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Lucas takes travel prize
08.07.08 Anna Richardson
John Lucas has won this year's Authors’ Club Dolman Best Travel Book Award, beating Robert Macfarlane and Tim Butcher, among others.
Lucas won the prize for his 92 Acharnon Street, published by independent Eland Books. The other shortlisted titles were Macfarlane's The Wild Places (Granta), Butcher's Blood River (Chatto), Henry Hemming's Misadventure in the Middle East (Nicolas Brealey) and Christopher Robbins' In Search of Kazakhstan (Profile).
The prize was awarded yesterday (7th July) at the Authors' Club summer party.
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