As a child Lesley’s parents encouraged her to use libraries so she particularly welcomed their involvement  in The People’s Book Prize. She expressed the concern that government support for the Public Lending Rights, a valuable source of income to writers like herself,  would be affected by the spending review in the Autumn.

Lesley’s publishers are to reprint A Kind of Vanishing and have alerted readers that there are only a few first editions still available.

In her acceptance speech Lesley told the 150 strong audience of writers, publishers, agents  and press that she was proud to be the first winner of this new prize. See The People’s Book Prize news page on http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/news.htm

Lesley accepting the Award for Fiction

(For the late Dame Beryl Bainbridge launching the Prize at the 2009 London Book Fair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itTKF2Y3j3E )

Lesley Thomson - Winner of People's Book Prize for Fiction

A Kind of Vanishing won The People’s Book Prize for January. This prize awarded by readers and supported by libraries across the UK.  Thanks so much to all readers who voted for me.

http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/