'Following our Fathers' just missed being shortlisted for this prize. This is what the judges said of it:

“Linda Cracknell’s ‘Following our Fathers’ is a superb little book, wonderfully written and conveying vivid images. Short story author and creative writing tutor Cracknell describes two commemorative expeditions: the first a walk following the footsteps of the father of a Norwegian friend, as he flees from German forces to neutral Sweden in WWII; the second an attempt at an alpine climb after sketchy research revealed a possible ascent by her own, long-deceased father. Through these the participants create ‘their own pathways of personal meaning’. The draft of a full-length book, from which these two stories are taken, has already won an award, and we encourage the author to enter it for the Boardman-Tasker, when eventually published”.

Congratulations to Andy Kilpatrick who won this year with ‘Cold Wars – Climbing the fine line between risk and reality’.