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Flint Country – Category Winner in East Anglian Book Awards 2025

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I’m delighted to announce that Flint Country has won the the General Non-Fiction category for the 2025 East Anglian Book Awards. It was up against some very worthy opposition and I am thrilled that it has been chosen by the prize committee.

The 2025 category winners are:

  • Biography & Memoir: Named: A Story of Names and Reclaiming Who We Are by Camilla Balshaw (Bedford Square Publishers)
  • Debut Novel: Silver Harvest by Daryl Fraser (Story Machine)
  • History & Tradition: Finding the Wayfarer: Physical, Spiritual and Poetic Survival by Emma Rose Barber (Tandem Publishing)
  • Poetry: Buying the Farm by Eliza O’Toole (Shearsman Books)
  • Fiction: Florrie: A Football Love Story by Anna Trench (Jonathan Cape)
  • Children’s Books: Ghost Tide by Jim Cockin (Lightning Books)
  • General Non-Fiction: Flint Country: A Stone Journey by Laurence Mitchell (Saraband)
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Kashgar, Xinjiang, China 2001

I have made a few updates to East of Elveden recently so you might wish to take a look. The site is now thankfully ad-free, so the only thing I am promoting or trying to sell here here is my own work. There are now separate pages featuring my various Books and Other Writing, including links to reviews and purchase options (on East of Elveden banner above). There are also links to some of the places where my writing can be read for free online. Please have a look. Bear in mind that although links to a site named after a famous South American river might feature here, there is absolutely no compunction to buy from there – it is simply a useful link for reviews and for ‘read sample’ features.

The photograph above has absolutely no connection with the site update. It just makes me happy. It was taken in September 2001, a week or so before the events of the 11th of that month turned the world upside down. Besides, I can still recall the wonderful taste and smell of that still-warm bread.