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Prison Book Club win Prize

August 5, 2005 at 10:10pm

A Surrey prison has won an award for its book group but inmates have been stopped from taking up the prize of a visit to Edinburgh. Second prize winners, nine women from the Isle of Islay, instead claimed the all expenses-paid trip to the Edinburgh book festival.

Their books included Patrick Suskind's Perfume, about a psychopath. They also looked at Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mark Haddon's Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a light-hearted tale of a boy with autism. Rachel Seiffert's Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dark Room, which looks at the effects of World War II on Germany, was also among the titles studied. The group which came second is going to the Edinburgh Book Festival because obviously the prison group can't go

Award spokesman

One inmate from the High Down group, known as Jamie, said meeting Hornby for a reading session of his new book, A Long Way Down, was "incredible".

"We are delighted that the judges saw something appealing in our reading group."

Another inmate said the group was "a breath of fresh air, a monthly release when close to despair". The group also received £200 in book tokens, but will miss out on the main prize. Instead the Isle of Islay Book Group will attend a celebrity panel event and meet a Penguin author when they go to the festival.

A spokeswoman for the award said the women, from Port Ellen, were taking up the award because of the "exceptional circumstances".

"The group which came second is going to the Edinburgh Book Festival because obviously the prison group can't go."

Six groups were shortlisted for the prize, which is in its fourth year.



What can you say about this? I think it’s great news that prisons are educating inmates in this way, this is the way forward for prisons and prisoners will learn a lot from the type of books they read, and also it is, as was said, an apt release from a punishment that they no doubt rightly deserved. It’s sad that the inmates don’t get to receive their prize, but I suppose it’s fair enough – however you would have thought they would have gotten “something else” instead. Anyway this is a heart-warming story in it’s self, worthy of being put into words maybe!?

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Hello, the names Kevin Martin and i hale from that "not so fantastic" town of Llandrindod Wells. Decided to start a writing board to help gain experience and knowledge from other writers, over time it’s progressed to one of the greatest online communities ever. I play footy and work when I’m not on the forum writing, and enjoy all three to some exstent!

 

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