The Book Drum Tournament is now closed

The Book Drum Tournament ran from 3 November 2009 to 28 February 2010.

Over 700 Contributors from 44 countries registered.  Seven of them will win a prize:

 1st Prize: £1,000

2nd Prize: £500

5 Runner-Up Prizes of £100

The Tournament will be judged by three outstanding authors:

Kate Williams
A renowned historian, Kate has written biographies of Queen Victoria, Becoming Queen (Hutchinson 2008) and Emma Hamilton, England's Mistress(Hutchinson 2006). Kate regularly appears on radio and TV, and writes for The Telegraph and The Independent. England’s Mistress is currently being d eveloped both as a movie and as a stage musical.

Sam Mills
Under various names, Sam has published eight novels, but she is best known for her edgy and thought-provoking Young Adult books: Blackout (Faber 2010), The Boys Who Saved the World (Faber 2007), and A Nicer Way to Die (Faber, 2006). The Boys who Saved the World, which tells the story of  a group of teenagers driven by their new cultish religion to kidnap a “terrorist” girl, is being developed as a movie.

Matthew Plampin
With a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, Matthew has always taken a strongly research-driven approach to his beautifully detailed historical novels.  The Street Philosopher (HarperCollins 2009) tells the story of a young journalist sent to cover the Crimean War in all its vivid brutality, while The Gun-Maker's Gift (HarperCollins 2010) is a tense novel of intrigue set in the new London pistol factory of Colonel Samuel Colt.

The results will be announced on 31 March.  Completed profiles will be published from 1 April.

Tournament Terms 

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