most popular song is Wrong Ones.
Songwriter of the Year: Charli XCX, a 32-year-old English singer-songwriter who’s released six albums so far, with her genre described on Wikipedia as electropop / dance-pop / experimental pop / hyperpop. Not rock ’n’ roll or country though. Her most successful singles include I Love It (with Icona Pop) and Guess (with Billie Eilish).
Others: For full 2025 results, see Ivors Archive 2025.
2025 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
The Cannes film festival, previewing new films from around the world, took place from 13 to 24 May at its usual venue of the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, a convention centre overlooking Cannes Bay, with the main prizes presented on the final day; sunglasses are compulsory
Running since: 1946—although the opening gala was held for the 1939 event, before the start of the Second World War caused its cancellation
Eligibility: Films are submitted for consideration via an online entry form and the Festival Selection Committee chooses an Official Selection from these of approximately sixty films to be shown at the festival
Judging: About twenty of the Official Selection are classified as "In competition" by the selection committee, which are eligible for the main competition prizes such as the Palme d'Or and Grand Prix (effectively the first and second prizes); the winners are selected by juries chosen by the Festival's board of directors; twenty films with unusual styles and non-traditional stories are classified as Un Certain Regard and these are eligible for other awards
Categories: Eight In-Competition feature film prizes, plus a Palme d’Or for short films (these are the main prizes); also various categories for Un Certain Regard films and a few other prizes including independent awards
Links: Cannes Film Festival website; Wikipedia, Palme d’Or winners; Palm Dog Award website; Wikipedia Palm Dog Award
Extras: The Palm Dog Award is an unofficial award presented by a jury of international film critics for the best canine performance; first run in 2001, it attracts media attention and is normally hosted at the Grand Hotel's beach in Cannes on the penultimate day of the festival; Cannes is the highest profile film festival but there are other prominent ones such as Berlin, Venice, Toronto and Sundance (based in Utah, US), which I don’t cover on the blog
Selected Results
Palme d’Or: It Was Just an Accident, written and directed by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who still lives in Iran but is critical of the government and has been imprisoned several times. A garage owner believes he recognises a man whose car has broken down as the officer who tortured him in prison. He stalks and kidnaps the man and prepares to take revenge, but is it really the right man? He seeks confirmation from other victims and they examine whether it is the right man and the morality of killing him.
Grand Prix: Sentimental Value, a Norwegian comedy drama directed by Joachim Trier, about estranged sisters confronting their distant father, an almost-forgotten film director who sees a route back to fame via an autobiographical screenplay abut his mother. There’s probably more to it than that!
Palm Dog Award: This is the one you’re waiting for. Panda, an Icelandic sheepdog won for her performance in The Love That Remains, a drama exploring a year in the life of an Icelandic family as the parents separate. She won, according to a jury member, because of how central she is to the family's life, joining them on hikes, in the car or at the mother's art studio. The prize was collected by Lola, a double, since Panda couldn’t attend—but she did send in a video. See YouTube Palm Dog (Reuters).
Others: See the full list of winners at the Cannes 2025 winners press release.
2024 JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZES
The James Tait Black Prizes for fiction and biography were announced on 30 May by the University of Edinburgh’s English Literature department
Running since: 1919—the UK’s joint oldest literary prize, with the Hawthornden Prize
Eligibility: Originally this was for books by authors of any nationality, written in English and first published in Britain in the calendar year of the award. This was updated recently and is essentially the same except translations are now allowed—which is just as well, since both winners this year are translations. Authors can only win each category once.
Judging: This is run by the University of Edinburgh’s School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures; Edinburgh University academics and postgraduate students nominate books for the shortlist and then two academic judges, one each for fiction and biography, are assisted by postgraduate students to choose the winners
Categories: Two; a third prize, for drama, was presented from 2012 to 2013—the website states this as on pause
Extras: The prizes were founded by Janet Coats Black in memory of her late husband, James Tait Black, a partner in the publishing house of A & C Black (who have published Who’s Who since 1849 and are now owned by Bloomsbury Publishing). The winners tend to be a bit more obscure than for some literary prizes, especially recently, but well-known winners of the fiction prize include Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Iris Murdoch, Salman Rushdie, Sadie Smith, Ian McEwan and Cormac McCarthy.
Selected Results
Fiction: My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld, a 34-year-old Dutch writer and poet (born female, now using he/him pronouns), translated by Michele Hutchison, a 52-year-old British writer and translator. This is Lucas’s second novel, the first of which, The Discomfort of Evening, won the International Booker Prize in 2021, also with Michele as translator. It’s about the obsessive love felt by a vet for the 14-year-old daughter of a farmer whose cows he treats. The reviews of both this book and the first tend to use the words, “uncomfortable”, “disturbing” and “unsettling”!
Biography: My Great Arab Melancholy by Lamia Ziadé, a 56-year-old Lebanese author and illustrator living in Paris, translated by Emma Ramadan, a French to English translator of British-Lebanese heritage living in the US. The book contains over 300 illustrations, and the announcement on the James Tait Black website states, “A richly illustrated memoir intertwining personal narrative with the political and cultural history of the modern Arab world, the book reflects on tragedies which have impacted the region. Blending memoir, history and pop culture, My Great Arab Melancholy traces the lives of Arab intellectuals from the mid-20th century onward.”
SIGNIFICANT BESTSELLERS
Films: The following films have moved through the number one positions on both the US and UK box office charts through May: Thunderbolts*, Final Destination: Bloodlines and Lilo & Stitch. They are, respectively, a US Marvel superheroes film, a US supernatural horror film (the sixth in the Final Destination series) and—in a remake of the 2002 Lilo & Stitch film—a US science fiction comedy film with mixed live action and animation and an alien puppet (more or less).
Music: At the very end of the month something has changed. Ordinary by Alex Warren, a US singer-songwriter, has stayed at number one in the UK through May, taking it to eleven consecutive weeks. But Luther, by Kendrick Lamar and SZA, a US rapper and a US singer-songwriter, has finally been displaced after thirteen weeks at number one in the US, with What I Want by Morgan Wallen featuring Tate McRae taking over.
Books: Books from last month (and the month before and probably the month before that) still running high are The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins—to stop wasting energy on things you can't control; Rebecca Yarros’ Empyrean romantasy series, especially the third book, Onyx Storm; Suzanne Collins’ Sunrise on the Reaping, the fifth in The Hunger Games series; and His Secret Family by Ali Mercer. New books on the rise are Nightshade by Michael Connelly, a US crime fiction writer of forty-odd books; Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, about the Biden administration and especially the cover-up over his declining health and cognitive abilities; We Solve Murders by Richard Osman, recently released in paperback and a departure from his phenomenally selling Thursday Murder Club books; and, for the youngsters, The Floating World, a romantic fantasy by Axie Oh, an American young adult author.
TV: Here’s a quick list of the top TV series and movies in May:
UK broadcast TV: Race Across the World on BBC One has been at the top of the UK’s weekly BARB figures except for mid-May when BBC One’s Eurovision Song Contest coverage took the top spot.
US broadcast TV: Series 7 of FBI, a police procedural show on CBS is at the top of the recent Neilsen ratings.
TV series streaming: The second series of The Last of Us, a post-apocalyptic American drama set twenty years into a pandemic which causes its hosts to transform into zombie-like creatures, is at the top of streaming series for US, UK and Global.
Next month’s Awards: Nebula Awards for sci-fi and fantasy (7 Jun); Tony Awards for Broadway theatre (9 Jun); Women’s Prize for Fiction (and Non-Fiction) (12 Jun); Bram Stoker Awards for horror writing (14 Jun); Carnegie Medals for children’s writing and illustration (19 Jun); TRIC Awards for UK TV and radio (24 Jun); Arthur C. Clarke Award for sci-fi (25 Jun). In addition, the Summer Exhibition (for artwork) will run from 17 Jun to 17 Aug at Burlington House in London, and the Charles Wollaston Prize is likely to be awarded near the start of the exhibition. Looks like another busy month
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