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A travelogue exploring Britain's birds of prey is among the winners of the 2011 Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction.
James Macdonald Lockhart (pictured centre, with assessors Andrew Holgate and Christopher Potter) received the £10,000 award for Raptor: A Journey Through Britain’s Birds of Prey, a blend of natural history and travel writing to be published by Fourth Estate in 2014.
One of two £5,000 awards was presented to Gerard Russell for Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, an exploration of minority religions in the middle and far east to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2013. Helen Smith also received a £5,000 award for biography Edward Garnett: The Uncommon Reader, coming from Cape in 2013.
Meanwhile an additional award of £2,000 went to Polly Morland for The Society of Timid Souls, or How to be Brave, which will blend human stories of courage with ideas from philosophy and literature, and will come out from Profile in spring of next year.
The awards are given by the Royal Society of Literature and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation to authors working on their first major commissioned works of non-fiction.
Broadcaster Mark Lawson joined Sunday Times literary editor Andrew Holgate and Christopher Potter, former Fourth Estate m.d., on the judging panel.