I’m thrilled to announce that Caroline Clough has won the Kelpies Prize 2010 with her book Red Fever. We announced the winner at an awards ceremony at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last night. The shortlisted authors had to travel from all over the country and Ritske Rensma (author of The Angel Ashariel) even flew [...]

August is here and Edinburgh is all set to become the city of festivals for a whole month. We’ve got the Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and best of all the Edinburgh International Book Festival! The Book Festival starts on Saturday 14th August and I can’t wait to go and see the famous authors [...]

Every year Floris Books runs the Kelpies Prize which asks would-be children’s authors to send us their unpublished books. We choose one lucky winner to have their book published and they a win √Ǭ£2000 cash prize! We are really excited because after months of reading through all the entries we can now announce the shortlist. [...]