Simon Trewin

Congratulations to my two authors who won prizes last night at separate ceremonies in London. Steven Hall picked up a Somerset Maugham prize at the annual Society Of Authors ceremony at the Great Hall in Barts for The Raw Shark Texts and Fiona Neil won ‘Most Loveable Heroine’ for Lucy Sweeny in The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy at the Melissa Nathan Award For Comedy Romance.The Melissa Nathan awards were created by Andrew Saffron in memory of his late wife, novelist Melissa Nathan. The Somerset Maugham is awarded to the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a book published in the past year. Also at the Society Of Authors bash two other United Agents authors picked up prizes - Thomas Leveritt won a Betty Trask Award for his novel The Exchange Rate Of Love with David Szalay winning the overall Trask Award for London and the South-East.