The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards celebrate the best travel writing and travel writers in the world. The awards include the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year and the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing. The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year was previously called Dolman Best Travel Book Award (2006-2014). The award is named after

Edward Stanford Edward Stanford (27 May 1827 3 November 1904) was the founder of Stanfords, now a pair of map and book shops based in London and Bristol, UK. Biography Born in 1827, and educated at the City of London School The City of London School, ...

and is sponsored by

Stanfords Stanfords is a specialist bookshop of maps and travel books in London, established in 1853 by Edward Stanford. Its collection of maps, globes, and maritime charts is considered the world's largest. It has also supplied cartography for the Bri ...

, a travel books and map store established in London in 1853. The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year is one of the two principal annual travel book awards in Britain, and the only one that is open to all writers. The other award is that made each year by the

British Guild of Travel Writers The British Guild of Travel Writers Limited is described as a community of accredited writers, photographers, and broadcasters; the trusted body for independent editorial comment and expert content on worldwide travel. The organisation was founde ...

, but that is limited to authors who are members of the Guild. The first Dolman award was given in 2006, just two years after the only other travel book award - the

Thomas Cook Travel Book Award The Thomas Cook Travel Book Award originated as an initiative of Thomas Cook AG in 1980, with the aim of encouraging and rewarding the art of literary travel writing. The awards stopped in 2005 (2004 being the last year an award was given). One ye ...

which ran for 25 years - was abandoned by its sponsor. From its founding through 2014, the £1,000 to £2,500 prize was organized by the

Authors' Club The Authors' Club is a British membership organisation established as a place where writers could meet and talk. It was founded by the novelist and critic Walter Besant in 1891. It is headquartered at the National Liberal Club. The Authors' C ...

and was sponsored by and named after club member William Dolman. Beginning in 2015, a new sponsor Stanfords, a travel book store, was established along with an increase to £5,000 for the winner.

List of awards

The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards consist of the following: * Stanford Travel Book of the Year * Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing * Bradt Travel Guides New Travel Writer of the Year * Children's Travel Book of the Year * Fiction with a Sense of Place * Adventure Travel Book of the Year * Travel Memoir of the Year * Travel Blog of the Year * Photography and Illustrated Travel Book of The Year * Food & Travel Book of the Year * Innovation in Travel Publishing * New Travel Writer of the Year

Stanford Travel Book of the Year

= winner "Stanford Travel Book of the Year": 2025 *

Noo Saro-Wiwa Noo Saro-Wiwa is a British-Nigerian author, noted for her travel writing. She is the daughter of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Education Noo Saro-Wiwa was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and grew up in Ewell, Surrey in England. She attended ...

, ''Black Ghosts: A Journey Into The Lives Of Africans In China'' * Clare Hammond, ''On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar'' * Tom Chesshyre, ''Slow Trains to Istanbul: ...And Back: A 4,570-Mile Adventure on 55 Rides'' * James Rebanks, ''The Place of Tides'' * Phoebe Smith, ''Wayfarer'' * Jeff Young, ''Wild Twin'' 2024 *

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (Arabic: غيث عبدالأحد, born 1975) is an Iraqi journalist who began working after the U.S. invasion. Abdul-Ahad has written for ''The Guardian'' and ''The Washington Post'' and published photographs in ''The New York T ...

, ''A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War'' *

Alice Albinia Alice Albinia (born 1976) is an English journalist and author whose first book, '' Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River'' (2008), won several awards. Albinia was born in London and read English Literature at Cambridge University and Sou ...

, ''The Britannias: An Archipelago’s Tale'' *

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, ''The Gathering Place: A Winter Pilgrimage Through Changing Times'' * Tim Hannigan, ''The Granite Kingdom'' * Leon McCarron, ''Wounded Tigris'' * Tom Parfitt, ''High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland'' 2023 * Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, ''In The Shadow of the Mountain'' * Alex Bescoby, ''The Last Overland: Singapore to London: The Return Journey of the Iconic Land Rover Expedition'' * Erika Fatland, ''High: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China'' * Tobias Jones, ''The Po: An Elegy for Italy’s Longest River'' * Rebecca Lowe, ''The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East'' * Shafik Meghji, ''Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia'' * Alice Morrison, ''Walking with Nomads'' * Mary Novakovich, ''My Family and Other Enemies: Life and Travels in Croatia’s Hinterland'' "Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year": 2022 *

Colin Thubron Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, ''The Times'' ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to ''The New York Review of Books'', ''The Times'', '' ...

, '' The Amur River: Between Russia and China'' * Polly Barton, ''Fifty Sounds'' * Tharik Hussain, ''Minarets in the Mountains'' * Nina Mingya Powles, ''Small Bodies of Water'' * Joseph Zárate, ''Wars of the Interior'' 2021 *

Paolo Cognetti Paolo Cognetti (born 27 January 1978) is an Italian writer and filmmaker, winner of the 2017 Strega Prize. Biography Born in Milan, he initially studied mathematics at university, but quit to enroll at Milan's film-making school ''Civica Scu ...

, ''Without Ever Reaching the Summit: A Himalayan Journey'' * Erika Fatland, ''The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage'' * Taran Khan, ''Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul'' *

Nanjala Nyabola Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan writer, political analyst, and activist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Career Nyabola writes extensively about African society and politics, technology, international law, and feminism for academic and non-academic publi ...

, ''Traveling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move'' * Jini Reddy, ''Wanderland: A Search for Magic in the Landscape'' * Sophy Roberts, ''The Lost Pianos of Siberia'' * C J Schuler, ''Along the Amber Route: St Petersburg to Venice'' * Jonathan C Slaght, ''Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl'' 2020 * Robert Macfarlane, '' Underland'' *

Rory Mclean Rory MacLean FRSL (born 5 November 1954) is a British-Canadian historian and travel writer who lives and works in Berlin and the United Kingdom. His best known works are ''Stalin’s Nose'', a travelogue through eastern Europe after the fall of t ...

, ''Pravda Ha Ha'' *

Paul Theroux Paul Edward Theroux ( ; born April 10, 1941) is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue '' The Great Railway Bazaar'' (1975). Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films ...

, ''On the Plain of Snakes'' *

Nicholas Jubber Nicholas Jubber is a British travel writer. He was educated at Downside School and Oxford University. After obtaining a degree in English, he taught in Jerusalem. He has travelled throughout South America, Europe, the Middle East and East Africa. ...

, ''Epic Continent'' *

Simon Winder Simon Winder is a British writer. He is the author of several books, including a trilogy of books on the history of Central Europe: ''Germania'', ''Danubia'' and ''Lotharingia''. The second book in the trilogy, ''Danubia'', which deals with the ...

, ''Lotharingia'' *

Anna Sherman Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna of East Anglia, King (died c.654) * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th ce ...

, ''The Bells Of Old Tokyo'' *

Richard Bassett Richard Basset or Bassett may refer to: * Richard Basset (died between 1135 and 1144), royal judge and sheriff during the reign of King Henry I of England * Richard Basset, 1st Baron Basset of Weldon (died 1314), English noble * Richard Bassett ( ...

, ''Last Days in Old Europe'' *

Monisha Rajesh Monisha Rajesh (born 1982) is a British journalist and travel writer. Early life Rajesh was born in Norfolk, England, the child of two Indian doctors. The family moved from Sheffield to Madras, India, in 1991. After two years they returned to En ...

, ''Around the World in 80 Trains'' * Sara Wheeler, ''Mud and Stars'' 2019 * William Atkins, ''The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places'' *

Ben Coates Ben Terrence Coates Jr. (born August 16, 1969) is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons, primarily with the New England Patriots. He played college football for ...

, ''The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps'' * Damian Le Bas, ''The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain'' * Alev Scott, Map and Illustration by Jamie Whyte, ''Ottoman Odyssey: Travels Through a Lost Empire'' * Witold Szablowski, ''Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days'' (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd Jones) *

Daniel Trilling Daniel Trilling is a British journalist, editor and author. He was the editor of ''New Humanist'' magazine from 2013 to 2019. He writes about migration, nationalism and human rights and is the author of ''Lights in the Distance: exile and refuge ...

, ''Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe'' 2018 *

Patrick Barkham Patrick may refer to: *Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name *Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People *Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint *Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick or ...

, ''Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago'' * Garrett Carr, ''The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border'' * Kapka Kassabova, ''Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe'' * Kushanava Choudhury, ''The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta'' *

Philip Hoare Philip Hoare (Southampton, 1958) is a British writer, film-maker and curator. He won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize, now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, for his work ''Leviathan, or the Whale''. Early life and education Ho ...

, ''Risingtidefallingstar'' *

Nick Hunt Nick may refer to: People and fictional characters * Nick (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Désirée Nick, German actress and writer Places * Nick, Hungary, a village * Nick, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, a v ...

, ''Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence'' * Isambard Wilkinson, Photographs by Chev Wilkinson, ''Travels in a Dervish Cloak'' 2017 ''no award''Award year shifted from being the year the books were published to the year the award was presented. 2016 * James Attlee, ''Station To Station: Searching for Stories On The Great Western Line'' *

Geoff Dyer Geoff Dyer (born 1958) is an English author. He has written a number of novels and non-fiction books, some of which have won literary awards. Dyer was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005.

, ''White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World'' *

Elisabeth Luard Elisabeth Luard (born 1941) née Longmore is a food writer, artist and broadcaster. She is Chair Emerita of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. She was born in 1941, shortly before her father Richard Longmore was killed in action as wing ...

, ''Squirrel Pie (and other stories): Adventures in Food Across the Globe'' *

Jim Perrin Jim Perrin (born 30 March 1947), is an English rock climber and travel writer. Biography Jim Perrin was born Ernest James Perrin in Manchester, England, to a family of Huguenot descent. His father played rugby league for Salford in the late 19 ...

, ''The Hills of Wales'' * Julian Sayarer, ''Interstate: Hitchhiking Through the State of a Nation'' *

, ''Deep South'' 2015 * Philip Marsden, ''Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place'' * Helena Attlee, ''The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit'' * Horatio Clare, ''Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men'' *

, ''Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn'' *

Jens Mühling Jens may refer to: * Jens (given name), a list of people with the name * Jens (surname), a list of people * Jens, Switzerland, a municipality * 1719 Jens, an asteroid See also * Jensen (disambiguation) Jensen may refer to: People and fictional ...

, ''A Journey into Russia'' * Elizabeth Pisani, ''Indonesia Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation'' "Dolman Best Travel Book Award": 2014 *

Oliver Bullough Oliver James Bullough (born September 1977) is a British writer. Early life Bullough was born in 1977 and grew up on a sheep farm in Mid Wales. He studied History at Oxford University.Daniloff, Nicholas. (2012)Review of the book Let Our F ...

, ''The Last Man in Russia'' *

Patrick Leigh Fermor Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greate ...

, ''The Broken Road'' *

Charlotte Higgins Charlotte Higgins, (born 6 September 1972) is a British writer and journalist. Early life and education Higgins was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, the daughter of a doctor and a nurse, and received her secondary education at a local indepen ...

, ''Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain'' *

Iain Sinclair Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, recently within the influences of psychogeography. Early life and education Sinclair was born in Cardiff, Wales, on 11 June 1943. From 19 ...

, ''American Smoke'' *

Sylvain Tesson Sylvain Tesson (born 26 April 1972) is a French writer and traveller born in Paris. He has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books. Among his most successful works are ''The Consolations of the Fo ...

, '' Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga'' * Sara Wheeler, ''O My America!'' 2013 *

, ''Looking For Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria'' * Jeremy Seal, ''Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River'' *

Kathleen Jamie Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is a Scottish poet and essayist. In 2021 she became Scotland's fourth Makar. Life and work Kathleen Jamie is a poet and essayist. Raised in Currie, near Edinburgh, she studied philosophy at the University ...

, ''Sightlines'' *

A. A. Gill Adrian Anthony Gill (28 June 1954 – 10 December 2016) was a British writer, best known for writing about food and travel, and for his work in television. Publications he contributed to included ''The Sunday Times'', wrote for '' Vanity Fair'' ...

, ''The Golden Door: Letters to America'' * Robert MacFarlane, ''The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot'' * Michael Jacobs, ''The Robber of Memories: A River Journey Through Colombia'' 2012 *

Julia Blackburn Julia Blackburn (born 1948) is a British author of both fiction and non-fiction. She is the daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn and artist Rosalie de Meric. Julia Blackburn's bohemian and troubled upbringing is the subject of her memoir ''The T ...

, ''Thin Paths: Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village'' *

John Gimlette John Gimlette is an English journalist and author of travel literature. He has published six books to date: ''Panther Soup: A European Journey in War and Peace'', ''Theatre Of Fish: Travels through Newfoundland and Labrador'', ''At The Tomb Of T ...

, ''Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge'' * Jacek Hugo-Bader, ''White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia'' *

Olivia Laing Olivia Laing (born 14 April 1977) is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic. They are the author of five works of non-fiction, ''To the River'', ''The Trip to Echo Spring,'' '' The Lonely City'', ''Everybody'', ''The Garden Against Time'' ...

, ''To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface'' * Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, ''Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America'' *

, ''To a Mountain in Tibet'' 2011 * Nicolas Jubber, ''Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan'' * Rachel Polonsky, ''Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History'' *

Katherine Russell Rich Katherine Russell Rich (November 17, 1955 – April 3, 2012) was an American autobiographical writer from New York City. Her first book, ''The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer, and Back'', told of a clash of cultures occurring when the author's bre ...

, ''Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language'' *

Graham Robb Graham Macdonald Robb FRSL (born 2 June 1958, in Manchester) is a British author and critic specialising in French literature. Biography Born at Manchester, Robb attended the Royal Grammar School, Worcester, before going up to Exeter College ...

, ''Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris'' * Douglas Rogers, '' The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe'' *

, ''Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History'' 2010 *

William Blacker Lieutenant Colonel William Blacker (1 September 1777 – 25 November 1855)''Burke's Peerage'' gives information for two contemporaries named William Blacker. Page 103 gives and brother of Valentine Blacker with 1776 as birth and 20 October 1850 ...

, ''Along the Enchanted Way'' * Horatio Clare, ''A Single Swallow'' *

Matthew Engel Matthew Lewis Engel (born 11 June 1951) is a British writer, journalist and editor. Early life and education Engel was born in Northampton, son of solicitor Max David Engel (1912-2005) and Betty Ruth (née Lesser). His grandfather had escaped anti ...

, ''Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain'' * Daniel Metcalfe, ''Out of Steppe'' * Susan Richards, ''Lost and Found in Russia'' *

Hugh Thomson Hugh Thomson (1 June 18607 May 1920) was an Irish Illustration, illustrator. He is best known for his pen-and-ink illustrations of works by authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and J. M. Barrie. Thomson inaugurated the ''Cranford Sch ...

, ''Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico'' * Ian Thomson, ''The Dead Yard'' 2009 *

, ''Empires of the Indus'' * Andrew Brown, ''Fishing in Utopia'' * Richard Grant, ''Bandit Roads'' * Kapka Kassabova, ''Street Without a Name'' *

Grevel Lindop Grevel Charles Garrett Lindop (born 6 October 1948) is an English poet, academic and literary critic. Life Lindop was born in Liverpool to solicitor John Neale Lindop, LL.M. and Winifred (née Garrett), and educated at Liverpool College, then W ...

, ''Travels on the Dance Floor'' *

Dervla Murphy Dervla Murphy (28 November 1931 – 22 May 2022) was an Irish touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books, writing for more than 50 years. Murphy is best known for her 1965 book '' Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle'', about a ...

, '' The Island that Dared'' 2008 *

Tim Butcher Tim Butcher (born 15 November 1967) is an English author, broadcaster and journalist. He is the author of '' Blood River'' (2007), ''Chasing the Devil'' (2010) and ''The Trigger'' (2014), travel books blending contemporary adventure with history ...

, ''Blood River'' *

Henry Hemming Henry Hemming (born December 1979) is an English non-fiction author. In 2017 it was announced that his book, ''M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest Spymaster'', based on the life of Maxwell Knight, would be adapted for television by Mammoth Screen w ...

, ''Misadventure in the Middle East'' * John Lucas, ''92 Acharnon Street'' * Robert Macfarlane, ''The Wild Places'' *

Christopher Robbins Christopher Robbins (19 November 1946 – 24 December 2012) was a British writer and journalist. He is best known for his 1978 bestseller '' Air America'', a non-fiction book which was made into a film in 1990. It is about the secret air ...

, ''In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared'' 2007 *

Rory McCarthy Rory McCarthy (born 4 September 1975) is a retired Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club St Martin's and with the Wexford senior inter-county team. He played in the half-back line. Career McCarthy first played hurling ...

, ''Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated'' *

David McKie David McKie (born 1935) is a British journalist and historian. He was deputy editor of ''The Guardian'' and continued to write a weekly column for that paper until 4 October 2007, called "Elsewhere". Until 10 September 2005, he also wrote a sec ...

, ''Great British Bus Journeys'' * Tom Parry, ''Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback'' * Claire Scobie, '' Last Seen in Lhasa'' 2006 *

, ''The Prester Quest'' *

Joanna Kavenna Joanna Kavenna (born 1974) is a British novelist, essayist and travel writer. She won the Orange Award for New Writers for her novel ''Inglorious''. She has also been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Orange Prize and shortlis ...

, ''The Ice Museum'' *

Ruth Padel Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS (born 8 May 1946) is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author. Life She studied Greek at Oxford, where she sang in Schola Cantorum of Oxford, wrote a PhD on ancient Greek poetry, and was a Research Fellow at W ...

, ''Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers'' *

Richard Lloyd Parry Richard Lloyd Parry (born 1969) is a British foreign correspondent and writer. He is the Asia Editor of ''The Times'' of London, based in Tokyo, and is the author of the non-fiction books ''In the Time of Madness'', ''People Who Eat Darkness: Th ...

, ''In the Time of Madness'' *

Stevie Smith Florence Margaret Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), known as Stevie Smith, was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, '' Stevie'' by Hugh Whitemore, bas ...

, ''Pedalling to Hawaii''

Edward Stanford Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing award

A lifetime achievement award for travel writing. * 2024

Nicholas Crane Nicholas Crane (born 6 May 1954) is an English geographer, explorer, writer and broadcaster. Since 2004 he has written and presented four television series for BBC Two: ''Coast'', ''Great British Journeys'', '' Map Man'' and ''Town''. Early ...

* 2023

Tony Wheeler Tony Wheeler (born 20 December 1946) is an English-born Australian publishing entrepreneur, businessman and travel writer, co-founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook company with his wife, Maureen Wheeler. Wheeler was born in England. His fath ...

* 2022

Hilary Bradt Hilary Bradt Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 17 July 1941) is the founder of Bradt Travel Guides, a publisher which became an increasingly visible presence in the travel guide book world starting in the mid-1970s. From 1972, Bradt spent ...

* 2021

* 2020

* 2019

* 2018

Jan Morris Catharine Jan MorrisJan Morris, Paul Clements, University of Wales Press, 2008, p. 7 (born James Humphry Morris; 2 October 192620 November 2020) was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She was known particularly for the '' Pax Brita ...

* 2017 ''no award'' * 2016

Michael Palin Sir Michael Edward Palin (; born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group. He received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, BAFTA Fellowship in 2013 and was knig ...

* 2015

Bill Bryson William McGuire Bryson ( ; born 8 December 1951) is an American-British journalist and author. Bryson has written a number of nonfiction books on topics including travel, the English language, and science. Born in the United States, he has be ...

Fiction with a Sense of Place

* 2024

Abraham Verghese Abraham Verghese (born May 30, 1955) is a Malayali-American physician and author, who was born in Ethiopia. He is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair for the Theory & Practice of Medicine, and Intern ...

, ''

The Covenant of Water ''The Covenant of Water'' is a 2023 novel by physician and author Abraham Verghese. The book tells the story of a Malayali family living in southwest India, in the Kerala state, with the narrative spanning three generations, from 1900 to 1977. In ...

'' * 2023 ''no award'' * 2022 Leïla Slimani, (translated by Sam Taylor),''The Country of Others'' * 2021 ''no award'' * 2020

Nickolas Butler Nickolas Butler (born 1979) is an American novelist and short story author. He is the author of four novels: ''Shotgun Lovesongs'' (2014), ''The Hearts of Men'' (2017), Little Faith (2019), and ''Godspeed'' (2021). He also authored the short sto ...

, ''Little Faith'' * 2019 Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, ''House of Stone'' * 2018 Tristan Hughes, ''Hummingbird'' * 2017 ''no award'' * 2016

Madeleine Thien Madeleine Thien (; pinyin: Dèng Mǐnlíng; b. 1974) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. ''The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature'' has considered her work as reflecting the increasingly trans-cultural nature of Canadian literature ...

, ''Do Not Say We Have Nothing''

Children's Travel Book of the Year

*2024 Mya-Rose Craig, ''Flight: Explore the secret routes of the skies from a bird’s-eye view…'' *2023

Hannah Gold Hannah Gold is a British children's literature author who writes stories with nature themes. Gold worked in film and magazines before becoming a full-time writer. ''The Last Bear'' won the 2022 Waterstones Children's Book Prize. ''The Times'' cal ...

''The Lost Whale'' *2022 Zillah Bethell, ''The Shark Caller'' *2021 ''no award'' *2020 Chloe Daykin, ''Fire Girl, Forest Boy'' *2019 Alastair Humphreys, ''Alastair Humphreys' Great Adventurers'' *2018

Katherine Rundell Katherine Rundell (born 10 July 1987) is an English author and academic. She is the author of ''Impossible Creatures'', named Waterstones Book of the Year for 2023. She is also the author of ''Rooftoppers'', which in 2015 won both the overall ...

and illustrated by Hannah Horn, ''The Explorer'' *2017 ''no award'' *2016 Lucy Letherland, Rachel Williams & Emily Hawkins, ''Atlas of Animal Adventures''

Photographic Travel Book of the Year

*2024 ''no award'' *2023 ''no award'' *2022 Stuart Dunn, ''Only Us'' *2021 ''no award'' *2020 Sam Landers (Editor), Tom Maday (Editor) , ''Trope London''

Illustrated Travel Book of the Year

*2024 ''no award'' *2023 ''no award'' *2022 Matt Brown, Rhys B. Davies, illustrated by Mike Hall, ''Atlas of Imagined Places: From Lilliput to Gotham City'' *2021 ''no award'' *2020

Travis Elborough Travis Elborough (born 1971, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England) is the British author of ''The Bus We Loved: London's Affair With the Routemaster'' (Granta Books, 2005); ''The Long-Player Goodbye: The Album From vinyl To iPod And Back Again'' (S ...

, ''Atlas of Vanishing Places: The lost worlds as they were and as they are today''

Food & Drink Travel Book of the Year

*2024 ''no award'' *2023 ''no award'' *2022

Yasmin Khan Yasmin Cordery Khan is a British historian, novelist and broadcaster whose work focuses on the British Empire, Colonial India and the decolonisation of South Asia. She is a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford and Professor of Modern History base ...

, ''Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from the Eastern Mediterranean'' *2021 ''no award'' *2020 Eleanor Ford, ''Fire Islands'' *2019 Caroline Eden, ''Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light'' *2018 Bart van Olphen, ''Bart's Fish Tales'' *2017 ''no award'' *2016 Tessa Kiros, ''Provence to Pondicherry''

New Travel Writer of the Year

*2024 Sinean Callery *2023 Emma Willsteed, ''What Was Left Behind'' *2022 Ruth Cox, ''Ghar Ghosts'' *2021 Anita King, ''Hope in Pink Meringue'' *2020 Kirstin Zhang, ''Closer to Home'' *2019 Celia Dillow, ''Reflections of Dubai'' *2018

Alan Packer Alan may refer to: People *Alan (surname), an English and Kurdish surname *Alan (given name), an English given name **List of people with given name Alan ''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.'' *Al ...

, ''The Village Sledge Run'' *2017 ''no award'' *2016 Dom Tulett, ''The Tiger's Tail''

Photography & Illustrated Travel Book of the Year

: *2019

Huw Lewis-Jones Huw Lewis-Jones (born 2 May 1980) is a British historian, editor, broadcaster and art director. Formerly a historian and Curator of Art at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Lewis-Jones left Cambridge in June 2010 to pur ...

, ''The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands'' *2018 ''Londonist Mapped'' by AA Publishing *2017 ''no award'' *2016

Malachy Tallack Malachy Tallack (born 20 November 1980) is a Shetland singer-songwriter, journalist and author, who was born in England and moved to Shetland with his family when he was ten years old. He edited the magazine ''Shetland Life'', and founded the o ...

& Katie Scott, ''The Un-Discovered Islands''

Innovation in Travel Publishing

: *2016 James Cheshire & Oliver Uberti, ''Where the Animals Go''

Travel Memoir of the Year

: * 2020

Pico Iyer Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer (born 11 February 1957), known as Pico Iyer, is an English-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including ''Video Night in Kathman ...

, ''A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations'' * 2019 Guy Stagg, ''The Crossway''

Adventure Travel Book of the Year

: *2020 Lara Prior-Palmer, ''Rough Magic: Riding the World's Wildest Horse Race'' *2019 Adam Weymouth, ''Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North'' *2018 Morten Strøksnes, ''Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean'' *2017 ''no award'' *2016

Levison Wood Major Levison James Wood, , VR (born 5 May 1982) is a British Army officer and explorer. He is best known for his extended walking expeditions in Africa, Asia, and Central America. He has also undertaken numerous other overland journeys, inclu ...

, ''Walking the Himalayas''

Travel Blog of the Year

: *2019 ''no award'' *2018 Dave McClane
Man Vs Globe
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The Enjoyable Rut
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