Nickie Carpenter from the Essex School Library Service alerted us to the winner of the 2008 Essex Book Award, which has been awarded to Tim Lott for his thought-provoking novel Fearless

Tim, who is a well-known journalist and TV and radio critic, as well as an author, visited Essex School Library Service in May to collect his award and meet some of the pupils who voted his book a winner. The novel that deals with some difficult issues and took its author almost eight years to complete. He told his audience that it was ‘one of the most challenging things he had ever done’. Six novels were short listed for this year’s award and secondary pupils from across Essex voted ‘Fearless’ the outright winner.

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