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About the UK Christian Book Awards
Winners announced for the 2008 UK Christian Book Awards - The Awards Ceremony took place on 14th May at CRE in a high-profile event to promote the best in Christian publishing in the UK.
Now in its seventh year, the 2008 Awards ceremony was held on Wednesday, 14th May at the National Christian Resources Exhibition in Esher, Surrey and this year was supported by Adrian Plass – well known speaker and author of the million-selling Christian satirical title: Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass. (Adrian Plass will be the guest speaker at the literary luncheon following the Awards on that day, when all short-listed publishers will be invited to attend.)
The 2008 Awards had made a few changes since the last successful event when winners came from the three publishers: Continuum, Authentic and Breakout Publishing. First, there were three new categories for 2008:
- Biography. (Most challenging, life changing book.)
- Christian Living. (Most persuasive, revealing book.)
- Children’s. (Favourite children’s book for 0–15 yrs.)
And each of the three winning books have now been placed on the Speaking Volumes book list which will continue to boost the promotion and sales of the winning titles alongside other great Christian titles.
Each winning author will have been delighted to hear that the prize money was doubled to £1,000 in 2008. In addition, the winning authors received £300 worth of books to be donated to a library of their choice.
Adrian Plass said of the UK Christian Book Awards; ‘My passion is to communicate the need for reality in faith. And this is something I have in common with these Awards – we both want to speak to a wider audience than those already called to the Christian faith’.
The aim of the Awards – which are sponsored by Speaking Volumes – is to highlight and acknowledge titles that provide a Christian message that will be read by both a secular and Christian audience.
Paula Renouf, CEO of Speaking Volumes, the organisation sponsoring the Awards commented: ‘This event has become a great success, with ever increasing support from those involved in the publishing of Christian titles in the UK over the last few years. And we are planning for an even bigger and better event in 2008 which will give Christian publishing – and publishers – the added support they deserve.’
