Richard Webster
Posted by News Editor
Friday, April 21, 2006

Among the six authors shortlisted for the 2005 Book Award for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing was Richard Webster for his book the Secret of Bryn Estyn - the making of a modern witch-hunt.

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The others were:

  • Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa by Ekow Eshun
  • Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew by Bernard Hare
  • Frontline: The True Story of the British Mavericks Who Changed the Face of War
  • Reporting by David Lyon
  • Moses, Citizen and Me by Delia Jarrett-Macauley
  • I Didn't Do it For You: How the World Betrayed a Poor African Nation by Michela Wrong.

The winner of the Book Award for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2005 was  Delia Jarrett-Macauley for her novel Moses, Citizen and Me, published by Granta.