Our congratulations to all short-listed publishers and authors. You’ll find images of the publications’ covers and links to the publishers/ websites here: https://gorsedhkernow.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/NominationsCovers23-1.pdf
Class 1 Dyllansow yn Kernewek (Publications in the Cornish language)
Class 1a: Lyvrow yn Kernewek rag dyskas (Books in Cornish for teaching)
- Gerlyver Mur dhe Les by Clive Baker published by Agan Tavas
- Origo Mundi (Student Edition) edited by Roger Courtenay and published by Kesva an Taves Kernewek
Class 1b: Lyvrow yn Kernewek rag fleghes (Books in Cornish for children)
There were no submissions in this class this year.
Class 1c: Lyvrow yn Kernewek rag tevesigyon ha tevesigesow (Books in Cornish for adults)
- Dadhel an Dega en Pluw Bawl by Rod Lyon published by Spyrys a Gernow
- Kegin Esther by Esther Johns published by Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek
- Unn Ethves Kernewek by Philip Chadwick published by Kesva an Taves Kernewek
Class 1d: Lyvrow treylyes yn Kernewek (Books translated into Cornish)
There were no submissions in this class this year.
Class 2 Books for children
Class 2a: Books for children of primary age
- The Cornwall Sticker Book by Evelyn Sinclair published by Inspired by Lakeland
- The Moon Over Pennycomequick by Mike O’Connor published by Lyngham House
Class 2b: Books for young adults
- Seal Song by Mike O’Connor published by Lyngham House
- Smiley and the Acorn – Treasure on the Isles of Scilly by Roger Underwood published by MAPublisher (Writer’s Champion)
Class 3 Fiction for adults
Class 3a: Literary fiction
- Mother’s Boy by Patrick Gale published by Tinder Press
- The White Hare by Jane Johnson published by Head of Zeus (Apollo Fiction)
- Whistling Jack by Josephine Gardiner published by Hypatia Publications
Class 3b: General fiction
- Be Brave for Me by Elaine Johns published by Bookouture
- Every Shade of Happy by Phyllida Shrimpton published by Arla, Head of Zeus
- Happenstance by Melville Jones published by Troubador Publishing Ltd.
- Maiden Point by J.T. Croft published by Elmfire Press
- The Body in the Wall by Anna Penrose published by Mudlark’s Press
- The Girl with the Yellow Star by Natalie Meg Evans published by Bookouture
Class 4 Poetry and Drama
Class 4a: Poetry
- Cornish Modern Poetries by Aaron Kent and Ella Frears published by Broken Sleep Books
- U-Boy by Simon Parker published by Scryfa
Class 4b: Drama
There were no submissions in this class this year.
Class 5 Non-fiction for adults
Class 5a: Social, cultural and political history
- A Murderous Midsummer by Professor Mark Stoyle published by Yale University Press London
- A Time to Build by Michael Warner published by Scryfa
- Agan Kernow by Ken Peak published by the Cornish Association of Victoria
- Illuminating our Lantern Crosses: A Catalogue of late medieval Cornish Lantern Crosses and related stone sculpture by Andrew G. Langdon and Ann Preston-Jones published by Andrew Langdon
- Vaccination Wars by Ella Stewart-Peters published by University of Exeter Press
- The Cornish Buildings Group: First 50 Years by Paul Holden, John Stengelhofen, Joanna Mattingly and Patrick Newberry published by The Cornish Buildings Group
Class 5b: Science, Environment and Industrial/Marine
- Adrift: The Curious Tale of Lego Lost at Sea by Tracey Williams published by Unicorn
- Dodging about in the Mullion Roads by Robert Felce published by Robert Felce
- Listening to the Enemy by Michael Griffiths published by Pearl and Michael Griffiths
- The Lowlands (An Iseldiryow) by Terry Moyle published by Terry Moyle
- The St. Ives Branch Line: A History by Richard C. Long published by Pen and Sword Books Ltd.
Class 5c: Leisure and Lifestyle
- Cycling in Cornwall by Liz Hurley published by Mudlark’s Press
- Matter of the Otherworld by Samuel Davison published by Samuel Davison
- Salty Cove by Barbara Hocking, Jill Edwards, Matthew Facey, Sally Mitchell and Lauren Hunkin published by Fishermen’s Mission Charity
- Waves Volume 2 – Seascapes, Surf and Storms by Mike Newman published by Trevale Press
Class 5d Memoir
- The Draw of the Sea by Wyl Menmuir published by Aurum Press
- Tony Giles, Painter of Man-made Cornwall by John Branfield published by Mingoose Books
Class 6 Booklets
- Grove Hill: Falmouth’s finest eighteenth-century mansion by Mike Jenks published by Mike Jenks
- Rosamunde Pilcher’s Cornwall by Gill Knappett published by Pitkin
- The New Zealand Cornish Association 1962-2022 by Judy Wright, Geoff Curson and Nick Bartle published by The New Zealand Cornish Association
- The Story of Travelling Showman Joseph Brewer and his family by Ken Rickard published by K.H. and V.J. Rickard