Frances Lincoln wins at Garden Media Guild Awards

Inspirational Book of the Year

Winner: The Gardens of English Heritage by Gillian Mawrey and Linden Groves

Judges' comments: The winning book fulfils the criterion to inspire on many levels. It brings English Heritage’s gardens to the reader’s attention and explores their fascinating history through well-written, readable text and clever panels that the reader can dip in and out of. It’s well designed and good looking enough to grace any coffee table, with excellent photos. It brilliantly achieves a tricky job: to be a factual book about gardens and their history that’s also a great read.

Also listed as a Finalist:

Bark - An Intimate Look at the World's Trees by Cedric Pollet.

Book Photographer of the Year

Winner: Jerry Harpur for images in Ulf Nordfjell: Fourteen Gardens.

Judges' comments: All of the images in the winning entry were shot on film, and the judges felt that the resulting quality of the finished product, and the range of exposures that this medium allowed, shone through. They also liked the consistently good image composition, the attention to detail and good use of light.

Also listed as a Finalist:

Alex Ramsay for images in The Gardens of Japan and Italy’s Private Gardens: An Inside View.

Lifetime Achievement Award: Andrew Lawson

(Andrew's books for Frances Lincoln include The English Garden (text by Ursula Buchan), Designing Gardens by Arabella Lennox Boyd and two forthcoming books with Tim Richardson, Oxford College Gardens and The New English Garden.)