We would like to congratulate Meriel Buxton, author of The High Flying Duchess (see left), who was awarded the "Winners of Winners" prize and Self Published Book of the Year at this year's David St John Thomas Charitable Trust self publishing awards.

"I thought you might be amused to know that the High-Flying Duchess has won a prize! James and I were invited to an awards ceremony in London and to our total amazement won (in horse show language!) not only the class but the championship! It won the David St John Thomas Charitable Trust Writing Awards Self Published Book of the Year for 2008 (following on from self published non-fiction book of the year) and I won the Winner of Winners prize. We came home with a silver cup, a shield and a cheque for an amazing £1,000! We made a point of telling everyone what a brilliant job you had all done, and owned up that the cover design was by you, John, and not my original draft! The production got a lot of admiration."
Best wishes, Meriel